# asghar farhadi (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover asghar farhadi. Page: Feed: --- ## [How ‘The Magic Faraway Tree’ Embraced Its Dated Source Material to Deliver a Humble Yet Epic Adaptation](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/magic-faraway-tree-movie-potential-sequel-andrew-garfield-1236677441/) _2026-08-21 · Lexy Perez · Movie Features | Hollywood Reporter_ Director Ben Gregor and writer Simon Farnaby talk navigating cultural nostalgia while modernizing Enid Blyton’s beloved British children's books, building their “Blytopia,” and the potential for sequels with Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy. ## [‘The Last Sunrise’ Star Maia Reficco Is Finally Facing Her Fears](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/maia-reficco-the-last-sunrise-new-music-interview-1236677491/) _2026-08-21 · Carly Thomas · Movie Features | Hollywood Reporter_ The American-Argentine actress and singer is showing a whole new side of herself with her starring role in Prime Video's coming-of-age romance film and her new music: "I've kind of let go of all of those fears and understood that I need to go full force or don't go at all." ## [Georgian Director Ana Urushadze on Making Her Sarajevo Competition Film Before “A Dead-End Situation” Got Worse](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/ana-urushadze-supporting-role-georgia-sarajevo-film-1236677153/) _2026-08-19 · Lily Ford · Movie Features | Hollywood Reporter_ ‘Supporting Role,’ about a fading actor’s odyssey through Tbilisi, made it out just before industry censorship protests and a boycott of the state funding agency intensified: "I don't want to stop doing what I love." ## [Dina Duma’s ‘Skateboarding Is Not for Girls’ Is About Much More Than Just Skateboarding](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/dina-duma-skateboarding-is-not-for-girls-film-sarajevo-fest-1236676894/) _2026-08-19 · Lily Ford · Movie Features | Hollywood Reporter_ The Sarajevo Film Festival competition title follows fatherless 11-year-old Adela, whose life is turned upside down when her sister is forced to have an arranged marriage: "Even when you don't see the man, you can feel the patriarchy." ## [Why Emily Watson Will Never Quit Sarajevo Film Festival](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/emily-watson-sarajevo-film-festival-jury-president-award-1236676828/) _2026-08-19 · Lily Ford · Movie Features | Hollywood Reporter_ This year's jury president and Honorary Heart recipient opens up about her decades-long devotion to the Bosnian festival: "It's \[about\] resistance, survival... Rather than a whole load of cynical sales agents." ## [Sandra Wollner and ‘Everytime’ Hit Sarajevo on the Festival Circuit: “You Can Feel the History Here”](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/sandra-wollner-everytime-sarajevo-film-festival-competition-1236676154/) _2026-08-19 · Lily Ford · Movie Features | Hollywood Reporter_ The Austrian filmmaker also touches on possibly casting a Hollywood name and why she is pragmatic about the future of European cinema: "I don’t think culture is an 'added value,' a kind of luxury item. It’s part of how a society understands itself." ## [“I Don’t Believe Cinema Is Dying”: Asghar Farhadi on War, Hope and Receiving Sarajevo’s Most Prestigious Honor](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/asghar-farhadi-director-film-war-iran-sarajevo-interview-1236675940/) _2026-08-18 · Lily Ford · Movie Features | Hollywood Reporter_ The Oscar winner talks to The Hollywood Reporter at the Sarajevo Film Festival about his next film – and why the people of his native Iran deserve more than conflict: "I love them, I love that culture." ## [What Alia Shawkat Wants For Female Filmmakers](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/alia-shawkat-the-wrong-girls-actors-dont-work-female-filmmakers-1236673953/) _2026-08-17 · Seija Rankin · Movie Features | Hollywood Reporter_ The star of Dylan Meyer's 'The Wrong Girls' on starring in the first female-fronted stoner comedy, learning to look at award season differently, and why she thinks Kelly