Bookmark This!Close Bookmark and Share This Page Save to Browser Favorites / BookmarksAskbackflipblinklistBlogBookmarkBloglinesBlogMarksBlogsvineBuddyMarksBUMPzee!CiteULikeConnoteadel.icio.usDiggdiigoDotNetKicksDropJackdzoneFacebookFarkFavesFriendsitefolkd.comFurlGoogleJamespotJeqqKaboodlekirtsylinkaGoGoLinkedInMa.gnoliaMister WongMixxMySpaceNetvouzNewsvineoneviewOnlyWirePlugIMPropellerRedditSegnaloShoutwireSimpySlashdotSurphaceSphinnSpurlSquidooStumbleUponTechnoratiThisNextTwitterWebrideWindows LiveYahoo!Email This to a Friend Link HTML: Permalink: If you like this then please subscribe to the RSS Feed or Email Feed.Powered by Bookmarkify™ More »High Speed / Low Speed Source: Jadid Online May 2010 Caring about clothes and style is the last thing that comes [...]
Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami has crafted a film with a surprisingly romcom feel, while his compatriot Jafar Panahi languishes without charge in a Tehran jail By Liam Lacey Source: The Globe and Mail May 18, 2010 One Iranian film is in the Cannes competition and one Iranian director is missing. The film is Abbas Kiarostami’s [...]
Source: Festival De Cannes May 18, 2010 Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, and Abbas Kiarostami, the director of Certified Copy (Copie conforme), his new feature film presented this Tuesday in Competition, answered journalists’ questions at noon today. This press conference was marked by the announcement that director Jafar Panahi, still detained in an Iranian prison, has [...]
By Fabian Burkhardt Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) May 12, 2010 The 63rd annual Cannes Film Festival has opened with 19 entries from 15 countries in the main competition lineup. Over the course of the 12-day event — the world’s best-known film festival — the films will compete for the prestigious Palme d’Or award. [...]
By Pat Dowell Source: NPR April 23, 2010 The new film No One Knows About Persian Cats tells the story of subversive musicians in Iran, where certain styles of music — including heavy metal, rock and hip-hop — are illegal to record, produce and consume. The film won two prizes at last year’s Cannes International [...]
Exiled Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi tells FP how he fell in love with cinema — and why Iran needs its film industry now more than ever. Interview by Kayvan Farzaneh Source: Foreign Affairs Magazine April 20, 2010 Earlier this week, a prominent Iranian filmmaker, Mohammad Nourizad, was sentenced to three and a half years in [...]
The headaches of a dictator with 63% power * * Below: (in Persian with full English translation by Planet Iran staff) Video of Ahmadinejad flanked by members of the revolutionary guards, speaking at the Military Day exhibition, on Sunday, April 18th. He said: “To the grace of God, the armed forces that consists of these [...]
Source: Reporters and Human Rights Activists of Iran (RAHANA) April 14, 2010 This is the first time that an exhibition with feminism as its subject is being held in Tabriz. What makes the exhibition even more important is its location and timing; this is when taking into consideration that the exhibition crosses the restrictive barriers [...]
By Martin Johnson Source: The Wall Street Journal April 15, 2010 Bahman Ghobadi is one of Iran’s leading filmmakers, but after completing his most recent movie, “No One Knows About Persian Cats,” he went into exile in Iraq. The movie, which opens on Friday, was shot without permission from Iranian authorities in 17 days, and [...]
Rafi Pitts’ New Film “The Hunter” By Ina Rottscheidt Source: Qantara.de April 14, 2010 Shekarchi” (“The Hunter”), the new film by the Iranian director Rafi Pitts, seems like a response to the protest movement in Iran and its repression by the government. So it’s a small miracle that the film got past the censors. As [...]
