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Prisoner and prison guard: Jafar Panahi's empathetic vision of cinema
2+ week, 5+ day ago (510+ words)Prisoner and prison guard: Jafar Panahi's empathetic vision of cinema'Business Standard...and, in fact, there is no difference between the prisoner and the prison guard." Panahi, of course, has considerable experience as a prisoner Since his third feature film,…...
‘Hostage’: Eli Sharabi’s Unflinching Account of Captivity, Loss and Survival
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (788+ words) From the very beginning, readers carry a devastating knowledge that Sharabi himself did not have while he was in captivity: that his wife and two daughters were murdered in Kibbutz Be'eri on the day he was abducted. That painful gap…...
What a Gripping BBC Drama Gets Wrong About Tehran Prison Life
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (362+ words) Review: What a Gripping BBC Drama Gets Wrong About Tehran Prison Life Get audio access with...interactions with Iran's feared Revolutionary Guard, Zaghari-Ratcliffe stares down her captors. At the beginning...honesty?" It was both surreal and confronting to see Nazanin…...
Talla’s Overbooked: ‘The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)’ by Rabih Alameddine
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (695+ words) New Yorkers are fed up with ICE's response to immigrant communities Mamdani signs executive order to cut fees for small NYC businesses Home Depot brings back in-person work Don Lemon arrested, released after covering Los Angeles anti-ICE protest Federal judge…...
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine: A deeply human novel of reckoning and love
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (397+ words) I was overwhelmed with the ignominy of living Lebanese," says Raja, the main character in Rabih Alameddine's seventh novel, the day after the 2020 Beirut port explosion. Raja has a sweeping brush in ... The True True Story of Raja the Gullible…...
The Prisoning: Fletcher's Quest Review - Review
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (934+ words) The Prisoning: Fletcher's Quest (Switch) Review'Nintendo World Report The Prisoning: Fletcher's Quest (Switch) Review by Joel A. DeWitte - February 9, 2026, 9:32 am EST Therapy in Metroidvania Form Self-expression is at the core of all good art, capturing the raw emotion at the sum…...
Mahnaz Mohammadi on Depicting Iran’s Evin Prison in Berlin Film ‘Roya’: ‘You Have to Tell the Story Through the Displacement, Silence and Rupture’
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (280+ words) The dissident director discusses the choices she made in depicting Iran's notorious prison for political prisoners and intellectuals where she spent time behind bars Dissident Iranian filmmaker Mahnaz Mohammadi " known internationally for works such as "Women Without Shadows," "Travelogue" and…...
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine review – drag fabulousness in war-torn Beirut
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (232+ words) Spanning eras of conflict and Covid in Lebanon, this irresistible queer coming-of-age tale explores what it means to be truly free The banking collapse and the Covid'pandemic are both played as comedies. The former sees an outraged Zalfa taking to…...
The power of enduring love is at the heart of true-life drama ‘Prisoner 951’
4+ week, 1+ day ago (996+ words) Narges Rashidi and Joseph Fiennes in "Prisoner 951'. Credit: BBC / Dancing Ledge Narges...emotionally challenging role she's ever played: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian citizen who was imprisoned...state for six years. The extraordinary story of Nazanin, the stark reality of…...
Jafar Panahi’s Scenes From a Crime
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (138+ words) Jafar Panahi's dissident films. His films show how a regime's wrongdoing can upend one's sense of self and transform the very rhythm of daily life. Alex Kong is'a PhD student in English at Yale University.' A new set of note…...