Now online check out select stories from our Spring issue, which will hit stands next week. Alex Gibney talks about this latest doc, Casino Jack and the United States of Money; Laura Poitras follows up her Oscar nominated My Country, My Country with the powerful The Oath; and Bahman Ghobadi explains the challenges behind making No One Knows About Persian Cats. Plus, YouTube’s Sara Pollack discusses the site’s distribution model, production designer Jack Fisk recounts his 30-plus year career, Anthony Kaufman wonders where’s the under-30 indie film audience in Industry Beat, and in two passionate pieces that highlight opposite ends […]

I caught Bahman Ghobadi’s No One Knows about Persian Cats, opening tomorrow at the IFC Center, when it screened at the Doha Tribeca Film Festival. In the magazine, I wrote the following: The story told by the Iranian Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi’s No One Knows about Persian Cats would have fit comfortably into an afternoon of mumblecore films at SXSW. A young couple tries to form a band and score an out-of-town gig. Because it’s set in Iran, however, the band is outlawed, money must be scraped together for the expensive exit visa, and the female musician is not even […]