The festival will also show three movies by Naderi, including “The Runner” (1984), “Harmonica” (1974), and “Waiting” (1974), ISNA reported. A pioneer of post-revolutionary Iranian cinema, Naderi, 78, ...

Amir Naderi is on the move. I connected with the Iranian filmmaker over WhatsApp on a chilly February morning, or at least morning where I am. He’s calling me from Rome, which is the second stop on ...

Iranian expatriate cineaste Amir Naderi returns to the desert in "Vegas: Based on a True Story," as a destructive force rips through a family in precarious remission from full-blown addiction. Iranian ...

Iranian film director Amir Naderi talks to Zar Amir Ebrahimi about his career in this documentary directed and produced by Ebrahimi and broadcast by BBC World Service and BBC Persian. Amir Naderi is ...

One of film’s most obvious functions is of establishing a record, serving an essential archival function of documenting times, lives, moments, and places. Two welcome, newly restored works screening ...

VENICE – U.S.-based Iranian auteur Amir Naderi (“The Runner”), who is a Venice fest aficionado, will shoot his first feature in Italian, titled “Mountain,” set in a semi-abandoned village at the ...

Veteran Iranian director Amir Naderi’s violent homage to Japanese cinema opens the Venice Film Festival’s edgy Orizzonti sidebar. By THR Staff Cut Film Still Venice Film Festival - H 2011 While never ...

In his dismissal of Abbas Kiarostami’s recent film “Ten,” movie pundit Roger Ebert criticized the revered Iranian director for making movies that exist solely for “film festivals, film critics and ...

Amir Naderi's 1984 "Bicycle Thief"-esque epic comes to Film Forum with a new restoration on October 28. Amir Naderi’s 1984 “The Runner” is often lauded as the first movie to emerge from ...

EXCLUSIVE: Magic Lantern is billed as a story of love, obsession and cinema and is the first LA-shot movie from influential Iranian filmmaker Amir Naderi. The official Venice Film Festival screening ...

Amir Naderi says the fact that he doesn’t speak any Japanese didn’t deter him from making his film “CUT” entirely in that language. While knowing the process would be somewhat difficult, Naderi felt ...

Iranian helmer Amir Naderi's ("The Runner") fascination with the perversities of American society finds new ground, literally, in "Vegas: Based on a True Story," a pointed moral tale about people who ...