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“It Was Just an Accident” is a departure for Jafar Panahi—a thriller at times reminiscent of Scorsese. But instead of mobsters navigating the violent codes of the underworld, he gives us a cat-and-mouse struggle between former political prisoners and the intelligence apparatus of the state.
“Their point is not really to tell us things about the world so much as to change our ways of seeing it: throwing sudden light; showing up what is beneath the surface as if in an x-ray; making the familiar strange, stupid, often hideous.” Lorna Finlayson on the films of Frederick Wiseman:
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New online, Lorna Finlayson on “Juvenile Court” and why Frederick Wiseman’s harrowing filmmaking is so paradoxically enlivening:
New online, Mehrdad Babadi on Jafar Panahi’s uneasy, precise exploration of ethical impasse in “It Was Just an Accident”:
Introducing “Just Like Us,” a celebrity and online culture column by Grazie Sophia Christie for our Substack. First up, the Shakespearean twists and turns of Season Ten of Summer House:
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“It is interesting how an aberrant harshness often coexists with a rhetorical or official commitment to a special care and gentleness in dealings with children.”
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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).
The first Frederick Wiseman film I saw, and the one that remains my favorite so far (Wiseman made a lot of films, and I have yet to see more than a fraction of them), was his seventh: Juvenile Court.
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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).
The first Frederick Wiseman film I saw, and the one that remains my favorite so far (Wiseman made a lot of films, and I have yet to see more than a fraction of them), was his seventh: Juvenile Court.
“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:
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The first Frederick Wiseman film I saw, and the one that remains my favorite so far (Wiseman made a lot of films, and I have yet to see more than a fraction of them), was his seventh: Juvenile Court.
