The Political Life and Times of Mosen Makhmalbaf
There is also an excellent article on Makhmalbaf’s life and cinema in the latest Cineaste. A highpoint of the essay is the way The Cyclist, which has long been one of my favorite films, is posed as a transitional film. Both formally and biographically, one can see Makhmalbaf caught between dialectics of past and present, faithfulness and criticism, hope and exhaustion in almost every frame of The Cyclist. From there, it is handy to see the way his cinema developed. Here... Read More
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