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14 April 2014 at 11 : 40 AM
Abbas Kiarostami: A Report, in Montreal Film Festival, Toronto, Washington DC
Abbas Kiarostami: A Report has its world premiere at the 2013 Montreal International Film Festival. To read about the festival’s program, click here. Mr. Maghsoudlou attended the festival and was interviewed. You can read the interview here. On Sunday, December 15, 2013, the documentary was screened at the Paria Foundation at 344 John Street, Markham, […]
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2 March 2014 at 16 : 32 PM
Alain Renais and A Golden Opportunity
Alain Resnais, a founding figure of the French new wave, passed away on Saturday, March 1, 2014, in Paris. He was 91 years old. Resnais’s complex style consisted of innovative camera movement, long tracking shots, and the use of flashback as a way of exploring memory, particularly in such masterpieces of fractured time as Hiroshima […]
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4 February 2014 at 17 : 25 PM
One Weekend and Trio of Death
The last weekend of January 2014 and beginning of february is going to be marked a black and sad weekend because we lost three legends in cinema: a great director and two giant actors. Miklos Jancso (1921-2014) the greatest Hungarian modernist director died on Friday the last day of January Master of the long take […]
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15 December 2013 at 16 : 42 PM
My 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 […]
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13 December 2013 at 17 : 21 PM
83rd Session of Toronto Book Club
On the 83rd session of the Toronto Book Club, Bahman Maghsoudlou, the author of Grass: Untold Stories, reviewed the making of the feature documentary of Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life in detail. Although it was a cold night in Toronto, the auditorium was filled with enthusiastic people. The lecture ended with a “Q&A” session […]
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5 December 2013 at 16 : 53 PM
Death of Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela, a very rare jewel among the leaders and history of the mankind, has just passed away. He was a man of dignity who is shining on earth for his unique qualities for good. He forgives but not forgets. Condolences to all of us.
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10 September 2013 at 16 : 16 PM
Cliff Robertson (1925-2011)
Cliff Robertson died last night, Saturday on Stony Brook, Long Island, New York. He acted in more than fifty films in span of fifty years. I never forget “the Best Man” (1962) directed by Farnklin Schaffner and written by great Gore Vidal. I am fortunate that had opportunity to interview both Schaffner and Robertson later […]
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6 August 2013 at 16 : 33 PM
Moviement Magazine, special issue about Amir Naderi
Moviement, a cultural movie magazine in Italy, has just published a special issue about world-renowned Iranian filmmaker Amir Naderi. The editor, Gemma Lanzo, has created an excellent reference about Naderi, with particular attention to his American films. As the author of Iranian Cinema and other books on film, I had the privilege of contributing two […]
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22 May 2013 at 12 : 55 PM
Dr. Amir Houshang Kavousi (1925-2013)
I have just received the devastating news that my beloved close friend and mentor Dr. Amir Houshang Kavousi passed away in the hospital in Tehran, Iran. The new era in Iranian cinema was foreshadowed by him, the first Iranian graduate of Paris’s IDHEC in 1947, who returned home afterwards and commenced a long and tremendously […]
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15 May 2013 at 17 : 17 PM
Why I interviewed Giulio Andreotti (1919-2013)
Giulio Andreotti, former premier of Italy, died last week on May 6th at age 94. He was one of postwar Italy’s most powerful politicians, helping to draft the country’s constitution after World War II. He spent sixty years in parliament and served as Italy’s premier for seven terms. For the last several years, I have […]
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