Iranian film-maker won Cannes film festival’s Palme D’Or prize earlier this year for It Was Just an Accident
Iran has sentenced the Palme d’Or-winning film-maker Jafar Panahi in absentia to one year in prison and a travel ban over “propaganda activities” against the country.
The sentence includes a two-year ban on leaving Iran and prohibition of Panahi from membership of any political or social groups, his lawyer Mostafa Nili said, adding that they would file an appeal.
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The origins of table tennis have often obscured its influence – it was literally designed to be the diminutive form of tennis, after all. But the idea of “spin” first originated with ping pong; politically, it would become the thing that opened up negotiations between the US and China under Nixon. There are gestures to this in Marty Supreme, but the new film from Josh Safdie is more interested in the sport as a fixture for outcasts in the ’50s Lower East Side. Loosely based on the true story of Jewish table tennis underdog Marty Reisman, Marty Supreme arrives eager and ready to unnerve you.
“Loosely” is the key word here, unless it turns ou …
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