formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
Panahi has endured years of harassment from the Iranian authorities but has created a tremendous body of work; his Palme d’Or is richly deserved. Source: Jafar Panahi’s Cannes victory is a wonderful moment for an amazingly courageous film-maker | Film … Continued
The German-French documentarian, who fled the Nazis twice as a child, spent his career exploring wartime atrocities and conflicts around the world. Source: Marcel Ophuls, Oscar-winning film-maker of The Sorrow and the Pity, dies aged 97 | Film | The … Continued
The Criterion Closet has become a significant piece of social media content produced by the globally known Blu-ray label, The Criterion Collection. Film lovers yearn for a chance to stand in that space, surrounded by the movies that ooze pure … Continued
Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has previously been put in prison and banned from film-making in his home country, spoke out against the restrictions of the regime after winning the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Source: Cannes: Iranian … Continued
The death of the esteemed black-and-white photographer leaves behind a rich library of over 500,000 images showing Earth in all its beauty and darkness. Source: Sebastião Salgado captured the world like no other photographer | Sebastião Salgado | The Guardian
There is something ineffable about Key’s comedic presence – even a legend like Steve Coogan has admitted that upon meeting his future co-star he struggled to work out “why what he was doing was funny”. While the Partridge gig did … Continued