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HOLDING TO OUR HUMANITY IN INHUMAN TIME
“Wake Up Dead Man,” a movie by Rian Johnson and “It Was Only an Accident,” a movie by Jafar Panahi We are just back from the Boston area, where we walked where some of my ancestors walked, explored places we had long heard about but never visited, had thanksgiving dinner with friends, and attended the…
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NO BEARS (2022)
Directed by Jafar Panahi (Iran) In 2010, Jafar Panahi was arrested in Iran on charges of disseminating antigovernment propaganda. Part of the Iranian New Wave and already well-known in the West, Panahi was convicted, put under house arrest, and forbidden to make movies or to leave the country for twenty years. In the thirteen years…