“To woman, life, and freedom” These were the words with which Jafar Panahi concluded his speech in Piazza Grande just a few months ago during the 78ᵗʰ edition of our festival, on the occasion of the screening of ‘Un simple accident’. Just moments later, he shared the stage with another great Iranian director often welcomed at Locarno: Mohammad Rasoulof, who received the very first Locarno City of Peace Award. These words – their words – have never felt more important than they do today. → Watch

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1K reactions · 121 shares | Kiyoshi Kurosawa on Richard Fleischer’s “Armored Car Robbery” (1950): “Well, first of all, only a very few people know about this [film]. It’s one of my favourite movies. Everything is perfectly made. No matter how many times I watch it, it’s a perfect movie. This is a movie where every single action tells the whole story, and it moves forward at an incredible speed.” (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Letterboxd, 2025) | History of Cinema | Facebook

Martin Scorsese on Giant (1956), directed by George Stevens: "I’ve seen this film over forty times. I don’t like the obvious romanticism, and it’s very studied, but there’s more here than people have seen. It has to do with the depiction of a life style through the passage of so many years. You see people grow. I like James Dean; I like the use of music, even though Dmitri Tiomkin did it…" The full text is available for our subscribers | History of Cinema