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* Film: "Banoo"
released
* Film: Divorce Iranian
Style, in New York
* Literature: Imad-afshar passes
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* Film: London film fest
award for young Makhmalbaf
* Film: De Niro to feature
in Iranian movie showcase
* Books: Interview with Mohajerani
* Play: "Azeez-eh maaee"
* Culture: New head of
"Daaneshnaameh-ye Faarsi" project
* Film: Living Out Loud
* Film: "Dust Dance":
Best Asian film
* Film: Women bring Iranian
cinema to the U.S.
* Music: Bad Bach
* Film: Revealing an Iran
where the chadors are most chic
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* "Banoo" released
I was looking for something in Pedram Missaghi's Iran Media site and suddenly I noticed this news: Dariush
Mehrjuie's "Banoo" which had been banned after it was made seven
years ago, has now been released at movie theaters in Iran. Read
all about it (in Persian)
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* Divorce Iranian Style, in New York
FILM FORUM - NEW YORK CITY
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9 - TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22 2 WEEKS
DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE
Directed by Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini
ENGLAND, 1998
80 MINS.
IN FARSI WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
One woman tells the judge her husband is crazy: in 30 years he has refused
to let her answer the phone. (In Iran "craziness" is one of the
few acceptable grounds for divorce when proceedings are brought by a woman;
for men, divorce is granted upon request.) A 16-year-old, married at age
14 to a man 2 1/2 times her age, explains that she desperately wants a
divorce to go back to school. Another pleads for custody of her 4-year-old
daughter, having already lost custody of the older child. "You're
poisoning my tea," mutters the judge to a woman who insists he find
her misplaced file within the hour (he had suggested she return in a week).
Inside an Iranian divorce court, a stream of veiled women (some only teenager
others elderly) make use of reason, wit, charm, and chicanery to get what
they want above all else: a divorce. Daily: 2, 3:40, 5:20, 7, 8:40, 10:20
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* Imad-afshar passes away
Tehran, Nov. 20, IRNA - Hossein imad-afshar, professor of methodolog
and persian literature at the iranian university and the academic institutions
died here thursday... FULL
TEXT
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* De Niro to feature in Iranian movie showcase
TEHRAN, Nov 19 (AFP) -One of Iran's top public universities is to showcase
a series of films featuring Hollywood star Robert De Niro despite the Islamic
republic's hostility towards Western culture. Tehran's University of Art
will be screening De Niro movies including "Angel Heart," "Cape
Fear" and "Mission," the Iran newspaper reported Thursday...
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* London film fest award for young Makhmalbaf
Tehran, (HAMSHAHRI) - An international film festival in London has given
the best film award to Samira Makhmalbaf for her first film, "Seeb"
("The Apple")... FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* Interview with Mohajerani
Tehran, (HAMSHAHRI) - Culture Minister Ataollah Mohajerani says a draft
proposal from the publishers guild aimed at changing the current tough
laws governing book publishing is being studied (last question) ...
FULL TEXT
IN PERSIAN
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* "Azeez-eh maaee"
Tehran, (HAMSHAHRI) - "Azeez-eh maaee" (You are our dearest)
is a play that tells the story of a soldier who has been missing for the
past nine years returns to a home and family much changed during his absence
... FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* New head of "Daaneshnaameh-ye Faarsi" project
Tehran, (HAMSHAHRI) - Dr Naderqoli Qorchian has become the new head
of the Persian encyclodedia (Daaneshnaameh-ye Faarsi) project, replacing
Dr. Ahmad Bireshk ... FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
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Living Out Loud
Few films have succeeded as much in dealing with broken relationships.
Holly Hunter and Danny DeVito give a superb performance ... REVIEW
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* "Dust Dance": Best Asian film
Tehran, (HAMSHAHRI) - Abolfazl Jalili's "Raq-se Khaak" ("Dust
Dance") has been named Best Film in the Asian Film Festival in Tokyo
... FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* Women bring Iranian cinema to the U.S.
WASHINGTON, DC (Search for Common Ground) - Six of Iran's foremost women
film-makers will visit the U.S. in November as part of a continuing effort
to foster greater American-Iranian understanding. The visit is being organized
by Search for Common Ground (SCG), a Washington-based conflict resolution
organization, and Khaneh Cinema, a professional association for film-makers
in Iran, in close cooperation with the Film Center at the School of the
Art Institute in Chicago and the Film Society at Lincoln Center in New
York... FULL
TEXT
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* Bad Bach
Tehran, (HAMSHAHRI) - Musicians at the Niavaran Culural Center have
delivered a poor performance of some of the great works of classical music,
including those by Bach ... FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* Revealing an Iran where the chadors are most chic
November 8, The New York Times - IN the sweepstakes for the title Most
Interesting and Accomplished Filmmaker the United States Has Never Heard
Of, Dariush Mehrjui has certain obvious advantages. While still in his
20's, the Iranian director made "The Cow" (1969), a film so powerful
that it not only was credited with launching Iran's modern cinema but also,
a decade later, made a fan of the Ayatollah Khomeini and thus helped assure
that country's cinema of having a post-Revolutionary phase... FULL TEXT
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