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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
LONDON.- Xerxes Fine Arts holds the first solo show, outside of the Persian Gulf, of the renowned Iranian film maker, actress and artist Mania Akbari. The Many Faces of Eve, is an exhibition of two series of photographic works on canvas by Akbari which explore feminism and the role of women in post-Revolutionary Iranian society and the rest of the world. Individual and social
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
MADURAI: A visual treat is in the offing for both children and adults in the city as the fifth Madurai International Children Film Festival-2008 opens on November 14. It will be inaugurated by Darez Ahmed, Additional Collector (Development) ...
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Indian Express (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
It was not just these. In the huge offering of world cinema, I found these stories. Cleopatra is a sweet version of Thelma and Louise - both running from exploitative husbands in a journey of freedom and the search for one's identity.
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
Film Reviews »TIMES AND WINDS/BES VAKITDONALD CLARKEDirected by Reha Erdem. Starring Ali Bey Kayali, Elit Iscan, Ozakan Ozen, Ozkan Ozen, Selma Ergec, Tarik Sonmez Club, IFI, Dublin, 111 min ****ON PAPER this extraordinary Turkish film reads like a slice of dusty realism in the vein of Abbas Kiarostami and his fellow Iranian pioneers, but, despite the intimacy of its concerns, it turns out to have...
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
Tanuja Chandra tells SNIGDHA POONAM in small, quirky films there is no compulsion to play safe
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Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 16/10/2008
We've got some 18,000 films (and counting) in our database, so next time you're stuck for something to watch on a Friday night, check out our list of reviews: by title, actor, director or star rating.
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Observations on Film Art (Free subscription) | 14/10/2008
Our final post from this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival. Plenty to talk about, so today you get your money’s worth. Oh, wait….it’s free. So you definitely get your money’s worth. Kristin here— East If Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf have been the most prestigious Iranian directors, with their features prominent at film festivals, Majid Majidi has been among [...]
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Film Reviews »ALEXANDRA/ALEKSANDRADONALD CLARKEDirected by Alexander Sokurov. Starring Galina Vishnevskaya, Vasily Shevtsov, Raisa GichaevaClub, IFI, Dublin, 95 minWE ARE, in this corner of Europe, a little wary of discussing what it means to be Russian. A view persists that, having lost (or, at least, failed to win) the Cold War, the people of that nation should sit quietly and wait to become American....
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
There is still plenty of strong work to be found at the Toronto International Film Festival, especially in the flourishing world of truly independent filmmaking.
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
NEW YORK.- MoMA Presents, an initiative launched earlier this year that brings weeklong runs of new and newly rediscovered feature films to The Museum of Modern Art, continues in September with extended runs of new films by Todd McCarthy (Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema), Béla Tarr (The Man from London), and Carlos Reygadas (Silent Light). All three films are receiving their first American
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Talk to Sam Logan Khaleghi of West Bloomfield and the question isn't whether he'll make it in the film industry. The question is how quickly. "Passion is contagious," says the ambitious 25-year-old, whose debut feature, "Love Is a Thieves' Game," makes its debut Friday at Oakland Community College's Orchard Ridge Campus.
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Filmmaker Magazine: Blog (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
The FilmInFocus site has just undergone what is in my opinion a very nice 2.0-ish facelift, with a much cleaner new design and better organization of articles. (I'm one of the editors of this site along with Peter Bowen and Nick Dawson.) Please check it out, and to give you a leg up, here's some new stuff on the site that I recommend: Filmmaker's Jason Guerrasio explores the cult of The Big
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
His 1990 La bohème for Australian Opera was developed into a Broadway version in 2002. It won rave reviews but lost money. Cites opera as a major influence on his cinematic work.Anthony MinghellaHis beautiful if heavily stylised 2005 staging of Madame Butterfly was a big hit for English National Opera. It transferred to New York’s Metropolitan Opera in 2006 and returns to ENO next year.Abbas Kiarostami...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
A history of the cinematic gesture of the close-up on a woman's face, from Falconetti to Kiarostami
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Reel Suave (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
Abbas Kiarostami is the winner of the 65th Venice Film Festival’s Glory to the Filmmaker Award, which honors eclectic masters of world cinema. The prize had begun last year with the Japanese director Takeshi Kitano named the first recipient of the award. Kitano handed over the prize this year to Kiarostami in a ceremony in the Lido’s Sala Grande. Kiarostami is in Venice once again with an experimental...
