Massoud Farasati

Massoud Farassati (also spelled Farasati or Ferasati, ) is an Iranian film critic. He used to regularly appear in the Iranian State Television programme Haft, hosted by Fereydoun Jeyrani and later by Behrouz Afkhami. He has published anthologies of writings about such classical filmmakers as Charlie Chaplin, John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa and Ingmar Bergman in Persian.

Views
According to Saeed Kamali Dehghan of The Guardian, his views are close to those of the Iranian government. He is a harshly dismissive of Abbas Kiarostami's works. Farassati uses the terms Siahnamayi and Festival Cinema to describe films he deems "exotic" to foreign audience and of only seeking to win awards in the West. As of today, Ferassati appears on the show 'Ketab Baaz' with views regarding diverse subjects

Favourite movies

 * 1) Vertigo | Alfred Hitchcock
 * 2) Saraband | Ingmar Bergman
 * 3) Army of Shadows | Jean-Pierre Melville
 * 4) Rio Bravo | Howard Hawks
 * 5) The Searchers | John Ford
 * 6) Detective Story | William Wyler
 * 7) Love in the Afternoon | Billy Wilder
 * 8) The Wrong Man | Alfred Hitchcock
 * 9) The Shop Around the Corner | Ernst Lubitsch
 * 10) Cries and Whispers | Ingmar Bergman