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Tinged with the Color of God
Learning the ins and outs of Iranian cinema during the Fajr
festival
By Laleh Khalili
I am fortunate enough to be here when Majidi is nominated for an Oscar,
and fortuitously, I had dragged my cousin to see his "Color of God"
at a theater near Tehran University on the same day. The people in line
seemed to be divided evenly between university students, somewhat severely
garbed, and the cosmetically (and surgically) enhanced girls in their bright
hair-coverings and chic raincoats and coifed and hip young gentlemen from
further north. Once again, it is this latter group of supposed sophisticates
who are the rudest, who cut into the line (the girls use flirting as a
handy method of manipulating guys who have stood in line for hours to let
them cut in) and then pick a fight if one even tries to pass them by. The
university students are steamed and angry, but not much is said and done.
Somehow, fatalistically, everyone accepts that the right to cheat and proceed
in the lines belongs to the chic set ... GO
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Laleh Motamed Amin
Photographer
* Date of Birth: 26/03/1971
* Country of Birth: Iran
* Qualification: Degree in Graphic Design, Graduated in 1994.
* Collective Exhibitions:
1) Dec. 1995, Haft Samar Art Gallery
2) Feb. 1996, Bahman Cultural House
3) May 1996, Bampad Gallery
4) Aug. 1997, Seyhoon Gallery
* Individual Exhibitions:
1) May 1997, Haft Samar Gallery
2) Nov. 1998, Haft Samar Gallery
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HER PHOTO GALLERY
And when you are done, send her an email: negah@neda.net
Thanks to Pedram Missaghi
For you, Angy baby
Dear sir,
I have been following the controversy over Angylina
and her web site with great interest. I cannot decide who is right or wrong
in all this, but I've got to tell you: I'm madly in LOVE! I know she's
been hurt and I want to make her smile if I can. Please consider posting
this song as my dedication to my beautiful Angylina: Louis Prima's "Embraceable
you" (RealAudio)
Sincerely,
Hormoz Khakpour
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* Seeing Abadan once again
Sam K. Tahmassebi writes:
Thank you for Mr. Hamid Arjomand's pictures
of Abadan. They took me back to over 25 years ago when I used to live
there. Seeing the streets of Braim once again, I could still feel the hot
sun on my back, the smell of "sharji" in my nostriles, and the
deafening silence and stillness of a summer afternoon in my ears.
I could once again feel the boredom and anticipation as we waited for
the grown ups to wake up from their "chorts" to take us to Segoosh
swimming pool, just as my kids do today. It was a pleasant trip down memory
lane.
* Art: Woemn
artists in Iran have show in San Francisco
* Art: Gallery
Ovissi art show, Emeryville
Book of the Week
House of Sand and Fog
By Andre Dubus
Dubus tells his tragic tale from the viewpoints of the two main adversaries,
[Amir] Behrani [, a former colonel in the Iranian military under the Shah,]
and Kathy [Nicolo, a self-destructive alcoholic.] To both of them, the
house represents something more than just a place to live. For the colonel,
it is a foot in the door of the American Dream; for Kathy, a reminder of
a kinder, gentler past. In prose that is simple yet evocative The House
of Sand and Fog builds to its inevitable denouement, one that is painfully
dark but unfailingly honest. -- Alix Wilber, Amazon.com
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Khatami Spring
Here, I am learning about the works of all these other directors who
have been forced into silence for some twenty years and only now are again
making films. The Khatami Spring is the real thing.
Laleh Khalili
"Tinged
with the Color of God"
The Iranian
February 17, 1999
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