Bijan Zadeh

Bijan Zadeh

Favorite films

  • Heat
  • Punch-Drunk Love
  • La Haine
  • Wild at Heart

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  • The Truman Show

    ★★★★

  • Universal Language

    ★★★★★

  • Special Section

    ★★★★½

  • Taste of Cherry

    ★★★★★

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  • The Truman Show

    The Truman Show

    ★★★★

    back in high school and before spotify i used to go on youtube and play the ending scene on repeat just to hear this song and have a good cry. suffice to say that scene still hits even after all these years. this movie also introduced me to philip glass, so there’s that too.

  • Universal Language

    Universal Language

    ★★★★★

    i can’t believe that a white man from winnipeg was able to put me in my feels about my heritage and bring me to tears with a poetic film about belonging and the human connection. a true student of the kanoon movement, kiarostami and company would be proud to know their influence is alive and well outside iran.

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  • Stalled

    Stalled

    kill your future

  • Taste of Cherry

    Taste of Cherry

    ★★★★★

    i truly believe films have a spirit of their own. either that or they carry the spirit of their creator. sometimes i feel like they come to me at specific times in life, either for the first time or to revisit me as if catching up with an old friend, for a specific reason. it’s an even stranger feeling when you mention a film to a friend and they mention how they’ve been thinking about the same film or have…