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September 6-10, 1999 / Shahrivar 15-19, 1378
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* Majidi wins in Montreal Festival
* Pop art
* Comedy in Shahr-e Kurd
* Best films chosen
* Samad Behrangi: short biography
* A really bad review
* Best films
* Objection
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Friday
September 10, 1999
* Diplomatic memoir
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- Dr. Parviz Zoleyn has been
a diplomat and a professor of foreign relations for decades. He must have
lots of interesting stories to tell. He does and he has brought them together
in a book "Diplomacy: Khaateraat va aamuzeh-haa" ... FULL TEXT
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* Olumi's new book
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- Mohammad Ali Elumi almost
won a national award for fiction (2nd place, Book of the Year). He has
a new book of short stories: "Anduhgerd" ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
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Thursday
September 9, 1999
* New books
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- New books: Collected short stories of Mahmoud
Dowlatabadi; Gholam-Reza Nejati's history of contemporary Iran from the
1953 coup until the revolution; the fifth volume of an encyclopedia for
children; and ... FULL
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* Cartoonists awarded
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- Cartoonists from the Ukraine, Poland and Iran
took first, second and third place in the first international soccer cartoons
exhibit in Iran ... FULL
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Wednesday
September 8, 1999
* Pop art
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- Western pop art is on display at Tehran's Museum
of Contemporary Arts ... FULL
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* Comedy in Shahr-e Kurd
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- More than 80 films will be shown at an upcoming
film festival in Shahr-e Kurd, including a number of comedies ... FULL TEXT
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Tuesday
September 7, 1999
* Majidi wins jury award in Montreal Film Festival
MONTREAL (Variety) - For the first time in the
23-year history of the Montreal World Film Festival, a director has won
the event's top prize for a second time. ``The Color of Paradise,'' from
Iranian writer-director Majid Majidi... formerly titled ``The Color of
God'' -- is a story about an 8-year-old blind boy who returns with his
father, a poor coal worker, to his home village in the northern highlands
of Iran ... FULL
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* Best films chosen
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- "Dokhtari baa kafsh-haaye
kataani" ("A girl with sneakers") and "Masaeb-e Shirin"
("Sweet Pain" or "Shirin's Problems"?) have been jointly
chosen as the best films of the year by Tehran's House of Cinema. See winners
in other categories ... FULL
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* Samad Behrangi: short biography
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- Ahmad Bayani has written
an interesting little biography of the late novelist Samad Behrangi ...
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Monday
September 6, 1999
* A really bad review
Tehran (Iran daily) -- Pari Saberi's direction
of the play "Rostam & Sohrab" has been trashed. Talk about
a bad review! ... FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* Best films
Tehran (Iran daily) -- Awards will be handed out
to the summer's best films ... FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* Objection
Tehran (Iran daily) -- Film director Alireza Davood-Nejad
objects to how films are screened ... FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
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