Archive for December 2014
Love and Liberty in Cinema
Author: Bahman MaghsoudlouPublisher: Moin, Tehran, 2003ISBN: 964-7603-12-6Pages: In Farsi, 360 pages This book takes a vivid and comprehensive look at three films, each made by a pantheon director of European cinema. The first chapter looks at liberty as represented by Jean Renoir’s masterpiece Grand Illusion, made in 1937 right before World War II. Aside from an overview of Renoir’s…
Read MoreAhmad Shamlou: Master Poet of Liberty
Author: Bahman MaghsoudlouEdition: First Edition Spring 2008Publisher: Ketab Corp., USAPrice: USD20.00Pages: In Farsi & English, 164 pages This is the first in a series of books about films produced by IFVC and its president/founder Bahman Maghsoudlou. This book deals with the two-year production of this feature documentary about one of Irans most important writers, poets and intellectuals. English content includes:…
Read MoreThis Side of the Mind & The Other Side of the Pupil
Author: Bahman MaghsoudlouEdited by: Parviz JahedPublisher: Nila, Tehran, 1999ISBN: 964-91750-6-7Pages: In Farsi, 350 Pages This book collects eleven interviews conducted by the author in the USA during the 1970s. Six are with directors (Milos Forman, Otto Preminger, Nicholas Ray, Paul Mazursky, Dennis Hopper, and Jean-Louis Bertucelli), two with film critics (Andrew Sarris and John Simon) and one with a writer…
Read MoreIranian Cinema
Author: Bahman MaghsoudlouPreface by: Andrew Sarris>Foreword by: Peter ChelkowskiPublisher: Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University,1987ISBN: PN1998.M251985, 016.79143750955, 84-28961Pages: 528 pages This was the first academic book about Iranian Cinema to be published in the west in English. The book consists of three parts: a chronology of Iranian Cinema, a complete annotated filmography of all Iranian feature films…
Read MoreGrass: Untold Stories
Author: Bahman MaghsoudlouIntroduction by: Kevin BrownlowPublisher: MazdaPrice: USD45.00ISBN: 1-56859-221-3; ISBN 13: 978-1-56859-221-3 (hardcover) When World War I ended in 1918, the world had changed. The face of Europe was reshaped, its boundaries altered, and Communism had taken over Russia. Many Americans were there to witness this, among them Merian C. Cooper, an Air Force pilot, Ernest B. Schoedsack, an…
Read MoreMy Interview with Joan Fontaine, Only Actor to Win Oscar in Hitchcock Film
Joan Fontaine, who won an Academy Award for Best Actress for director Alfred Hitchcock’s 1941 movie Suspicion, died Sunday, December 15, 2013, at her home in Carmel, California. Hitchcock himself did not win an Academy Award until 1979, when he was recognized for his lifetime achievement, but Fontaine, born October 22, 1917 in Tokyo, the younger…
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