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September 5-8, 2000 / Shahrivar 15-18, 1379
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September 8, 2000
* Iran's 'Circle' Critics' Choice As Venice Fest Ends
VENICE, Italy (Reuters) - Hollywood film stars provided the glitter,
but a dark Iranian movie about the oppression of women proved the critics'
favorite on the last day of competition at the Venice Film Festival on
Friday.
``The Circle'' by prize-winning Iranian director Jafar Panahi tells
the story of eight women living in Iran, where they are not allowed to
smoke in public, stay in a hotel on their own, or ride in a car driven
by a man who is not a relative >>>
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Cinema: Most dynamic
Tehran (Jam-e Jam) -- One hundred films will be shown at the youth film
festival to mark 100 years of Iranian cinema >>>
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100 films
Tehran, (Iran daily) -- If Iranian films win awards at the Venice film
festival following their success at Cannes, 2000 may turn out be the most
successful year for Iranian cinema >>>
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UFO
Tehran (Jam-e Jam) -- A UFO will land in tonight's episode of "Tabagheh
vasat" >>>
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* Iran's 'Circle' Critics' Choice As
Venice Fest Ends
* Cinema: Most dynamic
* 100 films
* UFO
* Panahi's Venice dream
* 2000: The year of Iranian cinema?
* Book. Eyewitness to Constitutional Revolution
* Abolishing book permits: In favor or against free expression?
* Rational book in irrational times
* Yazdis get more movie houses
* Iranian filmns win awards in Montreal
* Concert scarpped after thugs intervene
* Excavations at pre-Persepolis site
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Thursday
September 7, 2000
Panahi's Venice dream
Tehran, (Hamshahri) -- Jafar Panahi's "Daayereh" (The Circle)
is contending for the Golden Lion -- the top award at the Venice film festival,
the oldest in the world >>>
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2000: The year of Iranian cinema?
Tehran, (Iran daily) -- If Iranian films win awards at the Venice film
festival following their success at Cannes, 2000 may turn out be the most
successful year for Iranian cinema >>>
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Book. Eyewitness to Constitutional Revolution
Tehran, (Hamshahri) -- There's a new book out on the role of Tabrizi
freedom-fighters in the Constitutional Revolution, written by an eyewitness.
Also Ali Dehbashi has published a book to commemorate the late historian
Abdol-Hossein Zarrinkoub >>>
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Wednesday
September 6, 2000
Abolishing book permits: In favor or against free expression?
Tehran, (Hamshahri) -- The Guidance Ministry intends to submit a bill
to the Majlis to abolish issuing permits for books. Critics say the bill
may seem in favor of freedom of expression, but it will expose writers
to pressure from the judiciary >>>
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Rational book in irrational times
Tehran, (Hamshahri) -- Morteza Mardiha has a book out called "In
defense of rationality: Intellect's precedence over religion, politics
and culture." Enough said >>>
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Yazdis get more movie houses
Tehran, (Jam-e Jam) -- Six new movie thesters will open in Yazd province
soon, brining the total in the entire provice to 11 >>>
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Tuesday
September 5, 2000
Iranian filmns win awards in Montreal
Tehran (Iran daily) -- Films by Bahman Farmanara and Maryam Shahriyar
win awards at Montreal film festival >>>
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Concert scarpped after thugs intervene
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- Radical thugs prevent concert in Sari, even though
the event had an official approval form the Guidance Ministry >>>
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Excavations at pre-Persepolis site
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- Excavations begin at the 2700-year-old Ziwiyeh
ruins at the 45 kms southeast of Saqez >>>
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September 4, 2000
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