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19 April 2011 at 21 : 43 PM
Films of the ’60s
L’Avventura, France-Italy, 1960, 145 min. Starring Monica Vitti, Gabriele Ferzetti, Lea Massari. Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. When her friend goes missing during a holiday trip, a young woman and the man the friend was seeing search for her, but the girl isn’t the only one who’s lost. Antonioni burst on to the international scene with […]
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19 April 2011 at 21 : 30 PM
Films of the ’50s
In a Lonely Place, USA, 1950, 91 min. Starring Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy. Directed by Nicholas Ray. Grahame finds herself falling in love with volatile screenwriter Bogart, only his temper could be a problem. That and there’s a possibility he may be have murdered someone. Intelligent drama has a lot to say about […]
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19 April 2011 at 20 : 04 PM
Films of the ’40s
The Grapes of Wrath, USA, 1940, 129 min. Starring Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine. Directed by John Ford. John Steinbeck’s novel of the Depression (and the politics it helped foster) gets top flight treatment by Ford. The director continues his study of the move westward while effectively portraying Tom Joad’s struggle to understand the […]
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19 April 2011 at 20 : 59 PM
Films of the ’30s
The Blue Angel, Germany, 1930, 103 min. Starring Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings. Directed by Josef von Sternberg. Jannings was the star, but Dietrich ended up stealing the show with her star-making role as cabaret chanteuse Lola Lola. Includes her rendition of ‘Falling in Love Again.’ L’Age d’Or, France, 1930, 63 min. Starring Gaston Modot, Lya […]
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19 April 2011 at 20 : 33 PM
Silent Films
The Birth Of A Nation, USA, 1915, 186 min. Starring Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall. Directed by D. W. Griffith. Two friendly families find themselves at odds with each other when forced to choose sides in the Civil War. Extremely controversial owing to its seemingly pro-segregationist politics and unquestionable lionizing of the Klan, […]
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4 April 2011 at 12 : 16 PM
Washington, D.C.
The Iranian Cultural Association of Washington, D.C. sponsored a screening of Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments on one of its regular Monday meeting nights on April 4 at 8PM. Ms. Pativash Moghadam opened the evening by speaking briefly about Kanoon. Mr. Bahram Zandi, who was responsible for selecting the film, read a short […]
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2 April 2011 at 12 : 28 PM
Maghsoudlou Inducted into PEN American Center
Bahman Maghsoudlou is now a member of the PEN American Center, the US branch of the celebrated collective of writers known as International PEN, a worldwide organization founded in the wake of World War I as a way of combating the various divisions that the world was then experiencing in regard to ethnicity and border. […]
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23 March 2011 at 18 : 32 PM
Asudem
Director: Daryush Shokof Director of Photography: Daryush Shokof Screenwriter:Daryush Shokof Co-writer: Juliane Schulze Camera: Daryoush Zandi Costume Designer: Claudia Torsiello Editors: Daryoush Zandi, Tom Dokoupil Sound: Falko Seidel Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Tom Dokoupil Visual Effects Animator: Tom Dokoupil Co-producer: Arthur Voigt Associate Producer: Bahman Maghsoudlou Starring: Yangzom Brauen, Narges Rashidi, Ernest Allan Hausmann, Benjamin Morik, […]
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23 March 2011 at 18 : 57 PM
SmoQing
Director: Daryush Shokof Screenplay: Daryush Shokof Casting: FAS Film Acting School, Cologne Camera: Daryoush Zandi Assistant Director: Nick Dong Sick Editor: Daryoush Zandi Music Composer: Tom Dokoupil Music Editor: Tom Dokoupil Digital Visual Effects Designer: Tom Dokoupil Starring: Melinda Y. Cohen Producer: Daryush Shokof Producer: Bahman Maghsoudlou Production: Godhattan Productions 2007, Color, 10 min., USA/Germany […]
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23 March 2011 at 18 : 17 PM
The Other Side Of The Broken Wall
Writer, Director: Behrouz Maghsoudlou Based on a short story by Davoud Hosseini Cast: Feizollah Mehdikhani, Parvin Maikadeh, Mehdi Bitarafan Camera: Babak Bazrafshan Sound: Amir Hatami Music: Iman Vaziri Editing: Zhila Ipackchi Line Producer: Mojtaba Bitarafan Executive Producers: Bijan Maghsoudlou, Behzad Maghsoudlou Producer: Bahman Maghsoudlou Iran/USA, 2006, 24 min., Color, In Farsi with English Subtitles Two […]
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