Kaveh Jalinous, Author at Book and Film Globe

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Perpendicular Lives Intersect in ‘Possible Love’

October 20, 2026October 26, 2026 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments arthouse cinema, capitalism, Cho Yeo-jeong, cinematic storytelling, class inequality, documentary ethics, documentary filmmaking, economic exploitation, factory workers, Family Drama, film review, grief, international cinema, Jeon Do-yeon, Korean cinema, Korean drama, Lee Chang-dong, love stories, marriage, movie reviews, Netflix, Possible Love, privilege, Psychological Drama, relationships, social realism, South Korean films, Sul Kyung-gu, unemployment, voyeurism, wealth inequality, working class, Zo In-sung

Lee Chang-dong brings two unlikely couples together in this NYFF success that is heading straight to theater screens and Netflix

Unexpected Gems From the New York Film Festival

October 14, 2026 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments arthouse cinema, Arundhati Roy, China, Currents, documentary, Éric Baudelaire, experimental cinema, Film at Lincoln Center, Film festival, For the Moon, Goodbye South Goodbye, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones, Kinmen, Luise Donschen, movie reviews, National Institute for Blind Youth, New York Film Festival, NYFF, Overt Listening, Pradip Krishen, restored films, Revivals, Taiwan, Tiffany Sia, Tomorrow a Long Time Ago, world cinema

From avant-garde documentaries to restored classics, the festival’s deepest cuts were among its finest.

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Hasta La Vista, Toronto, You Ended Strong

September 22, 2026September 28, 2026 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments Ah Girl, Arthur Harari, Canadian cinema, coming of age, documentary, French cinema, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Ian Bawa, Iranian cinema, Japanese cinema, La Gradiva, Léa Seydoux, Look Back, Mandeep Sodhi, Marine Atlan, Niels Schneider, Ong Xuan Jing, Pegah Ahangarani, psychological thriller, Rehearsals for a Revolution, Singapore cinema, Strong Son, The Unknown, TIFF 2026, Toronto International Film Festival

TIFF 2026’s final set of films include Marine Atlan’s stunning ‘La Gradiva’ to daring works from Iran, France, Japan, and Singapore

The Strange Vibe — and Unexpected Pleasures — of TIFF 2026

September 15, 2026September 15, 2026 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments animated film, Bitter Christmas, Canadian cinema, Carol Nguyen, Cody Lightning, Colombian cinema, documentary, Girleza Duave Cerezo, hockey movie, In Waves, Indigenous cinema, Juan Andrés Arango Garcia, L'AUTRE, Pedro Almodóvar, Phuong-Mai Nguyen, Quebec cinema, Smudge the Blades, Stephanie Hsu, Still Night Burning House, surfing, TIFF 2026, Toronto International Film Festival, Where the River Begins, Will Sharpe

The Toronto Film Festival continues with Pedro Almodóvar, rainforest odysseys and Indigenous hockey stories

Grapes, Violins, and Growing Up: A First Look at This Year’s Toronto Film Festival

September 14, 2026September 14, 2026 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments animation, Anthony Chen, Canadian cinema, David Beaudoin, documentary, Emanuele Gerosa, Ervin Han, Félix Munger, Filipino cinema, Film festival, John Torres, John Trengove, Low Lies the Land, Raúl García, Rémi St-Michael, Singapore cinema, South African cinema, The Remotes, The Smell of Apples, The Violinist, TIFF 2026, TIFF review, Toronto International Film Festival, Toy Gun Bandit, We Are All Strangers, world cinema

TIFF 2026 leads with the unexpected

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Tribeca 2026: The Year of Going to the Cinema

June 24, 2026June 29, 2026 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments Al Pacino, Alicia Vikander, American independent film, Billie Lourd, cinema culture, documentary films, documentary review, Elizabeth Cutler, emerging filmmakers, Festival Coverage, festival favorites, Fidel Castro, film criticism, film festivals, Flywheel, Harvey Guillén, independent film, indie cinema, Japanese cinema, Josh Brener, Julie Rice, Killing Castro, Memorizu, mental health, Miiku Sakanishi, motherhood, movie reviews, New York City, Peloton, political thrillers, postpartum depression, relationships, Romantic Drama, Ruth Zuckerman, Seven OClock Breakfast Club from the Brokenhearted, SoulCycle, Spin Wars, streaming movies, That Friend, The Last Day, Tribeca 2026, Tribeca Festival, Tribeca reviews, Victoria Pedretti, world cinema

Subjects ranging from rural Japan to New York spin studios to Cold War Cuba showcased the festival’s eclectic range

The Choices Are Vast at Tribeca 2026

June 14, 2026 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments American independent film, Before Sunrise, Blair Beeken, campus life, Cinque Terre, Columbia University, documentary films, Doron Max Hagay, emerging filmmakers, Ephemera, Festival Coverage, festival favorites, film criticism, film festivals, Good Grief, Here Im Alive, independent film, indie cinema, Joshua Z Weinstein, Kingston, movie recommendations, music documentaries, New York City, New York culture, New York stories, overtourism, Patti Harrison, queer cinema, Robert De Niro, Sara Bareilles, Shan Jiang, Shanghai, Shay Rudolph, She Keeps Me Young, social media, The Siege of Paradise, Tribeca 2026, Tribeca Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Tribeca reviews, world cinema

Some recommendations as New York’s film festival celebrates its silver jubilee

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Is Timothée Chalamet the Last True Movie Star?

