Writing
Final Words Are So Hard to Devise
The Believer, February 5, 2020
David was a wit, a provocateur, a savant, a wise guy and a good friend...(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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Films in Focus, December 1, 2008
Caveh Zahedi takes a philosophical look back at his experiences on the Vertigo tour... (Read More)
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)
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)
Green Cine, September 12, 2006
Jonathan Marlow asked me if I would be willing to interview myself... (Read More)
An essay by Caveh on art and his movies
Infinity Film Festival Catalogue, Italy, 2001