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In Taxi (2015), Jafar Panahi stages a brief but haunting moment that, in retrospect, feels like the seed of his most recent film, It Was Just an Accident(2025).
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In Taxi (2015), Jafar Panahi stages a brief but haunting moment that, in retrospect, feels like the seed of his most recent film, It Was Just an Accident(2025).
After my parents divorced, my dad started his own advertising agency in Manhattan and determined that his efforts to woo clients would be immeasurably enhanced […]
“I enjoy watching games with my family so much that I sometimes get depressed even after a win. I feel suddenly adrift, my adrenaline dissipating as I return to my dull life. What is there now, I wonder, to be excited about?”
New on Forms of Life, Tim Aubry on family life with the Knicks:
After my parents divorced, my dad started his own advertising agency in Manhattan and determined that his efforts to woo clients would be immeasurably enhanced […]
