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Friday
September 29, 2000
Kalari-Kiarostami collaboration
Tehran (Aftab-e Yazd) -- Mahmoud Kalari is making a film with a $625,000
production award he received in 1998 from an Argentinian film festival.
The film, "Raqs baa roya" is based on a screenplay Kalari co-wrote
with Abbas Kiarostami >>>
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Afkhami: I ain't cheap
Tehran (Aftab-e Yazd) -- Behrouz Afkhami says he wants to make a film
about the Iran-Iraq war. "But I'm an obsessive director who makes
expensive films." >>>
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Nouri's birthday gift
Tehran (Aftab-e Yazd) -- Artists will celebrate Mohammad Nouri's contribution
to music in the past four decades on his birthday on December 21 >>> FULL
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* Kalari-Kiarostami collaboration
* Afkhami: I ain't cheap
* Nouri's birthday gift
* New bio on Seyed Zia
* Bani-etemad's latest
* Tourism up
* Films based on famous novels
* Ancient instruments revived
* Sanandaj bridge registered as landmark
* Iran takes top award at Bangkok Film Festival
* Excavations resume at 9,000-year-old site
* Reformist cinema
* Ignoring Baluchi music
* Mamet's play in Tehran
* Jalal Al-e Ahmad
* Bistoun rennovation
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Thursday
September 28, 2000
New bio on Seyed Zia
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- A new biography on Seyed Zia Tabatabaie, a key
figure in the rise of Reza Shah, has been published in two volumes by Jafar
Mehdinia. See other new books >>>
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Bani-etemad's latest
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- Rakhshan Bani-etemad's latest film, "Zir-e
poost-e shahr" (Under the city's skin), received great attention during
a screening at the "Dialogue of Civilizations and Cinema" seminar
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Tourism up
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- Some 700,000 tourists have visited Iran in the
first six months of this year, according to an official. The total for
the year is expected to be 1.3 million tourists, up from 1.1 million last
year >>>
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Wednesday
September 27, 2000
Films based on famous novels
Tehran (Aftab-e Yazd) -- A private food processing copmany intends to
produce six films based best-selling novels. Top directors such as Bahram
Baizaie, Dayoush Mehrjuie and others are being sought for each film >>>
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Ancient instruments revived
Tehran (Iran daily) -- Mohammad Reza Darvishi talks about his orchestra
which specializes in ancient Iranian instruments >>>
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Sanandaj bridge registered as landmark
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- Pol-e Sheikh near Sanandaj, which dates back to
the late Zand or early Qajar period, has been registered as an historical
landmark >>>
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Tuesday
September 26, 2000
Iran takes top award at Bangkok Film Festival
BANGKOK, Sept 26 (AFP) - Iranian director Mohammad Ali Talebi scooped
the Golden Elephant Award at the third Bangkok Film Festival with his "Willow
and the Wind." Talebi's tale about a poor boy's adventures as he tries
to fix a broken window before the stormy season sets in was announced the
winner Monday
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Excavations resume at 9,000-year-old site
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- Excavations have resumed at the ancient "Ozbaki"
site, which is believed to contain remains from the 7th millennium, B.C.
Located in the Savjebalagh region, the site is being excavated under the
supervision of Dr. Yousef Majidzadeh >>>
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Reformist cinema
Tehran (Aftab-e Yazd) -- "The kind of cinema we can rely on is
reformist," says Davoodnezhad in an interview >>>
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Ignoring Baluchi music
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- Two weeks ago two of the masters of Baluchi music
performed at the Vahdat Hall in Tehran. No one promoted the event. No one
reported the news. They were ignored. Meanwhile the two masters were on
their way to Venezuela the for a concert. I guess foreigners care more
about our folk music than we do >>>
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Monday
September 25, 2000
Mamet's play in Tehran
Tehran (Aftab-e Yazd) -- David Mamet's "A Life in the Theatre"
will soon be performed in Tehran. The American playwright's play has been
translated by Daryoush Moadabiyan who will direct it. Ali Nassirian will
will play the leading role >>>
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Jalal Al-e Ahmad
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- Thirty-one years ago writer and critic Jalal Al-e
Ahmad passed away. A biography
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Bistoun rennovation
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- The historiacal sites near the Bistoun are undergoing
rennovation >>>
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