Sure, I spent the '80s watching action movies that were mostly military revenge fantasies about the Middle East. But then I went to college and spent the '90s watching movies mostly about Tehran schoolgirls trying to accomplish various simple tasks. The Iranian New Wave would fix a lot of people.

April 07, 2026 - 16:24 UTC

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Where is the Friend’s House, 24/7.
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if that kid doesn't find the friend's house, I'm not taking a bathroom break. I quit when he does.
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Iranian film is one of the best.
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No One knows about Persian Cats. 🤘
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Not now. Now we have created a whole new generation of angry, American-hating individuals, who have every right to be angry.
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Offside (2006) is wonderful.
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Was just thinking of this one -- group of Iranian girls trying to get into a soccer match where women are not allowed, correct?
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Children of Heaven (1997) rewired my brain. You can't not see and deeply care for the humanity of a people who make a movie about a little boy and girl sneakily sharing a single pair of shoes so they don't stress out their parents about money to buy a new pair.
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Comics nerds who discovered Marjane Satrapi thanks to Art Spiegelman know what’s up.
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ok, so count you as in favor of nuking them ?
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Pete Hegseth strikes me as the type of person who complains about ‘movies he has to read.’
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Wanna come on @citycastseattle.bsky.social and talk to us about this, Ken? We'd love it.
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An American New Wave would fix even more
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I remember being a teen and seeing CHILDREN OF HEAVEN (1997) and finding it deeply touching and then getting into the film of Kiarostami and Makhmalbaf and finding so much to love and so much to enrich my life
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Such a beautiful rich culture being held captive, the Iranian people do not deserve this
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ken you literally know everything about everything and THIS is what you chose to reflect on? your brain has 2.4 million facts stored and you went with rambo analysis
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I just want to live long enough to see Jamie break the record.
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We need videos from the Iranian Human League and Iranian Level 42.
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Shes the best!
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What Would Rambo DO?
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Whew. I thought this meant you're younger than me.
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100% the White Balloon
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I watched all those movies in the 80s too, but it was like watching cartoons. Apparently, a great number of my peers didn’t think it was cartoons, instead they saw them as a manual.
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That reminds me, I haven’t watched THE DAY I BECAME A WOMAN in a couple of decades. Gotta get on that.
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Just put the Rick Steves Iran episode on repeat. No better illustration that people everywhere have the same hopes and dreams. Americans by and large are ignorant about the world around us.
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I can't stop thinking about the kind Iranian guy in my dorm who helped tutor me through an overwhelmingly difficult math class, and how betrayed he must be feeling right now.
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Have you seen “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Nighr”?
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My most selfish opinion about this war, as a film school graduate, is we better not destroy one of the best film scenes in the world. (Obviously, I want the US to stop all destruction in Iran)
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Hey man leave the politics out of *checks notes* all categories of knowledge.
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a reminder that Kiarostami's "Where Is The Friend's House?" - a movie about the goodest little boy who ever lived running an errand - is an unrelenting delight.

daredaniel.com/2026/02/03/where-is-the-friends-house/
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