December 19, 2025December 23, 2025 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments A Complete Unknown, A24, Avatar Fire and Ash, Bob Dylan biopics, box office, Call Me By Your Name, Club Chalamet, Denis Villeneuve, Dune, Gen Z culture, James Cameron, Josh Safdie, Little Women, Luca Guadagnino, Marty Supreme, modern Hollywood, movie stars, Netflix, New York Film Festival, Ronald Bronstein, Timothée Chalamet, Warner Bros., Wonka

The lead in ‘Marty Supreme’ is the latest in an idiosyncratic, but successful set of roles

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DOC NYC Delivers the Weird, the Wild, and the Profound

November 25, 2025 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments DOC NYC, documentaries, documentary film, Film festival, Kings of Venice, nonfiction cinema, Nuns vs the Vatican, Santacon, Seth Porges, The Balloonists, The Big Cheese, Whistle documentary

From Cancer Alley and sun-soaked Venice Beach to the dark heart of the Catholic Church, docs turn obsessions into big-hearted human stories

Rebellion, Revelation, and Rapture: NewFest 2025 Proves Queer Cinema Is Thriving

October 20, 2025October 20, 2025 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments A Night Like This, Blue Film, Elliot Tuttle, Filipe Matzembacher, LGBTQ+ film festival, LGBTQ+ rights, Liam Calvert, Marcio Reolon, Mathias Broe, New York film festivals, NewFest 2025, Night Stage, queer cinema, Sauna, She’s the He, Siobhan McCarthy, trans representation

Highlights from New York’s premier LGBTQ+ film festival as it pairs defiance with discovery

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The Best of the Fests: Talking Diverse Excellence at the New York Film Festival

October 8, 2025 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments Alexandre Koberidze, Back Home, Days and Nights in the Forest, Drunken Noodles, Dry Leaf, Escape, Film at Lincoln Center, Georgian cinema, Hair Paper Water, international cinema, Lucio Castro, Masao Adachi, Masao Adachi Escape, New York Film Festival 2025, Nicolas Graux, NYFF 2025, Satoshi Kirishima, Satyajit Ray, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival, Trương Minh Quý, Trương Minh Quý Hair Paper Water, Tsai Ming-liang, Tsai Ming-liang Back Home, Venice Film Festival, Vietnamese cinema

Featuring movies from a variety of countries and in a variety of styles, NYFF’s curation sparkles

That’s a Wrap on Toronto 2025

September 15, 2025 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments Abbas Kiarostami, Aftersun, Akinola Davies Jr., Anders Thomas Jensen, black comedy, Blue Heron, Caméra d’Or Special Mention, Charlotte Wells, Chibuike Marvelous Egbo, Chie Hayakawa, Close-Up, Danish black comedy, Danish cinema, Erik Beddoes, Eylul Guven, F**k My Son!, Ginkgo biloba, Godwin Chiemerie Egbo, Hungarian cinema, Hungarian films, Ildikó Enyedi, Japanese cinema, Jermaine Canute Edwards, John Lennon, Mads Mikkelsen, Midnight Madness, My Father’s Shadow, Nigerian cinema, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Renoir, Silent Friend, Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Sophy Romvari, The Last Viking, TIFF 2025, TIFF highlights, Todd Rohal, Tokyo, Tokyo stories, Toronto International Film Festival, Vancouver Island, Yui Suzuki

A final roundup of the TIFF films you won’t read about elsewhere

More Under-the-Radar Finds from TIFF 2025

September 11, 2025September 11, 2025 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments Blood Lines, Clara Khoury, Diego Céspedes, Farouk Laâridh, Four Daughters, Gail Maurice, Hadi Putra, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Idan Aedan, Kenji Tanigaki, Lin Xiaoli, mental illness, Midnight Madness, Mohammad Nizar, Shu Qi, Sink, The Fox King, The Furious, The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo, TIFF 2025, Toronto International Film Festival, Woo Ming Jin, Zain Duraie

Jordan, Japan, Malaysia, Chile, and Taiwan all have fascinating films on show in Toronto

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The Movies Flying Under the Radar at TIFF 2025

September 9, 2025September 9, 2025 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments 2002 World Cup, Adolescence, Andrea Riseborough, Anson Boon, Corpus Christi, Crohn’s disease, Curry Barker, Éanna Hardwicke, Glenn Leyburn, Good Boy, Inde Navarrette, Jamal Burger, Jan Komasa, Jukan Tateisi, Lisa Barros D’Sa, Lovely Day, Masaki Saito, Michael Johnston, Mick McCarthy, Milk & Serial, Monsieur Lazhar, Neil Elias, OBSESSION, Paul Fraser, Phillipe Falardeau, Roy Keane, Saipan, Stephen Graham, Steve Coogan, Still Single, Stroma Cairns, The Son and the Sea, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival

Sushi, tough love, horror, and soccer are among the offerings in Toronto

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Paris Gazes Upon A Full Restoration of Abel Gance’s ‘Napoleon,’ and You Should Too

July 29, 2024August 1, 2024 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments Abel Gance, La Cinémathèque Française, La Roue, Napoleon

Ninety-seven years later, a seven-and-a-half-hour silent historical epic is still timeless and enthralling

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