Wednesday, August 20, 2008 
Persepolis may be the most highly anticipated film in the Iranian community since 300 (and we all know how well that went). The critically acclaimed animated feature, based on the autobiographical comics by Marjane Satrapi, will probably not incite protest when it opens in Los Angeles and New York on Christmas Day this year, though.
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The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is hosting an Iranian film festival. Here are the deets:
The Fourteenth Annual Boston Festival of Films from Iran (click for the schedule)
Nov 9-24, 2007
Lots of great films on the schedule: The photo above is from 10 + 4, a documentary by actress/painter/filmmaker Mania Akbari, about her battle with […]
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The 2007 CinemaEast film festival, which features quite a few contemporary Iranian movies, is happening right now in New York City at my favorite theater, the IFC Center. The festival ends November 15, so catch what you can this week.
I highly recommend “Tehran Has No More Pomegranates” (Tehran Anar Nadarad), by Massoud Bakhshi; it’s a […]
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Maryam Kashani is an Iranian-Japanese-American filmmaker whose first documentary feature, Best in the West was released in 2006 and has been screening at festivals. The film tells the story of Kashani’s father and his Iranian friends who all ended up in San Francisco during the 1960s and 1970s, tying their narrative to the turbulent time […]
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Iranian-Canadian actress Saba Homayoon and Neil Hopkins star in this clever “homage” to French New Wave cinema. If you’ve ever had to sit through Godard without the benefit of a film studies degree and thus had no idea what was going on or why it was a big deal, you’ll totally love this.
And watch it […]
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Don’t you hate it when film reviewers employ stale cliches about films, like,”You’ll laugh; you’ll cry…”? I do, too. Yet here I am, only having watched the trailer and “Making of Persepolis” (available on the film’s beautiful website), and I know for a fact that when I finally see Persepolis on November 10th, […]
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The New Yorker has a piece on Shirin Neshat this week, and there’s a slide show on their website: check it out. The image above is from Neshat’s film “Zarin,” which is based on Shahrnush Parsipur’s excellent feminist novel, Women Without Men.
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