Sentences with phrase «iranian film»

Featured works include Forugh Farrokhzad's landmark Iranian film The House Is Black (1963), Louis Malle's Calcutta (1969), Boris Kaufman's Les Halles centrales (1927), André Survage's Etudes sur Paris (1928), and Victor Trivas» Niemandsland (No Man's Land)(1931), presented by Eric Le Roy, chef de service at the CNC and president of FIAF, the International Federation of Film Archives.

He broke through with «A Separation,» the first Iranian film to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and increased his reputation with «The Past» two years later.

These arguably the foundations in his personal history that allowed him to become first Iranian Oscar winner for his Iranian film A Separation (2011), which was about a divorce but more broadly, contrasting views of an incident.

Se Rokh / 3 Faces Jafar Panahi — Iran IN A NUTSHELL This Iranian film follows three actresses at different stages of their career.

The film made history by becoming the first Iranian film to win an Academy Award.

The best Iranian film in years, invisible in its own country save for a series of screenings at the latest Fajr Film Festival, a sum of Banietemad's work (both fictional and documentary): characters from some of her earlier films meet and have complex, intimate interactions over the landscape of contemporary Tehran.

The Salesman, directed by Iranian film - maker Asghar Farhadi, who is boycotting the ceremony because of Donald Trump's travel ban, has won the foreign language film Oscar.

Writer - director Bahman Ghobadi returned to his native village near the Iran - Iraq border to make his feature debut (2000), the first Iranian film in Kurdish.

According to a report on Huffington Post, despite having previously trumpeted A Separation's Oscar win as a national triumph Iranian authorities have canceled an event to be hosted by leading Iranian film groups in honor of Asghar Farhadi's contribution to the country's cinema.

The fifth feature from About Elly writer / director Asghar Farhadi, and the first Iranian film to win the Golden Bear for best film at the Berlin Film Festival (as well as earning best actor and actress awards for the excellent ensemble cast at the same event), A Separation tells a personal tale rampant with politics.

After capturing the Golden Bear at Berlin, the feature, Farhadi's fifth, went on to rake in unprecedented earnings for an Iranian film as well as a stream of honors that culminated in its becoming the first Iranian film to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

KANDAHAR This Iranian film is a look into the horrors of poverty in Afghanistan and an expose of the tyrannies of the Taliban.

The Iranian film The Salesman is shortlisted for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

A - A Separation Rated PG - 13 for mature thematic material Available on DVD and Blu - ray Persian with English Subtitles Winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film this year was this amazing Iranian film about a husband and wife who are going through a divorce because she wants to leave Iran and take their daughter and he needs to stay in Iran to take care of his ailing father.

Another critic sees a Spielberg influence, and wonders, «what do we make of an Iranian film whose conceptual parameters are broad enough to span L'Avventura and Jaws?»

You would think that the twentieth century's longest conventional conflict would also provide the raw material for many a great Iranian film.

Few Iranian films have tried to realistically depict both the urban middle and lower classes, and fewer still with the complexity of story telling and depth of characterization in Asghar Farhadi's impressive third feature, Fireworks Wednesday.

I wrote the article for Film Comment and then I continued to see as many Iranian films as I could in festivals or wherever I could see them.

GC: It started when the editors of Film Comment asked me to go see the first festival of post-revolutionary Iranian films at the Lincoln Center in the fall of 1992.

Further fest prospects are bright for this very personal, refined work, which in many ways recalls the craftsmanship and sensitivity of the best Iranian films.

A boycott would be unlikely to cause too much damage to this year's programme on the Lido, considering that no Iranian films are up for the 2012 Golden Lion.

Known for his documentary - style Iranian films using themes from poetry, Kiarostami uses the eye of an Iranian filmmaker with the restrictions imposed by the Islamic regime in this film.

Several Iranian films have been shot primarily on the road or in moving vehicles — possibly as a way of working inconspicuously?

If you've grooved on any number of French New Wave or child's - eye Iranian films, give praise to the big daddy.

Not exact matches

«So whoever initiated this — and was very proud of themselves to see that little dip in Iran's centrifuge numbers — should look back now and acknowledge it was a major mistake,» Emad Kiyaei, executive director American Iranian Council, says in the film.

We don't know when nor where this was filmed, still the footage, reportedly shot from an Iranian Phantom's WSO (Weapons Systems Officer) seems genuine.

The film by and starring Dieudonne M'Bala M'Bala, was produced by the Iranian Documentary and Experimental Film Center.