Reichardt should be as famous as Paul Thomas Anderson. ## [“It Was a Bumpy Ride!”: Jack Rowan and Director Kieron J. Walsh on the Many Lives of Head-Bopping, Troubles-Set ‘Skintown’](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/jack-rowan-kieron-j-walsh-interview-skintown-film-edinburgh-1236670964/) _2026-08-16 · Lily Ford · Movie Features | Hollywood Reporter_ The English actor and Irish filmmaker arrive at Edinburgh Film Festival with one of the most raucous indies of the year, backdropped by '90s rave culture and war-weary Northern Ireland: "It's not really been recorded — what it was like for young people to grow up there." ## [‘Mission’ Stars George MacKay and Rosy McEwen on Capitalism, Creative Freedom and the Eternal Allure of British Independent Film](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/george-mackay-rosy-mcewen-mission-paul-wright-edinburgh-1236670925/) _2026-08-15 · Lily Ford · Movie Features | Hollywood Reporter_ The English actors have big-budget studio projects on their slate — including 'Sense and Sensibility,' 'Scarpetta' and the 'Ocean's Eleven' prequel — so what tempted them onto Paul Wright's Edinburgh-premiering indie? ## [Retro Grid Dungeon Crawler (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Rr67DW8GTL3o) _2026-08-15 · **Sponsored**_ Retro grid movement with first-person combat, loot and skill-tree progression. ## [“I’ve Disobeyed the Film God Laws”: Lindsey Ryan on Shooting Her Debut Feature at Sea, With Kids, a Boat and a Hamster](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/lindsey-ryan-capsized-edinburgh-rhys-ifans-lily-rabe-film-1236670841/) _2026-08-15 · Lily Ford · Movie Features | Hollywood Reporter_ THR can unveil exclusive stills from the Rhys Ifans and Lily Rabe-starrer, set to make waves in competition at Edinburgh Film Festival. ## [Michael Sheen and Director Simon Ryninks Reveal Their Personal Connections to Welsh Sci-Fi Caper ‘Out There’: “This Really Pushed Buttons for Me”](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/michael-sheen-out-there-film-wales-ufo-edinburgh-festival-1236670866/) _2026-08-14 · Lily Ford · Movie Features | Hollywood Reporter_ "I spent a year praying he would say yes, like a UFO believer," said Ryninks on tempting the Hollywood star aboard his Edinburgh-premiering feature. "I just had faith that he was out there, waiting for contact." ## [Cinema Obscura: "Vento del Sud" aka "South Wind"](http://itsamadmadblog2.blogspot.com/2026/04/cinema-obscura-vento-del-sud-aka-south.html) _2026-04-02 · Joe Baker · itsamadmadblog_ Corruption of the innocent. That's the central theme of director Enzo Provenzale's "South Wind" when a young man (a very good Renato Salvatori), bound by his obligation to the mafia, decides to shirk his duties and go on the run. Caught up in her own desire to leave an oppressive family, Grazia (Claudia Cardinale) joins him and the two set off into the humid Italian landscape. As an early vehicle… ## [Discoveries of 2025](http://itsamadmadblog2.blogspot.com/2026/01/discoveries-of-2025.html) _2026-01-26 · Joe Baker · itsamadmadblog_ 12. Lost in New York (1989), directed by Jean Rollin Jean Rollin’s films are often brilliant bursts of gallic, gothic horror. Then there’s his pornographic phase. “Lost in New York” falls into his late career period where he’s sort of abandoned logic even further, embraced more digital filmmaking, and built on ideas of the past. Bodies in motion….. silent trespass across graveyards and castle… ## [Discoveries of 2025](https://itsamadmadblog2.blogspot.com/2026/01/discoveries-of-2025.html) _2026-01-26 · Joe Baker · itsamadmadblog_ 12. Lost in New York (1989), directed by Jean Rollin Jean Rollin’s films are often brilliant bursts of gallic, gothic horror. Then there’s his pornographic phase. “Lost in New York” falls into his late career period where he’s sort of abandoned logic even further, embraced more digital filmmaking, and built on ideas of the past. Bodies in motion….. silent trespass across graveyards and castle… ## [70's Bonanza: "Death of a Corrupt Man"](http://itsamadmadblog2.blogspot.com/2025/07/70s-bonanza-death-of-corrupt-man.html) _2025-07-24 · Joe Baker · itsamadmadblog_ "He votes against long hair, porn, and abortions. But not arms dealing." French politicians of the 1970's in Georges Lautner's wonderful "Death of a Corrupt Man" haven't changed their stripes from global democracy of today, apparently. One of the best of the 70's French paranoid thrillers that stars two of my favorite actors, Alain Delon and Ornella Muti and just drips with corruption behind every… ## [The Last Few Films I've Seen, early summer edition](http://itsamadmadblog2.