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* Film: Samira Makhmalbaf
claims her own spotlight
* Art: Behzad home to be
restored
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* Music: Shahin &
Sepehr: From myriad travels comes a 'World Cafe'
* Concert review: S &
SVirginia concert
* Literature: Nobel prize
for Portuguese writer
* Music: Interview: Hossein
Alizadeh
* Photography: International
show in Tehran
* Film:"Shah"
will be made - director
* Film: Hollywood film about
Iran's royal jewels
* Film: "Banoo" still
banned
* Film: Independent film award
nominees
* Poetry: Sepehri's 70th birthday
* Poetry: Sepehri's 70th
birthday
* Music: "The Wall"
in Persian
* Poetry: Malek-o-Shoaray Bahar
* Film:Iranian film awarded
in Spain
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* Behzad's home to be restored
TEHRAN, (Hamshahri) - The home of the late great miniatursit Hossein
Behzad will be restored as a national monument... FULL
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* Samira Makhmalbaf claims her own spotlight
Newsweek, Oct 19, 1998 - Samira Makhmalbaf is running late for another
interview. "This must be what it's like to have a teenager,"
mutters the New York publicist who has been hired to help promote "The
Apple," Makhmalbaf's debut feature film. Her client has a good excuse--she
is a teenager. She is also Iranian, and, at 18, the youngest person ever
to show a feature work at the New York Film Festival. "The Apple"
played there three weeks ago and will open in Germany, Belgium, Italy and
other markets over the next few months... FULL
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* Shahin & Sepehr: Virginia concert
Washington Post, Oct 20 - Despite the success they've enjoyed in "smooth
jazz" circles, guitarists Shahin Shahida and Sepehr Haddad gave a
performance at the Birchmere's Band Stand Friday night not nearly as predictable
as ties to that genre might suggest. A curious and often percussive mix
of Middle Eastern melodies, Latin rhythms, contemporary dance beats, Western
pop themes and fusion jazz coloring, the duo's concert offered a globe-trotting
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* Shahin & Sepehr: From myriad travels comes a 'World Cafe'
Washington Post, Oct 16 - WHEN Shahin Shahida was a seventh-grader at
the International School of Tehran some 25 years ago, he was a precociously
good guitar player, a fact that earned him a pass into the cooler circles
of the older kids, like ninth-grader Sepehr Haddad. Sepehr (who, like Shahin,
prefers to be called by simply his first name) played a pretty decent guitar
too, and the two of them often found themselves playing together. With
their fourth CD, "World Cafe," recently released by Higher Octave
records, Shahin & Sepehr find their profile high enough in "world
beat" circles that they can regularly tour abroad. "We were in
Italy this summer and got interviewed on national TV," says Shahin,
"and the woman at the station showed us all these magazines with reviews
and articles about us. I had no idea we were getting so much attention!"...
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* International photo show in Tehran
TEHRAN, (Hamshahri) - Two reports on the biannual international photo
contest... FULL
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* Nobel prize for Portuguese writer
TEHRAN, (Hamshahri) - On the winner of this year's Nobel Pirze for literature,
Saramago of Protugal... FULL
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* Interview: Hossein Alizadeh
TEHRAN, (Hamshahri) - ... Last part of an interview on Persian classical
music. (Couldn't find earlier parts of the interview)... FULL
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* "Shah" will be made - director
TEHRAN, (Hamshahri) - "Shah" a film orginally-based on a book
written by Masoud Behnoud has faced numerous obstacles during production.
But director Kiumars Pourahmad insists that he will make the film (also
known as "Cabinet") no matter what... FULL
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* Hollywood film about Iran's royal jewels
NEW YORK (Variety) - Disney-based producers Barry Sonnenfeld and Barry
Josephson have picked up New York scribe Richard Regen's heist spec script
``Kill Van Kull'' for a mid-six-figure price tag. The project is about
a double-crossing triangle of Gen-X jewel thieves that targets the Royal
jewels of Iran. When its leader, Simon, is betrayed by his partners and
sent to jail, he breaks out and seeks revenge... FULL
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* "Banoo" still banned
TEHRAN, (Hamshahri) - Despite rumors that the ban on Dariush Mehrjouie's
"Banoo" has been lifted, the film still has not received permission
to screen, nearly five years after it was first made... FULL
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* Independent film award nominees
TEHRAN, (Hamshahri) - Iran's independent House of Film has announced
a list of films nominated for various awards... FULL
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* Sepehri's 70th birthday
TEHRAN, (Hamshahri) - Some say Sohrab Sepehri did not write poetry about
social ills. But so what? ... FULL
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* "The Wall" in Persian
TEHRAN, (Hamshahri) - Pink Floyd's "The Wall" -- which is
an example of "mardomi" (popular) Western music -- has been translated
into Persian in Iran ... FULL
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* Malek-o-Shoaray Bahar
TEHRAN, (Hamshahri) - A feature celebrating the life and times of Malek-o-Shoaray
Bahar... FULL
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* Iranian film awarded in Spain
TEHRAN (Hamshahri) - Abolfazl Jalili's "Dan" wins the juror's
prize in a Spanish film festival... FULL
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