Shayan Najafy

Shayan Najafy

Favorite films

  • The Holy Mountain
  • Raging Bull
  • The Great Beauty
  • The Insider

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  • Meshes of the Afternoon

    ★★★★

  • Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

    ★★★½

  • Taxidermia

    ★★★★★

  • The Hours

    ★★★½

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  • Female Trouble

    Female Trouble

    ★★★★

    Documentry-like portrayal of the slipery slope of an uneducated girl exposed to the idea of celebrity life and in believing it she becomes a victim of it, in our eyes, or a martyr in hers.

  • Burden of Dreams

    Burden of Dreams

    ★★★½

    Herzog, what a great person he is. I would've loved to be his friend when we was young. The energy and the greatness of this project is absurd in comparison to it's outcome, which is only a piece of art. Generals should be like this, entrepreneurs should be like this, but Herzog, oh he is grandiose like Caesar or Alexander, in the middle of the jungle, in a war with nature and time, fulfilling his ambition.

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  • Persepolis

    Persepolis

    ★★★★★

    A great personal coming-of-age animation which shows the decline of the world around her as she is growing up. The movie is an extreme portrayal of an even worse tragedy for Iranians as each day is always worse than the last. Most of the scenes which are happening in Iran were everyday events and crises for so many Iranians during the 80s, which were the worst era of Iran and this movie shows many of them, which is still so few. Thing got a bit better in the 2000s, an era which isn't covered in the movie. A masterpiece in my opinion.

  • Marriage Story

    Marriage Story

    ★½

    No backstory, no character development, the girl suddenly gets an emmy nomination for diecting and the guy gets to broadway and ucla? There is so many things wrong with this movie that is impossible to count.

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