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Friday
August 4, 2000
Venice: Iranian invasion
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- The upcoming Venice film fest will include several
new Iranian films, including Jafar Panahi's "Daayereh" (The circle)
which will be screened for the first time. The Makhmalbaf's, father and
daughter, will also be there. One as a director, the other a jury member
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Karimi: Me too!
Tehran (Cinema) -- Niki Karimi is not just a pretty face. She wants
to lessen her movie roles and make her own film. Everybody else is, so
why not her?
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Poet tries acting
Tehran (Cinema) -- Poet/author Mohammad Ali Sepanloud will soon be acting
in a film. He slips into movies "every 15 years or so" he says
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* Venice: Iranian invasion
* Karimi: Me too!
* Poet tries acting
* Googoosh's husband summoned to court
* Iranian films on CD
* Iraj is (also) back
* Situation comedy on TV
* Aghdashlou on realist art
* Nothing wrong with laughing
* Historic objects stollen
* Popular "Dirty hands"
* Film industry owes large sum to banks
* Beihaqi: National monument
* Shamlou's other legacy: "Ketaab-e Koocheh"
* Iran's who's who
* Iranian cinema: 100 years
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Thursday
August 3, 2000
Googoosh's husband summoned to court
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iranian officials have summoned the film director
husband of pop star Googoosh to court over a film they say violates the
Islamic dress code, a newspaper reported Thursday. Supporters of Googoosh
and her husband, Masood Kimiai, said the move was an attack by hardliners
on the increasing cultural freedoms associated with moderate President
Mohammad Khatami >>>
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Iranian films on CD
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- Iranian films of the past 100 years will be recorded
on CDs and stored at the Cinema Museum. Also a web site will be created
for the museum >>>
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Iraj is (also) back
Tehran (Iran daily) -- Hossein Khajeh Amiri, better to known as Iraj,
will sing in Tehran for the first time since the 1979 revolution >>> FULL TEXT
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Situation comedy on TV
Tehran (Jam-e Jan) -- "Khaastegaari-ye por maaheraa" is a
situation comedy -- or "komedi-ye moqeiyat"! -- currently under
production for Iranian TV >>>
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Wednesday
August 2, 2000
Aghdashlou on realist art
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- An interview with painter Aydin Aghdashlou about
the display of realist artwork at the Museum of Contemporary Arts >>> FULL
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Nothing wrong with laughing
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- Mana Neyestani, one of Iran's leading cartoonists,
has published some of his recent work in "Khandidan ghadeghan neest"
-- Nothing wrong with laughing >>>
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Historic objects stollen
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- Burglars break into Abgineh Museum in Tehran and
steal objects >>>
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Tuesday
August 1, 2000
Popular "Dirty hands"
Tehran (Bahr) -- "Dast-haaye aaludeh" (Dirty hands) directed
by Siroos Alvand was number one at the box office last week. Here are more
stats >>>
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Film industry owes large sum to banks
Tehran (Bahr) -- Loans owed to banks (1.5 billion tomans, total) are
hurting the Iranian film industry, according to a report submitted to the
film council >>>
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Beihaqi: National monument
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- The tomb of the renouned 6th century AH scholar
Beihaqi in Sabzevar has been registered as a national monument >>> FULL
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Monday
July 31, 2000
Shamlou's other legacy: "Ketaab-e Koocheh"
Tehan (Bahar) -- Ahamd Shamlou's "Ketaab-e Koocheh" is tremendous
effort in collecting words and expressions used by commoners. The ninth
volume was published just before his death >>>FULL
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Iran's who's who
Tehan (Bahar) -- Yaghoub Ajand is working on Iran's who's who. Files
have been created for some 600,000 people in various fields >>>FULL
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Iranian cinema: 100 years
Tehan (Bahar) -- The film industry is marking 100 years of cinema during
the fourth annual celebration of Iranian cinema >>>FULL
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