The Film Sufi

Satyajit Ray’s , The Home and the World ( Ghare Baire , 1984) has the distinctive quality, reminiscent of his earlier The Chess Players (...

After rounding out his famous “Dollars”,  (aka “Man With No Name”) trilogy – A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965)...

When I first heard about Bahman Ghobadi’s No One Knows About Persian Cats ( Kasi az Gorbehaye Irani Khabar Nadareh , 2009), I understoo...

Salma and the Apple ( Sib o Salma , 2011), a recent film by Iranian director Habibollah Bahmani , not only has the look and feel of a mo...