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Ramin Bahrani and Hamid Dabashi on MAN PUSH CART OTTID:1410801

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For this conversation, recorded in fall 2020, director Ramin Bahrani sat down with critic Hamid Dabashi, a former professor of his at Columbia University, to discuss the director’s early cultural and cinematic influences and their impact on MAN PUSH CART.

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