Special screening of Abbas Kiarostami’s THE TRAVELLER (1974)

This Bank Holiday Monday, 29th May 2017, we have a real treat in Cambridge. The Arts Picturehouse cinema, in conjunction with ourscreen.com, is presenting a screening of THE TRAVELLER, the debut feature of the great Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami. The event will take place at 9 pm and tickets are only £5. Ehsan Khoshbakht, the film critic …

Mania Akbari and some special Cambridge screenings

There is a scene in the film ONE.TWO.ONE which is so brilliant in its conception and execution that it takes my breath away. I wish that every film student would carefully examine its construction and try to understand how an apparently simple static camera shot can be so richly textured, so simple yet full of elegance and poetry. Mark Cousins …

More on A Separation winning an Oscar…

A previous post concerned itself with the possible wider effects arising from Iranian film A Separation winning an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language category. The main argument I was exploring is forcefully set out in this article from The Independent by Catherine Butler, titled: 'See this film and then say that bombing Iran is …

Oh, yes, the Oscars…

That there is a category for Foreign Language Film tells you everything you need to know about the Oscars. Still, a few things about this year's cinematic fashion show have managed to get past my old codger's cynicism... I'm pleased that The Artist and Hugo have done well. I love the former and I hear …