21 August 2014 at 06 : 48 AM

Simin Behbahani (1927-2014)

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Simin Behbahani, the legendary Iranian poet, died on Monday, August 18, 2014, while in the hospital in Tehran. She was 87 years old. Her powerful humanistic and patriotic poetry, particularly during the second part of her life, made her a giant in Iranian contemporary literature and an idol to progressively-minded Iranians everywhere. We lost an […]

16 August 2014 at 13 : 09 PM

زندگی نامه کوتاه بهمن مقصودلو

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دکتر بهمن مقصود لو منتقد و پژوهشگر سینما  برای  نگارش و ویرایش مجموعه کتاب هایی درباره سینما و تئاتر جایزه ی ادبی  و معتبر فروغ فرخزاد را در سال ۱۳۵۳ (۱۹۷۴) بخود اختصاص داد.  کتاب او، “سینمای ایران”  توسط  مرکز مطالعات خاورمیانه  دانشگاه  نیویورک در سال ۱۹۸۷ منتشر شد و مورد تحسین  قرار گرفت. نشست […]

16 August 2014 at 12 : 46 PM

Bahman Maghsoudlou: Short Biography

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Film scholar and critic Bahman Maghsoudlou is the recipient of Iran’s prestigious Forough Farrokhzad literary award for writing and editing a series of books about cinema and theater. These include the widely acclaimed IranianCinema, which was published in 1987 by New York University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Maghsoudlou’s activities involving international cinema further include […]

11 August 2014 at 11 : 05 AM

“A Report”: A Study of Abbas Kiarostami’s Cinema

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By Amir Taheri The decades’ long political confrontation between Iran and the United States is known to almost anyone interested in international politics. Less known, however, is the rivalry between the two in offering different visions of the seventh art, cinema. The Venice Film Festival, starting this week, provides a new forum for the two […]

18 July 2014 at 11 : 15 AM

Bahman Maghsoudlou to be Jury Member at Montreal Festival

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Bahman Maghsoudlou is honored to have been chosen to be a member of the jury of the First Films World Competition for the Festival des Films du Monde in Montreal to be held from August 29th to September 1st, 2014. The festival’s theme of international harmony through art is one very close to Mr. Maghsoudlou’s […]

12 July 2014 at 14 : 53 PM

Paul Mazursky (1930-2014): His Cinema and My Interview

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Paul Mazursky, the talented, versatile American actor, writer, director and producer (and avowed atheist) died on Monday June 30 in Los Angeles. He was 84 years old. Mazursky was born into a working class family in Brooklyn, New York. He began acting in his college years. His two most important early experiences were in Stanley […]

8 July 2014 at 14 : 54 PM

«یک روز با دکتر بهمن مقصودلو، یک گزارش»

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— مهدی مرعشی

ایده‌ی برنامه «یک روز با بهمن مقصودلو» سپتامبر گذشته در جشنواره فیلم مونترال و هنگام اولین نمایش جهانی فیلم عباس کیارستمی: یک گزارش پیدا شد. این ایده که بشود نشست و چند فیلم از دکتر بهمن مقصودلو را همراه با خود او در یک روز دید، کاری که کمتر شده و اگر می‌شد فرصت خوبی بود برای همه. ایده را که مطرح کردم آقای مقصودلو همچون همیشه با روی خوش پذیرفت و قبول کرد یک روز را به مونترال بیاید، فیلم‌هایش را نمایش بدهد و همراه با مخاطبانش باشد. مجریان و حامیان برنامه چند ماهی را دویدند و تلاش کردند تا همه چیز در خور و شایسته پیش برود.

22 May 2014 at 15 : 10 PM

زندگی‌نامه‌ی بهمن مقصودلو

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View in English Wikipedia دکتر بهمن مقصودلو منتقد، نویسنده، پژوهشگر سینمائی، تهیه کننده و فیلم ساز بیش از  40 سال است که در عرصه سینمای جهانی فعالیت دارد.  ایشان به عنوان ژوری، سخنران و تهیه کننده و یا فیلمساز دربسیاری از جشنواره های معتبر جهانی (مونترال 2014 (شرکت کرده است.   اضافه  برآن، به عنوان نویسنده […]

17 May 2014 at 13 : 36 PM

Ahmad Shamlou (A Short Biography)

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Ahmand Shamlou and Bahman Maghsoudlou Ahmad Shamlou, Iran’s most celebrated contemporary poet, is universally acknowledged by critics, artists and intellectuals alike, as the peer of other prominent world-renowned poets. Born in 1925, his literary life-span covers the last 60 years. This is a literary life which has coincided with and influenced the great process of […]

17 May 2014 at 13 : 45 PM

Chronology of Ahmad Shamlou’s Life & Work

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Shamlou & Ayda 1925- Ahmad Shamlou (or Shamloo) was born on December 12 in Tehran to a family that was to move around Iran because of the duties of his father who was an army officer. 1938- Shamlou leaves high school to enroll in the Technical College of Tehran. 1942- His father takes him to […]