Los Angeles hosts annual showcase featuring extensive array of work from contemporary and veteran film-makers
The annual celebration of Iranian cinema run by the University of California, Los Angeles, is a vital occasion for two dynamic and overlapping constituencies: cinephiles and Iranians in Los Angeles. The festival's screenings routinely draw large audiences, eager to see films from a nation distinguished by its rich and sustained contribution to world cinema. This year's programme underscored the depth and diversity of cinematic voices in Iranian life.
In recent years, the archive has expanded the scope to include older films, working with Iran's national film archive and exiled filmmakers such as Parviz Sayyad to present seminal works such as The Lor Girl (Dokhtar-e Lor; 1933), directed by Ardeshir Irani; Masoud Kimiai's Caesar (Qaisar; 1969); and Sayyad's own Dead End (Bon Bast; 1977). This year, the festival began with a screening of Bahram Beyzaie's first feature film,...
The annual celebration of Iranian cinema run by the University of California, Los Angeles, is a vital occasion for two dynamic and overlapping constituencies: cinephiles and Iranians in Los Angeles. The festival's screenings routinely draw large audiences, eager to see films from a nation distinguished by its rich and sustained contribution to world cinema. This year's programme underscored the depth and diversity of cinematic voices in Iranian life.
In recent years, the archive has expanded the scope to include older films, working with Iran's national film archive and exiled filmmakers such as Parviz Sayyad to present seminal works such as The Lor Girl (Dokhtar-e Lor; 1933), directed by Ardeshir Irani; Masoud Kimiai's Caesar (Qaisar; 1969); and Sayyad's own Dead End (Bon Bast; 1977). This year, the festival began with a screening of Bahram Beyzaie's first feature film,...
- 7/31/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
At the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York last week some of us were lucky enough to enjoy Pomegranates: Like a Phoenix from the Ashes, a fascinating compilation of rare film clips, commercials and music videos from Sixties and Seventies Iran, a cinematic follow-up to the superb Pomegranates compilation of pre-revolutionary Persian pop, funk and folk on the Finders Keepers record label.
Curated by Mahssa Taghinia and Tom Fitzgerald, the evening included such gems as this must-see clip of the amazing Faroozan—a Persian cross between Rita Hayworth and Fergie—as well as extended clips from what Taghinia described as three of the most important films of the period: Gheysar (a.k.a. Qeysar) (1969), Gavaznha (The Deer) (1975), and Bon Bast (Dead End) (1977).
This led me, naturally, on a search for movie posters of the era, of which there is very little written online. Even the Iranian-born, London-based poster-buff...
Curated by Mahssa Taghinia and Tom Fitzgerald, the evening included such gems as this must-see clip of the amazing Faroozan—a Persian cross between Rita Hayworth and Fergie—as well as extended clips from what Taghinia described as three of the most important films of the period: Gheysar (a.k.a. Qeysar) (1969), Gavaznha (The Deer) (1975), and Bon Bast (Dead End) (1977).
This led me, naturally, on a search for movie posters of the era, of which there is very little written online. Even the Iranian-born, London-based poster-buff...
- 8/21/2010
- MUBI
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