Tag Archives: Leila Hatami

For International Women’s Day: Ladies I Love

Posted on March 8, 2025 by sheila

I post edited versions of this every year. I add names. I take names off if I feel like it. I enjoy compiling it. It’s not just about enjoyment. As women’s rights are up for grabs more than ever, like … Continue reading →

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Film Forum: Jafar Panahi’s This Is Not a Film

Posted on February 29, 2012 by sheila

Imprisoned Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s This Is Not a Film opens at the New York’s Film Forum today and runs through March 13. I put it on my Top 10 list for the year. There is nothing happening in the … Continue reading →

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NYFF 2011: A Separation: Separation? More Like a Giant Abyss

Posted on September 30, 2011 by sheila

From director Asghar Farhadi (I was in love with his Fireworks Wednesday from 2007) comes another tense devastating drama. Not to be missed. I was a wreck by the end of it. Definitely one of the best films of the … Continue reading →

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NYFF 2011: Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation

Posted on September 30, 2011 by sheila

Originally published at Capital New York, for my coverage of the 2011 New York Film Festival The events in Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation, winner of the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, unfold with chaos and yet inevitability, … Continue reading →

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Shirin (2008); Dir. Abbas Kiarostami

Posted on August 26, 2010 by sheila

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in the consulate. The man with the candy will lead the children into the sea. The naked woman on the ledge outside the window on the sixteenth floor … Continue reading →

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Leila: A Movie Within a Movie

Posted on July 19, 2010 by sheila

I love it when people in movies watch movies. I can think of many other favorite scenes, of characters watching a movie while in a movie (there was a very funny and moving scene in the recent 500 Days of … Continue reading →

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Deserted Station (2002); Dir. Alireza Raisian

Posted on April 14, 2008 by sheila

Deserted Station is a haunting quiet (at times too quiet) film based on a story by Iranian great Abbas Kiarostami, and directed by Alireza Raisian, it tells the story of a husband and wife (the wife is played by the … Continue reading →

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Leila (1996); Dir. Dariush Mehrjui: Marriage and Infertility In Modern-Day Iran

Posted on April 6, 2008 by sheila

Dariush Mehrjui, director of Leila, is a figure who embodies the entire 20th journey of Iranian film. Check out his stunning bio here. His films have often been festival favorites, garnering great international acclaim. His journey as a film-maker is … Continue reading →

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