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21 September 2001 at 13 : 29 PM
Foreign, Classic Titles Thrive at NYC’s International Film & Video Center
New York – If you’re strolling down New York’s First Avenue in search of a video store, you’re liable to miss the little white storefront at 54th Street that is International Film & Video Center (IFVC). Unless, of course, you’re a fan of its eclectic mix of classic and foreign films not available at the […]
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7 January 2001 at 11 : 16 AM
IFVC Starts Production Work, New Video Label Company Also Launches New Web Site in Order To Host International Film Festival
New York — Facing growing uncertainties about the future of home-video retailing, New York retailer International Film & Video Center (IFVC) is branching out beyond traditional brick-and-mortar retail. Located near the United Nations on Manhattan’s East Side, the store specializes in classic and international films, but it is now moving into film production and has […]
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17 August 1999 at 15 : 15 PM
Persian Cat: An Iranian expatriate stays in time with independent films from his country Bahman Maghsoudlou, a resource for Iranian films in New York
New York-based, Iranian-born Bahman Maghsoudlou says “Iranian cinema today is ill.” And he should know. Maghsoudlou was a published film critic by age 15, a film magazine editor and documentary producer for Iranian TV who attended medical school, got a Ph.D. in film studies at Columbia and published the first history of Iranian films, all […]
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28 August 1998 at 15 : 41 PM
The Video Vampire: Will a ‘new-and-improved’ Blockbuster swallow mom-&-pop rental emporiums?
Feeling Fellini on short notice? Got a late-night itch for Lubitsch? Cinephiles know to bypass Blockbuster and beat it over to Bahman’s. Film scholar Bahman Maghsoudlou operates what has been recognized as one of the best video stores in Manhattan, in the entire country, even in the world. His International Film and Video Center won […]
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21 August 1997 at 15 : 21 PM
For Globetrotters
New York – Run by Bahman Maghsoudlou, a film producer and scholar from Iran, the International Film & Video Center gives over a third of the video rentalbins in its small midtown Manhattan duplex to foreign films. A large mail-order business in video sales, in the United States and abroad, really drives the store; this […]
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31 August 1995 at 15 : 54 PM
She gets what she wants
What does the woman who has everything buy for herself on her birthday? If she is Madonna, it’s Marlene Dietrich’s movie, Seven Sinners. (That’s the one in which Dietrich sings The Man’s in the Navy, in full military drag.) Madonna scoured video stores in Manhattan last week, right before she flew off to Miami for […]
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10 January 1995 at 12 : 07 PM
Behind the Counter and the Camera, Manhattan Video Center’s Owner Produces Feature Film
Bahman Maghsoudlou’s new production company, the International Film and Video Center, epitomizes the tenacity and ingenuity of independent filmmaking in New York. International Film and Video originated and still exists at Maghsoudlou’s video store, which specializes in selling and renting foreign films, art/historical classics, documentaries and other rare titles as well as mainstream films. Maghsoudlou, […]
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21 November 1994 at 14 : 05 PM
Manhattan By Numbers: True Grit And An Orwellian Spirit
New York- Amir Naderi’s Manhattan By Numbers manages to become a mesmerizing quest for meaning simply by projecting Manhattan into the foreground and its narrative in the background. Is this the city (or, rather, the borough) that launched a thousand dreams? Hardly. Mr. Naderi is closer in spirit to the George Orwell of Down and […]
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21 November 1994 at 14 : 26 PM
N.Y. Retailer Installs Art For Video’s Sake Setting Store Apart Is Key For Classics/Import Specialist
New York- Bahman Maghsoudlou, the Iranian expatriate film scholar and author who has successfully moved into movie production from his International Film & Video Center in Manhattan, has devised a way to further distinguish his store from the competition: He has turned it into an art gallery. Maghsoudlou has just hung six paintings by Daryush […]
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21 October 1992 at 14 : 30 PM
N.Y. Retailer Segues Into Film Production Foreign-Vid Focus Prompts Link With Iranian Director
New York- Film scholar Bahman Maghsoudlou, whose Manhattan video retail store International Film & Video Center is nationally recognized for its focus on classic and foreign films, is moving toward the first half of his company name. While planning consolidation of his two small 1st Avenue locations into a single bigger dealership, Maghsoudlou […]
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