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* Film: 'The Children
of Heaven': For a Pair of Sneakers
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* Film: Iran's "Green
Film Festival
* Film: Tehran film fest
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* History: Historic bath
to be preserved
* Play: "Waiting for Godot"
* History: Oldest cemetery
found
* Film: Tehran Film Festival
* Literature: Ferdosi &
Iran's youth
* Literature: Nargess&
Hafez
* Film: Center for youth
* History: More digs at
the "Burnt City"
* Play: Rostam & Sohran
* Film: "Cherry" best
foreign film
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* 'The Children of Heaven': For a Pair of Sneakers, Longing, Lies
and a Plan
Jan 22, New York Times - The young hero of Majid Majidi's "Children
of Heaven" is played by Mir Farrokh Hashemian, a desolate-looking
boy with huge brown eyes and a way of sending tears suddenly rolling down
his cheeks. Those tears well up with some regularity during this film about
9-year-old Ali, his younger sister Zahra (Bahareh Seddiqui) and their scheme
for sharing a pair of his tattered sneakers. The children want to hide
the fact that Zahra's shoes have been lost because this will be a hardship
for their parents ... FULL
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* Iran's "Green Film Festival"
Tehran, Department of the Environment press release: The first international
film festival focused on the living environment will be held in Iran in
February 1999. Dr. Yousef Hojjat, deputy-managing director for training
and planning at the Department of the Environment has announced the dates
of February 28th to March 5th 1999 for the first international film festival
to be organized around environmental issues ... FULL
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* Tehran film fest details
Tehran (Hamshahri) - Details of the Tehran international film festivcal
next month, including the names of the films and their directors ... FULL TEXT
IN PERSIAN
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* Historic bath to be preserved
Tehran (Hamshahri) - The historic Sheikh Bahai public bath in Isfahan
has been registered as a national monument and will come under the preservation
activities of the Cultural Heritage Foundation ... FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* "Waiting for Godot"
Tehran (Hamshahri) - "Waiting for Godot" -- Samuel Beckett's
classic play -- is now playing in Tehran, but Hamshahri's review is not
favorable. The Persian translation of the text is well done - the play
itself is not ... FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
* Oldest cemetery in Iran found
Tehran (Hamshahri) - A cemetery dating 4000 years "before the iron
age" has been discovered in the Talesh region of Gilan Province ...
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TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* Tehran Film Festival
Tehran (Hamshahri) - Deputy guidance minister in charge of films detailed
some of the plans for this year's international Fajr Film Festival which
will be held in next month ... FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* Ferdosi & Iran's youth
Tehran (Hamshahri) - A commentary on Mohammad Ali Eslami Nadoushan's
research regarding Ferdosi and the impact of the Shahnameh on Iran's youth
... FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* Nargess& Hafez
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - A feature on references to nargess (primrose)
in the poetry of Hafez ... FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* Film center for youth
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - A center for supporting films about children and
youth has opened in Tehran ... FULL
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* More digs at the "Burnt City"
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - Archaelogists are conducting more digs at the
site of "Shar-e Sookhteh" (Burnt City) which is thought to date
from 3200 BC. Located 55 kms southwest of Zabol in Sistan-Baluchestan Province,
"Shar-e Sookhteh" is among the oldest examples of urbanization
in the Middle East ... FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* Rostam & Sohrab
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - "Rostam and Sohrab" has been turned
into a play that is currenly being staged in Tehran Vahdat Hall ... FULL TEXT
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* "Cherry" best foreign film
NEW YORK, Jan 4, 1998 (CNN) -- "Out of Sight" might be out
of theaters, but it's not out of the minds of the National Society of Film
Critics. The group on Sunday picked the George Clooney movie as the year's
best. The film's director, Steven Soderbergh, beat Terrence Malick ("The
Thin Red Line") and Steven Spielberg ("Saving Private Ryan")
for best director honors. The society, made up of 51 movie critics, also
honored "The Thin Red Line" with best cinematography honors and
named "Taste of Cherry," an Iranian film, the year's best foreign
language film.
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