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    Caveh Zahedi

     

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    Remembering Kevin Rafferty

    Talkhouse, July 15, 2020

    I remember when Kevin Rafferty, Jayne Loader, and Pierce Rafferty's documentary The Atomic Café came out...(Read More)

     

    Final Words Are So Hard to Devise

    The Believer, February 5, 2020

    I remember the first guy who played me a Silver Jews song...(Read More)

     

    I Loved D.A. Pennebaker 

    Talkhouse, August 12, 2019

    I first met D.A. Pennebaker when I was at Florence Film Festival in 1990...(Read More)

     

    Close Encounters with Abbas Kiarostami

    Talkhouse, July 5, 2016 

    I first met Abbas Kiarostami when he was invited to the San Francisco International Film Festival in 2000... (Read More) 

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    Caveh Zahedi Talks Ziggy Stardust, Ayahausca Trips, and the Church of David Bowie

    Talkhouse, January 23, 2016

    In 1972, when I was 12 years old, I read an article in Time magazine about a strange new singer-songwriter... (Read More) 

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    Shaking the Money Tree for Awkward Celebrity Encounters: At the Screen Forward Lab

    Filmmaker, December 1, 2015

    I was stoned one night when I had the idea to do a podcast called Awkard Celebrity Encounters... (Read More) 

     

    Caveh Zahedi on Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac

    Talkhouse, May 23, 2014

    Two weeks ago, I received an email asking me if I would be interested in writing about Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac... (Read More) 

     

    Caveh Zahedi's Cinemart Diary

    Filmmaker, February 2, 2014

    I receive an email informing us that our project about the artist Joseph Cornell's relationship with a waitress... (Read More) 

     

    Top Ten Documentaries of 2013

    Keyframe, December 3, 2013

    Real-life Shakespearean tragedy, un-whitewashed sex, re-enacted murder... (Read More)

     

    Caveh Zahedi's Hamptons Screenplay Lab Diary

    Filmmaker, May 9, 2013

    ​My friend Arnold Barkus and I decide to collaborate on a script... (Read More)

     

    Caveh Zahedi's Top 100 Films

    Keyframe, December 3, 2012

     I’m probably forgetting a few, and I’m sure that if I had seen more films, the list of my 100 favorites would be different... (Read More)

     

    Caveh Takes the Vertigo Tour

    Films in Focus, December 1, 2008

    Caveh Zahedi takes a philosophical look back at his experiences on the Vertigo tour... (Read More)

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    Rome Film Fest

    Filmmaker, November 28, 2007

    Now in its second year, the spectacularly-funded new-kid-on-the-block Rome Film Rest exhibits the apparently ontologically inescapable teething pains that all toddlers must endure... (Read More)

     

    Slings and Arrows

    Film Comment, Sept/Oct. 2006

    A critic is someone who comes onto the battlefield after the battle is over and shoots the wounded... (Read More)

     

    We Are a Caveh Zahedi Addict

    Green Cine, September 12, 2006

    Jonathan Marlow asked me if I would be willing to interview myself... (Read More)

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    "Je est un autre"

    An essay by Caveh on art and his movies 

    Infinity Film Festival Catalogue, Italy, 2001​