The Salesman, 2016. Directed by Asghar Farhadi. Starring Taraneh Alidoost, Shahab Hosseini, Farid Sajjadi Hosseini, and Babak Karimi. SYNOPSIS: In modern-day Iran, a teacher and his wife are preparing for the opening night of their amateur production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. But work on an adjacent building makes their own apartment block […]
Oscars: And the winners of the 89th Academy Awards are…
Let’s address the elephant in the room: there was Steve Harvey-reminiscent chaos last night during the Best Picture announcement at the Academy Awards as La La Land was somehow announced as receiving the Oscar… only for producer Jordan Horowitz to correct the mistake midway through his acceptance speech when he revealed that Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight […]
Nine films remain in contention for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
As the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gears up to announce the nominations for the 89th Academy Awards next month, it has been announced that nine films remain in contention for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Australia, “Tanna,” Bentley Dean, Martin Butler Canada, “It’s Only the End of the World,” Xavier […]
Watch the trailer for acclaimed Iranian drama The Salesman
A trailer has arrived online for writer-director Asghar Farhadi’s acclaimed drama The Salesman. , which won Best Screenplay (Farhadi) and Best Actor (Shahab Hosseini) at Cannes and has been selected as the Iranian submission in the Best Foreign Language Film category for the 89th Academy Awards; watch it below after the official synopsis… Forced out of their apartment […]