Iranian directors made intellectual films under the decadent and «Westoxicated» shah, and the country's art - house scene flourished even as the vulgar Film Farsi melodramas also found an audience.

The Iranian state has partly funded the film, most likely in an attempt to promote a Shiite understanding of the narrative of Muhammad's life.

This has become the subject of a film by Iranian filmmaker Leila Lak.

There might be some way to depict the Iranian Revolution on film, but Septembers of Shiraz is not it.

The Iranian characters form the film's weakest link, in my view, as they do in the novel.

His Massoud Amir Behrani is an Iranian immigrant who, with wife Nadi (Shohreh Aghdashloo) and son Esmail (Jonathan Ahdout) fled the Ayatollah's for reasons carefully distributed in the film's running character development.

The writer - director, Babak Shokrian, has made an erratic autobiographical film about juggling artistic ambitions and family expectations in L.A.'s close - knit Iranian Jewish community.

The surprises begin with the fact that the Iranian master's last work is, of all things, essentially an animated film.

Unsurprisingly, Persepolis has attracted the wrath of the Iranian government, but more captivating than the film's depictions of cultural repression (a scene where Marji, out to buy a black market Iron Maiden album, is beset by weasel - bodied female Guardians of the Revolution because she wears a jean jacket and «punk» sneakers is but one well - handled example) are its more understated portraits of Iran's intellectual elite, at once removed from the proletariat it so pompously champions and sadly delusional about the real threat of the fanatic trajectory of the revolution.

Iranian director Ana Lily Amirpour «s debut feature, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, is an amalgam of stylistic influences, including — but certainly not limited to — spaghetti westerns,»50s teenage movies, atmospheric horror films, and»80s Jim Jarmusch.

Not all of the 27 films voted for selection by Asghar Farhadi, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Mania Akbari, Jafar Panahi, Mohammad Rasoulof, et al could be sourced for or included by the FIFF, but this wholly admirable project to excavate the often forgotten riches of Iranian cinema, undoubtedly a huge challenge to organise, hasn't ended in Fribourg.

The running theme of the film is the relationship between the legacy of Persian / Iranian culture — which, as seen in the quoted passages of these poets, was rife with the celebration of wine, women, and the life of the senses — with Iran in 1999.

«This Is Not a Film «When Iranian new - wave top dog Jafar Panahi was silenced by his country's government (essentially barring him from continuing his film career), it was assumed that, save some renegade attempt to escape the country, we probably wouldn't hear from the auteur for some time.

Now they're back at it, minus the campy sexual fireworks, for «Everybody Knows», a brooding, talky family saga by Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, twice winner of the foreign - film Oscar for «A Separation» and «The Salesman».

One of the more intriguing films of the fest will be the US film, «The Stoning of Soraya M», a study of an Iranian woman falsely accused of adultery which is a crime punished with death by stoning.

The president's big announcement at the start of the film is that he's made a deal with the Iranian president and is proceeding to withdraw all troops from the Middle East, a move that comes with a boatload of stunningly puerile speeches, and sparks the ire of right - wingers and big corporations invested in the business of war.

Filtering a piquantly feminist perspective on Iranian gender relations through a mesh of genre influences including low - rent horror, film noir and even spaghetti western, here's a fantasy underworld with entirely its own woozy, sinister flavour.

An adaptation of Shahrnush Parsipur's magic realist novel, the film uses poetry to lift its political statement on the suffering of Iranian women to a higher, more human level.

Iranian director Jafar Panahi claims that his latest documentary is «not a film.»

Two films — Pater, by the 79 - year - old French renaissance man Alain Cavalier, and This Is Not a Film, by banned Iranian director Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb — seemed born from the immortal dictum (usually ascribed to Orson Welles) that «the enemy of art is the absence of limitations.»

Filmmaker Ana Lily Armipour has been receiving acclaim ever since her Iranian vampire fairytale A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night premiered at Sundance last year, and she's found a pair of fitting partners to produce her next film.

Stewart decision to make a drama about the imprisonment of Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari — who fielded questions alongside him, as did the Mexican actor who plays him, Gael Garcia Bernal — was instigated when an appearance Bahari made in a filmed comedy sketch on «The Daily Show» was used against him when the Islamic regime accused him of being a traitor and American secret agent.

Iranian director Farhadi opens Cannes with a film that explores the unhealed wound at the heart of a Spanish family with pitiless efficiency and sheer muscular flair