Archive for March 2011
Seven Servants
Director: Daryush ShokofWriters: Julianne Schulze / Daryush ShokofProducers: Bahman Maghsoudlou, Stefan JonasStarring: Anthony Quinn, David Warner, Alexandra Stewart,John Wojda, Reza DavoudiMusic: Gato BarbieriA Das Werk Production1996, Color, 90 min., USA-Germany Archie is a rich old man who lives alone with his maid Anya; he is philosophical, funny, and yet “incomplete” as a creature. He longs…
Read MoreIranian Cinema: Searching For The Roots (1900-1979)
Writer, Producer, Director: Bahman MaghsoudlouExecutive Producer: Bijan MaghsoudlouAssociate Producer: Behrouz MaghsoudlouWriter/Consultant: Mohammad Tahaminejad (Iranian Film Critics/Historian)A long documentary in productionIran-USA Iranian cinema is recognized today as one of the most significant, poetic and humanistic national cinemas to emerge onto the world scene. But while it is rapidly becoming better known around the world, most audiences…
Read MoreIran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments
Camera: Nezam Kiaie, Bahram Molaie, Hassan Yazdani, Jean Francois Chevallier, Bahman MaghsoudlouSound: Nazam Kiaee, Bahram Molaie, Jean Francois ChevallierNarrator: Mohammad Reza AshtianiGraphic Design: Serge HamadPoster: Abbas Kia-RostamiEditor: Haleh JavanshirAssociate Producer: Behzad Maghsoudlou MDCo-Producer: Behrouz Maghsoudlou (1948-2008)Co-Executive Producer: Behrouz Maghsoudlou (1948-2008)Executive Producer: Bijan MaghsoudlouDirector/ Producer: Bahman MaghsoudlouIran/USA, Color, & B/W, 52 minutes, 2009International Film & Video…
Read MoreThe Political Life and Legacy of Mossadegh*
Director/Producer: Bahman MaghsoudlouWriters: Fakhreddin Azimi, Khosrow ShakeriExecutive Producer: Bijan Maghsoudlou, Behzad Maghsoudlou ,MDAssociate Producer: Behrouz MaghsoudlouCamera: Jean Francois Chevalleir, Bahram Mowlai, Steven Gladstone, Kambiz Kooshan, Afshin Javadi, Arman Najm, Marco Carraro, Paolo Poce, Mahmoud Oskoui, Mary Latvis, Mathieu Maillet, Nezam KiaieA long documentary in productionWith association of Historical Films Project Company This feature-length documentary, produced by Bahman…
Read MoreAhmad Mahmoud; A Noble Novelist
Director, Producer & Editor: Bahman MaghsoudlouExecutive Producer: Bijan MaghsoudlouAssociate Producer: Behrouz MaghsoudlouCamera: Shahriar Assadiwith:Farhang Farrahi, Javad Mojabi, Abass Pahlavan, Mohammad-Ali Sepanlou & Ebrahim YounesiColor, 59 min., 2004 Ahmad Mahmoud was born on December 25, 1931 in Ahwaz. In his youth he worked as a day laborer, driver, construction worker and suffered imprisonment for leftist political…
Read MoreTa’zieh; Another Narration
Director, Editor: Parviz JahedProducers: Parviz Jahed, Behrouz MaghsoudlouExecutive Producer: Bahman MaghsoudlouCamera: Mahmoud Mazra’atiWith: Jaber Anasori, Bahram Beyza’i, Peter Chelkowski,Abdol-ali Khalili, Laleh Taghian2001, Color, 75 min., Iran Ta’zieh or Shabih-Khani is one of the oldest and most authentic traditions of theater in Iran. It is a kind of theater based on agonizing life stories and fables…
Read MoreAhmad Shamlou; Master Poet of Liberty
Executive Producers: Behrouz Maghsoudlou, Akbar GhaharyProducer: Bahman Maghsoudlou1999, Color, 60 min., Documentary, Iran-USA A documentary about one of the most important Iranian poets and intellectual icons. Includes commentary by acclaimed Iranian filmmakers Bahram Beyza’i, Naser Taghva’i and Abbas Kia-Rostami. Also includes commentary from the following prominent Iranian intellectuals, artists, writers, poets and literary historians: Simin…
Read MoreLife In Fog
Writer, Director: Bahman GhobadiCamera: Bayram FazliEditor: Mohammad Ali SajadiSound: As’Ad KhoshnoudMusic: Ali Kohan-DeiriProducer: Behrouz MaghsoudlouExecutive Producer: Bahman Maghsoudlou1998, Color, 28 min., Documentary, Iran Synopsis: A fourteen-year-old boy, forced to provide for his younger siblings after the death of their parents, is driven to quit school and smuggle goods across the Iran/Iraq border. Featured in more…
Read MoreArdeshir Mohasses & His Caricatures
Camera: Manouchehr TabariEditor: Mohammad TahaminejadNarration: Fereydoun FarahandouzWith: Fereyoud Gilani, Javad Mojabi, Hooshang TaheriWriter, Director, Producer: Bahman MaghsoudlouIran, B/W, 20 minutes, 1972 This is a short documentary about a famous Iranian caricaturist, who died in 2008. This documentary, made in 1972, remains the sole film about a great artist who lived in self-exiled in New York…
Read MoreArdeshir Mohasses’ Accolades
“Iran has a serious cartoonist, whose talent and originality are beyond question.”— Stanley Mason, Graphis “The drama which Ardeshir has in his mind is also the conflict between individual consciousness in the modernized world and long-established customs. We do not find any differences between him and ourselves. His grotesque caricatures are the very fruits of his…
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