‘Coup 53,’ ‘Desert One’ Film Reviews: Documentaries on Iran Offer Troubled History Lessons

 Bradley Cooper  has been busy at work in Los Angeles recently working on a new film, the 45-year-old actor was spotted in New York City on Monday in the Tribeca neighborhood hugging his ex-girlfriend and mother of his daughter, Russian supermodel  Irina Shayk . Their three-year-old daughter, Lea De Seine was in a stroller next to the couple.Cooper and Shayk haven’t been seen together in public since February at a British Vogue event, according to the Daily Mail.

coronavirus put a stop to his moment in the spotlight, after he tested positive and was unable to travel to Italy as planned.“I told him when he was working hard digging in that tunnel that this film will become famous in the world and you will forget the pains. Then (when he tested positive for the virus) he told me: ‘Mr.

Framed as a ticking clock political thriller, Iranian director Taghi Amirani’s documentary “Coup 53” plays as an enthralling look at the 1953 overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mossadegh by U.S. and U.K.

Iranian director Majid Majidi has made some of the most visually stunning and emotionally stirring films in world cinema about the plight of under-privileged, exploited and abused young people, and Sun Children (Khorshid) is one of his very best. The story of street boys commissioned by a local boss to dig for a treasure unfolds around an urban schoolyard and the clever, freckled face of 12-year-old Ali (Roohollah Zamani), a stereotype-buster of non-stop courage.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticWatching Iranian director Majid Majidi’s “Sun Children,” I was reminded of “The Florida Project.” One of the best films about children of the 21st century, “The Florida Project” takes place within a stone’s throw of Walt Disney World, where it seems a dream too much for its neglected kid characters to visit, until, in the film’s last scene, they enter the park. “Sun Children” presents this scenario in reverse.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticOf the dozen young women whom the Walt Disney Co.

“Tehran” is coming to North American audiences.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThese are boom times for hit songwriters, with catalogs being snapped up by Hipgnosis, Shamrock and others — and the latest big acquisition comes from Spirit Music Group, which announced that it has acquired the publishing catalog of Grammy-nominated songwriter and former “American Idol” judge Kara DioGuardi.