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-last-few-films-ive-seen-early.html) _2025-06-20 · Joe Baker · itsamadmadblog_ 1. The Net (2003) - Getting past that early aughts digital video essay vibe (done much more propulsively by Adam Curtis) is just one of the overwrought obstacles in Lutz Dammbeck's spiral into the birth of computers, CIA-LSD experimentation, and the vengeful bombing borne from Ted Kaczynski's paranoid beliefs. But, forgiving "The Net's" time and visual limitations, I still became frustrated with… ## [70's Bonanza: "I Guappi" aka "Blood Brothers"](http://itsamadmadblog2.blogspot.com/2025/04/70s-bonanza-i-guappi-aka-blood-brothers.html) _2025-04-14 · Joe Baker · itsamadmadblog_ Pasquale Squiteri's "I Guappi" reveals the inauspicious entanglement of the Mafia with everyday life in nineteenth century Italy during a pivotal scene. Newcomer in town Nicola (Franco Nero), after quarreling with local Don Guatano (Fabio Testi), soon earns his trust and becomes inducted into the Cosa Nostra with a familiar ceremony that includes the pricking of fingers and solemn words. What… ## [The Current Cinema 25.1](http://itsamadmadblog2.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-current-cinema-251.html) _2025-03-25 · Joe Baker · itsamadmadblog_ Parthenope Paolo Sorrentino's latest film, "Parthenope", features so many of his affectations that mar some of his previous work. It's messy at times. Its emotions are scattershot. And it's framed and stylized like an aue du cologne commercial. All of these things are exactly why I love it so. It's messy and busting at the seams with snippets of life. Its emotions are tonally divergent (sometimes… ## [The Best Non 2024 Films I Saw in 2024](http://itsamadmadblog2.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-best-non-2024-films-i-saw-in-2024.html) _2025-01-02 · Joe Baker · itsamadmadblog_ 12. First Love (1978), directed by Dino Risi - I've seen a few Dino Risi films this year (mostly for the captivatingly beautiful Ornella Muti) and all I can say is that Italian sex fare has no business looking this good. Through a succession of accomplished cinematographers, including Tonino Delli Colli on this film), Risi's films take queasy romantics about the possession of a young Muti… ## [Find what they just said (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/18ZMeyP41qWA) _2025-01-02 · **Sponsored**_ Surface recent public signals so you can send policy-aware, relevant outreach ## [The Current Cinema 24.5](http://itsamadmadblog2.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-current-cinema-245.html) _2024-12-16 · Joe Baker · itsamadmadblog_ The Remarkable Life of Ibelin I never played World of Warcraft, but as someone who grew up alongside the burgeoning Internet, the idea of a faceless community turning into a curated online family is something I certainly experienced. Hours of my teenage life were spent making friends through various chat rooms and online message boards where the words (and subtle meanings expressed behind them)… ## [The Current Cinema 24.4](http://itsamadmadblog2.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-current-cinema-244.html) _2024-11-20 · Joe Baker · itsamadmadblog_ Anora For all its anxiety inducing set pieces, the most masterful thing about Sean Baker's electric "Anora" is that all the controlled chaos only makes the quiet, reflective moments that much more powerful. As the title character, Mikey Madison gives a ferociously alive portrayal of a woman caught up in a spiral of very messed-up hide and seek when her newlywed Russian husband goes missing, and…