Tehran

This Is Not a Film: A Dispatch From an Iranian Dissident

Iranian Treasures: A Separation and Caspian Strike Gold

Memento Films InternationalDon't shut the door on this one.​ The Dinner: Fesenjan (and more!) at Caspian (1806 136th Place Northeast, Bellevue) The Movie: A Separation at the Egyptian (805 E Pine) The Screenplate: The Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film is usually a gimmie for nations like ... More >>

A Separation: The Oscar-Nominated Iranian Divorce Drama

Memento Films InternationalDon't shut the door on this one.​ The Dinner: Fesenjan (and more!) at Caspian (1806 136th Place Northeast, Bellevue) The Movie: A Separation at the Egyptian (805 E Pine) The Screenplate: The Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film is usually a gimmie for nations like ... More >>

Circumstance: Oppressed Women in Iran

Memento Films InternationalDon't shut the door on this one.​ The Dinner: Fesenjan (and more!) at Caspian (1806 136th Place Northeast, Bellevue) The Movie: A Separation at the Egyptian (805 E Pine) The Screenplate: The Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film is usually a gimmie for nations like ... More >>

Dorothy Parvaz, Al Jazeera Reporter and Former P-I Columnist, Missing in Syria/Iran (Now Freed)

​YET ANOTHER UPDATE: Dorothy "D" Parvaz has been released by the Iranian government. She showed up at Al Jazeera's headquarters in Qatar and will soon be coming back to Vancouver. Her fiance Todd Baker described receiving the news of her freedom as "unreal." More here.

Persepolis

​YET ANOTHER UPDATE: Dorothy "D" Parvaz has been released by the Iranian government. She showed up at Al Jazeera's headquarters in Qatar and will soon be coming back to Vancouver. Her fiance Todd Baker described receiving the news of her freedom as "unreal." More here.

SIFF Week 3: 30 New Picks & Pans

​YET ANOTHER UPDATE: Dorothy "D" Parvaz has been released by the Iranian government. She showed up at Al Jazeera's headquarters in Qatar and will soon be coming back to Vancouver. Her fiance Todd Baker described receiving the news of her freedom as "unreal." More here.

No One Knows About Persian Cats: Rebel Musicians in Tehran

​YET ANOTHER UPDATE: Dorothy "D" Parvaz has been released by the Iranian government. She showed up at Al Jazeera's headquarters in Qatar and will soon be coming back to Vancouver. Her fiance Todd Baker described receiving the news of her freedom as "unreal." More here.

Persepolis

​YET ANOTHER UPDATE: Dorothy "D" Parvaz has been released by the Iranian government. She showed up at Al Jazeera's headquarters in Qatar and will soon be coming back to Vancouver. Her fiance Todd Baker described receiving the news of her freedom as "unreal." More here.

Seattle Oscar Nominee in Trouble in Iran

Northwest filmmaker James Longley received an Academy Award nomination for his 2006 documentary Iraq in Fragments, which he rather courageously filmed during the early stages of the Iraq War. Now he's turned his camera to Iran, as he reports in the Huffington Post. Longley was detained by police in ... More >>

SIFF Review: Inju, the Beast in the Shadow

Tehran-born French writer-director Barbet Schroeder (Reversal of Fortune, Single White Female) introduced the screening of his latest by declaring, in a fromage-thick accent, this is "the movie of a film buff." He wasn't kidding. Shot mostly in Tokyo (which doubles for Kyoto), the artifice of genre ... More >>

Our Man in Cannes

Maybe some titles from the Cannes Film Festival, where SIFF's Carl Spence was shopping earlier this month, will show up at SIFF 2010. Or perhaps sooner in theaters. Regardless, here's our first dispatch from critic J. Hoberman: "It's been a blood-soaked first week at the Cannes Film Festival--at le ... More >>

The Weekly Wire: This Week's Notable Events

Maybe some titles from the Cannes Film Festival, where SIFF's Carl Spence was shopping earlier this month, will show up at SIFF 2010. Or perhaps sooner in theaters. Regardless, here's our first dispatch from critic J. Hoberman: "It's been a blood-soaked first week at the Cannes Film Festival--at le ... More >>

Azadeh Moaveni

Maybe some titles from the Cannes Film Festival, where SIFF's Carl Spence was shopping earlier this month, will show up at SIFF 2010. Or perhaps sooner in theaters. Regardless, here's our first dispatch from critic J. Hoberman: "It's been a blood-soaked first week at the Cannes Film Festival--at le ... More >>

Azar Nafisi

Maybe some titles from the Cannes Film Festival, where SIFF's Carl Spence was shopping earlier this month, will show up at SIFF 2010. Or perhaps sooner in theaters. Regardless, here's our first dispatch from critic J. Hoberman: "It's been a blood-soaked first week at the Cannes Film Festival--at le ... More >>

Last Night: A Few Highlights From First Thursday

Maybe some titles from the Cannes Film Festival, where SIFF's Carl Spence was shopping earlier this month, will show up at SIFF 2010. Or perhaps sooner in theaters. Regardless, here's our first dispatch from critic J. Hoberman: "It's been a blood-soaked first week at the Cannes Film Festival--at le ... More >>

