Word: zahedi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hate Las Vegas Anymore" is writer/director Caveh Zahedi's homemade documentary about his road trip to Las Vegas with his estranged father and half-brother. It also offers Zahedi's attempt to prove the existence of God by simply letting the film happen without the conventional constraints of a script or even an intended plot...
Asserting, "This film is an experiment in faith," Zahedi demonstrates this belief in a higher order by filming extemporaneous situations as they unfold. But despite his film maker's constant reiteration of his belief that "What happens happens for a reason. Everything has a meaning," the neurotic and nervous director, who has often been called the Iranian-American Woody Allen, refuses to yield to Fate...
Constantly dictating the scenes in a passive-aggressive manner, Zahedi indeed resembles his Jewish counterpart as a control freak. The movie's few merits lie in Zahedi's documentary-like style, which exposes the dynamics of his relationships with his father and sibling. The method of allowing events to unfold carries potential for rendering a great film, but doesn't suit the nervous, controlling filmmaker. This ill-suited union only succeeds in begetting a drawn-out series of irritating, contrived and poorly shot scenes of a man exhibiting his warts...
...wide screens there's a face-off between the two top-grossing films of the week. Casper (the Friendly Ghost) offers his doe-eyed version of mortality against the merry bloodbath that is Die Hard with a Vengeance. But over at Taco Bell, 15-year-old Christopher Zahedi will tell you he prefers the rougher stuff. "I liked the part in Pulp Fiction where the guy points a gun and says a prayer from the Bible and then kills everybody,'' he offers. "You hear the gun go brrrr. It's cool...
COVER: Photograph for TIME by Firooz Zahedi...