The Film Sufi

Musical theater has a long and varied history, but for many people its surge in the US after WWII  seemed to suggest almost a new art for...

Asghar Farhadi’s second feature film, Beautiful City ( Shahr-e-Ziba , 2004), was a demonstration that the youthful writer-director’s ci...

Famed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s difficult circumstances are mostly well known.  Following the notorious Iranian 2009 Presidential...

In the early 1950s the great writer-director Kenji Mizoguchi converted to Buddhism and then made three successive critically acclaimed m...