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The proscribed director’s new film ‘No Bears’ is a no-holds-barred critique of Iran’s repressive rule.

Banned from making movies, the Iranian director has nevertheless created a formidable body of work – an uprising in cinematic form.

Paul Newman, star of Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, Cool Hand Luke and The Color Of Money, among many others, never seemed to age.

There’s no easy answer, but documentary offers some insight

If you want to have the joy you take in motion pictures restored, look no further than The Last Movie Stars, Ethan Hawke’s six-part documentary on HBO Max and CNN about Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman. Hawke tells the story of their careers and marriage through their words and, most gloriously, their performances. In so doing, he gets at the mass intimacy between actors and audience — how we identify with screen giants we both do and do not know.

Imprisoned Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was awarded the Special Jury prize at the Venice International Film Festival over the weekend for his latest film, No Bears.

In this weeks Ask Mick LaSalle, the Chronicle movie critic argues that great actors were not what made The Godfather great.

A most unusual doco series from Ethan Hawke tells the love story of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.

The wife of a jailed Iranian filmmaker and activist says her husband was taken to the hospital for treatment of COVID-19 but was returned to prison without going through treatment.

The Last Movie Stars, about power couple Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, also proves a devastating portrait of an era, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes