Aladdin 2: The real reason Robin Williams refused to return

"Aladdin 2" didn't quite hit the mark like the original did. Robin Williams not returning for the iconic role certainly ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Jafar Panahi: The World’s Most Acclaimed Dissident Filmmaker

The Iranian director, one of THR’s Legends of the Croisette, talks prison and censorship, why he plans to stay in Iran, and how, in his new film 'It Was Just an Accident,' he turns oppression into ...
NPR

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi discusses his new thriller, 'It Was Just an Accident'

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi about his new movie, "It Was Just An Accident." Panahi made the film right after being released from Iranian prison. Jafar Panahi's been ...
Los Angeles Times

Want to get into the films of Iran’s Jafar Panahi, who went from imprisonment to Cannes? He’s happy to help

As a child born in a working-class neighborhood in south Tehran, future director Jafar Panahi would save all the pocket change his father gave him so he could go to the movies. Yet it was a role in ...