Abbas Kiarostami

The Sound of Violence: Making Movies and Going Mad In Berberian Sound Studio

Kiarostami In Exile

The great Iranian director lost a home but gained a planet

'Like Someone In Love': In the Realm of the Senses

Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami's audacious romance

[Year In Film] Looking Back On a Decade Dominated by Movie Franchises, Our Critics Pick Nine Faves

UCI Fall Film Program Hosts Pedro Costa, Tsai Ming-Liang, Stanley Kubrick, Yes Men, Kirby Dick and Closeted Gay Politicians

Kirby Dick is coming to Irvine to screen "Outrage," his documentary on closeted gay politicians.​UC Irvine's Film and Video Center was late in releasing details of its fall program because the FVC's tiny and tireless staff was unsure whether there would even be a program. (Thank you, UC system acr ... More >>

The Two Faces of Cannes: Gilles Jacob

Eye of the storm

Goal(s)!

Banned in his home country, as usual, Iranian Jafar Panahi scores with his sports movie Offside as social commentary

Back to the Garden

The suffocating beauty of Terrence Malicks earthy New World

Under the Skin of the Country

2 Los Angeles film showcases lift the veil on Iranian society at the dawn of a new cultural conservatism

Dead Director Rises Again

George Romero on zombies, politics and his own second coming

On the Margins of the Middle East

The non-persons of Crimson Gold

The Matrix Recycled

The more the murkier in Revolutions