Art at Bumbershoot: A Few Observances

Maybe some titles from the Cannes Film Festival, where SIFF's Carl Spence was shopping earlier this month, will show up at SIFF 2010. Or perhaps sooner in theaters. Regardless, here's our first dispatch from critic J. Hoberman: "It's been a blood-soaked first week at the Cannes Film Festival--at le ... More >>

Art at Bumbershoot: Go Today

Maybe some titles from the Cannes Film Festival, where SIFF's Carl Spence was shopping earlier this month, will show up at SIFF 2010. Or perhaps sooner in theaters. Regardless, here's our first dispatch from critic J. Hoberman: "It's been a blood-soaked first week at the Cannes Film Festival--at le ... More >>

Beck, STP, Neko Case, M. Ward Booked For Bumbershoot

Maybe some titles from the Cannes Film Festival, where SIFF's Carl Spence was shopping earlier this month, will show up at SIFF 2010. Or perhaps sooner in theaters. Regardless, here's our first dispatch from critic J. Hoberman: "It's been a blood-soaked first week at the Cannes Film Festival--at le ... More >>

Marjane Satrapi

Maybe some titles from the Cannes Film Festival, where SIFF's Carl Spence was shopping earlier this month, will show up at SIFF 2010. Or perhaps sooner in theaters. Regardless, here's our first dispatch from critic J. Hoberman: "It's been a blood-soaked first week at the Cannes Film Festival--at le ... More >>

The Willow Tree: Iranian Auteur Majid Majidi Turns to Grown-Ups

Maybe some titles from the Cannes Film Festival, where SIFF's Carl Spence was shopping earlier this month, will show up at SIFF 2010. Or perhaps sooner in theaters. Regardless, here's our first dispatch from critic J. Hoberman: "It's been a blood-soaked first week at the Cannes Film Festival--at le ... More >>

Persepolis: Abba Versus the Mullahs!

Maybe some titles from the Cannes Film Festival, where SIFF's Carl Spence was shopping earlier this month, will show up at SIFF 2010. Or perhaps sooner in theaters. Regardless, here's our first dispatch from critic J. Hoberman: "It's been a blood-soaked first week at the Cannes Film Festival--at le ... More >>

Offside: Iranian Women Fight for Their Right to Soccer Fandom

Maybe some titles from the Cannes Film Festival, where SIFF's Carl Spence was shopping earlier this month, will show up at SIFF 2010. Or perhaps sooner in theaters. Regardless, here's our first dispatch from critic J. Hoberman: "It's been a blood-soaked first week at the Cannes Film Festival--at le ... More >>

Filmmaker in Exile

A director explains how she escaped Iran to screen her first movie at Bumbershoot.

Bookda Gheisar

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March 15-22, 2006

This week's specialty screenings and venues.

The Elephant Turf War

"...[P]eople are not inspired by seeing unhealthy, neurotic elephants in tiny zoo enclosures."

Mesdames Ambassadors

Two very rich Eastside Republican donors are suddenly faces of America abroad.

A War on Iran

With dreams of remaking the Middle East, it just might be too much of a honey pot for Bush's hawkish neocons to resist.

Books Calendar

With dreams of remaking the Middle East, it just might be too much of a honey pot for Bush's hawkish neocons to resist.

Lies Per Gallon

The damning petro-thriller Syriana rambles like an SUV on a Sunday drive.

This Week's Reads

D.B., The Dog Walker, and How Soccer Explains the World.

This Week's Attractions

D.B., The Dog Walker, and How Soccer Explains the World.

Remembrance of Meals Past

Kolbeh evokes the cuisine of Persia.

Behind the Bombs

A volatile region is better understood through some valuable films.

Arts Picks

A volatile region is better understood through some valuable films.

House of Sand and Fog

Stubbornness and pride tear apart the American Dream for prideful immigrant and blue-collar deadbeat.

This Week's Reads

Mark Lee, Marjane Satrapi, Ariel Gore, and Patricia McConnell.

This Week's Reads

Azar Nafisi, Bill McKibben, Robert Stone, Lindsay Grehsam & Spain Rodriguez, and William E. Jarvis.

Please Bomb Seattle

Azar Nafisi, Bill McKibben, Robert Stone, Lindsay Grehsam & Spain Rodriguez, and William E. Jarvis.

Love and Mortar

A simple, powerful tale of adolescents in Iran.

The hot spot

Middle Eastern directors delve beneath the headlines.

Close-up

Middle Eastern directors delve beneath the headlines.

2001'S 10 Best

Year-end tally strives to resist Oscar^®-marketing juggernaut.

The Rest of the Stories

Web sources for what's missing from network news.

Sons and lovers

When maternal love is all the affection a woman's permitted.

On hold

Only connect—but with what?

The Color of Paradise

A waif out of Dickens, a moral from the Koran.

Skin of dreams

You won't believe the layers of reality, fantasy, and presentation in this one.

Venus Envy

Some timely, surprising tonics to the rescue.