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What makes The Lives of Others both powerful and deeply moving—above all else—is its form: a minimalist form that, within a minimalist content, conveys the terrifying brutality of totalitarianism in East Germany with exceptional subtlety.…

This film, which was originally intended to be directed by Fritz Lang, was eventually made by Robert Wiene due to various factors—chief among them, the specific historical moment and sociopolitical atmosphere in which it was produced and…

When Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans were first exhibited in 1962, they provoked ridicule and scandal rather than even distant admiration. The display seemed to speak more of a “non-art” than of any legitimate artistic expression. Yet…

Luchino Visconti was born into an aristocratic and highly cultured family in Italy and rose to become one of the country’s greatest filmmakers. In addition to his work in cinema, Visconti was also an accomplished musician, theatre director,…

If we consider Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, Octavio Paz, and many other writers within the magical realism tradition as echoes of early 20th-century visual arts in Latin America, then Fernando Botero must be seen not merely as…

Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) is, for many, most immediately recognized by his unparalleled film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Yet Kubrick should be regarded as a true genius in the realms of cinema and cinematic writing. A skilled…

​In the current difficult and complex situation, the result of a hundred years of accumulated errors (despite significant successes) in the pursuit of modernity, the talk everywhere is of "infiltration" and the "infiltrator." This refers to…

Before reducing the issue of supporting or opposing nuclear negotiations and cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency to an internal dispute between reformists and conservatives—or simplifying it into a binary opposition…

The far-right and extremist government of Benjamin Netanyahu has found itself in an unprecedented state of international isolation. The reasons for this are both clear and ongoing: 1. The continued genocide and war crimes in Gaza; 2.…

پیش از آنکه خواسته باشیم موضوع موافقت و مخالفت با مذاکرات هسته‌ای و همکاری با آژانس بین‌المللی کنترل هسته‌ای را به جدال داخلی اصلاح‌طلبان و اصول‌گرایان تقلیل دهیم، یا آن را لزوما به دوگانه‌ای قاطع میان موافقان و مخالفان حاکمیت کنونی در…