The Film Sufi

At first The Pear Tree ( Derakht-e Golabi , 1998) seems more like a contemplative meditation than a story.  There doesn’t seem to be a c...

Mohammad Rasoulof ’s second feature film, Iron Island ( Jazireh Ahani , 2005) was a bold and creative offering even for the Iranian film c...

Films of Tom Hooper: The King's Speech - Tom Hooper (2010)  Les Miserables - Tom Hooper (2012) 

A few moments of grace can profoundly change one's life, making the entire world look different. This is perhaps the key theme of Vic...

Josef von Sternberg’s first big commercial success was the silent movie Underworld (1927), which is considered to have launched the gan...