When Marjane Satrapi was a young girl in Iran, there were two things she most looked forward to: shaving her legs, and becoming the last prophet in the galaxy. Now, she can add winning an Oscar to her ...

MARTIN GROVE interviews Marjane Satrapi, pictured, whose animated "Persepolis" is France's official entry for a foreign language Academy Award and might vie with "Ratatouille" for best animated ...

Chicken with Plums opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Chicken with Plums was shot on French soundstages, with French-speaking actors. The film, which is adapted from Satrapi’s graphic ...

Sony Pictures Classics' animated coming-of-age film "Persepolis" will close the 45th annual New York Film Festival, which announced an eclectic lineup featuring new works from Sidney Lumet, Gus Van ...

Persepolis, directed by Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi, based on Satrapi’s graphic novels (Illustrations included in this review are from Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, and Vincent Paronnaud/ ...

The film “Radioactive” portrays the life of Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize — with her husband Pierre — for discoveries in radioactivity. Faced with a succession of obstacles as a ...

This deceptively simple animated film sheds heartfelt light on the misunderstood people living within the 'Axis of Evil' THREE STARS: The characters in "Persepolis" are simply drawn by animators, in ...

Forget the battle of Thermopylae. Iranian film execs are staging their own battle of “Persepolis.” Farabi Cinema Foundation, the country’s government-affiliated film org, sent a letter of protest to ...

HONG KONG — The ninth Jakarta Film Festival has unveiled 170 movies to unspool at its Dec. 7-16 edition. Pics come from 35 countries. Fest opens with “Persepolis,” the animated portrayal of life in ...