Film Society of Los Angeles
Posted by By ifvc at 24 January, at 15 : 14 PM Print
On Sunday, January 24th at 6:30PM, the Film Society of Los Angeles in its 91st program, presented a lecture/book signing by Dr. Bahman Maghsoudlou for his latest book Grass: Untold Stories, including a screening of an unforgettable, newly digitized print of the film Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life, the subject of the book.
Grass: Untold Stories, published by Mazda Publishers Inc., is the extraordinary story of the adventures of three American explorers, leading up to the making of the documentary movie Grass, filmed and produced by Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack and Marguerite Harrison among the Bakhtiari tribe of southwest Iran in 1924. The film is a vivid record of the almost insurmountable difficulties that faced the tribe when they migrated twice yearly in their search for green pasture. The two male filmmakers were later to gain fame as the creators of King Kong.
Mr. Hassan Fayyad, a writer, literary translator and filmmaker, and founder of the Film Society of Los Angeles, opened the night’s program, and then Mr. Parviz Nazerian, the distinguished Iranian film critic, writer and filmmaker, introduced Mr. Maghsoudlou.
