Oscar-Winning Filmmaker Asghar Farhadi on Making Movies in Iran

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Oscar-winning filmmaker Asghar Farhadi on "A Separation," making movies in Iran, and his new movie, "The Past."

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0:27.7	Thanks so much, and here's the show.
0:35.0	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.
0:42.8	Ascar Farhadi says he and other Iranian filmmakers know how to game Iran's censorship system to get their movies made.
0:46.3	If Spielberg were to land in Tehran tomorrow, he wouldn't even be able to make one shot.
0:51.7	Because he wouldn't know the ropes.
0:56.9	Farhadi follows his Oscar-winning film A Separation with a new movie, The Past, but this time he shot in France with a French-speaking cast,
1:03.7	even though he doesn't speak the language. But first on the Hollywood news banter, AMC fired Frank
1:09.7	Deribont as showrunner of The Walking Dead.
1:12.5	Now he's suing for tens of millions of dollars in profits.
1:16.6	Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.
1:21.2	I'm joined today for a special banter by two banter buddies, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times,
1:26.9	and Michael Schneider of
1:28.4	TV Guide magazine, also the host of our podcast, The Spinoff. And guys, let's start talking about
1:35.0	Frank Deribant of The Walking Dead. We're actually going to talk about two giant shows that have
1:40.2	broken out on cable, the first one being The Walking Dead. And as we reported, I guess, in 2011, Frank Deribont was really abruptly fired. He had created this series based on the Robert Kirkman graphic novels for television, for AMC. This was the first show. AMC also had Mad Men and Breaking Bad, but this was the first time they decided,
2:01.3	we're going to produce this thing ourselves.
2:03.1	We're not going to have a deal with an outside studio, respectively for Breaking Bad.
2:07.7	It was Sony Television, and for Mad Men, it was Lionsgate.
2:11.2	We're going to do this one ourselves.
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