Author Michelle Langford

Volume 1: The Artisanal Era, 1897–1941 and Volume 2: The Industrializing Years, 1941–1978 As I turn over the last page of volume two of Hamid Naficy’s A Social History of Iranian Cinema, I hunger for more a...

The inaugural Iranian Film Festival Australia kicked off in Brisbane on 4 August 2011 in spectacular fashion with a sell-out screening of Asghar Farhadi’s acclaimed new film Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (A Separatio...

1-11 February 2007 In the year 2000, Hamid Dabashi provided an overview of the state of Iranian cinema. That year, according to Dabashi, heralded the rise of a young generation of filmmakers spearheaded ...

(Melbourne: Damned Publishing, 2003) In her introduction to Womenvision, the editor Lisa French pays homage to an event that took place in Sydney in 1973, an event from which this book takes its name. French...

b. February 14, 1932, Halberstadt, Germany filmography bibliography web resources In February 1982 Rainer Werner Fassbinder wrote a short article for Berlinaletip, a special issue of the weekly Berl...

b. April 7, 1945, Georgenthal, Thuringia, Germany d. April 12, 2010, Hesse, Germany filmography bibliography web resources Thomas Elsaesser once described Werner Schroeter as “the German cinema's g...

Iranian-American director Shokrian mixes popular culture and politics in America So Beautiful to explore the experiences of immigrant Iranians in LA, circa 1979.