High Treason Samantha Leroy, in charge of "la programmation et d’exploitation" at the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé in Paris asked me to curate a season on architecture and silent cinem...
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During its golden age, Columbia Pictures produced some of American cinema’s most iconic films across a panoply of varied styles and popular genres. In 1924, the relatively small-scale motio...
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A dazed boy is standing on the beach, hollering at the ships leaving the Persian Gulf for other worlds. The vessels of escape, carrying oil tanks and dreams, are fading ghosts on a pale horizo...
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The biblical title ("When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, they raised a great shout and the wall fell down." Joshua 6:20) has actually very little to do with the story of this drab...
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This one of the crowning jewels of American cinema, nearly as good as the best of Roberto Rossellini with Ingrid Bergman, is strangely one of the least known masterpieces of the 1950s. Imag...
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Anatole Litvak with Deborah Kerr JOURNEY INTO NIGHT: THE WORLD OF ANATOLE LITVAK An unjustly overlooked master with an international career spanning six decades, Anatole Litvak made some of...
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La Notte Brava Dir: Mauro Bolognini, 1959, 95 min Playing at Close-Up Cinema on December 30, 2023 Before embarking on a career as a director, Pier Paolo Pasolini wrote the script for LA ...
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STILL LIFE TABI'AT-E BIJAN (Still Life). 1974. Iran. Written and directed by Sohrab Shahid Saless. With Zadour Bonyadi, Mohammed Kani, Hedayatollah Navid. 93 min. An elderly railway signalm...
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SHAB-E GHOUZI (Night of the Hunchback). 1964. Iran. Directed by Farrokh Ghaffari. Screenplay by Ghaffari, Jalal Moghadam. With Ghaffari, Pari Saberi, Paria Hakemi, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz. In...
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THE CYCLE (Dariush Mehrjui, 1974-76) Dariush Mehrjui and his wife were brutally murdered on October 14, 2023. MoMA screens this film on November 1. This harrowing tale of poverty and drug ...
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THE COW (Dariush Mehrjui, 1969) Dariush Mehrjui and his wife were brutally murdered on October 14, 2023. MoMA screens this film on October 26. This milestone of the Iranian New Wave portra...
Perhaps Berlin’s main achievement was to reveal the progress of the young Iranian director Sohrab Shahid Sales, with A SIMPLE EVENT (reviewed from last year’s Tehran Festival) in the Foru...
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Playing at Close-Up Cinema in London on September 24, 2023. – EK Voted by Swedish film critics as one of the "25 greatest Swedish films ever", Stellan Olsson's tender drama is based on a...
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Tranquility in the Presence of Others Nasser Taghvai, 1969, 84 min, Persian with English subtitles Often seen as one of the indispensable films of the Iranian New Wave, TRANQUILITY IN THE...
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The 37th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato concluded last week but its memories live on. In SILK STOCKINGS (Rouben Mamoulian, 1957), a quintet of melancholic expats freshly returned from a s...
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"Two years in the making, it is a vast, symbolist drama, set in some remote historical period (hazy even to Iranians), and bursting at the seams with action and bloodcurdling confrontations. W...
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Il Cinema Ritrovato XXXVII – (Almost) All the Titles | - | FR 1903 Planche à rainures | - | FR 1903 Descente dans la batterie | - | FR 1903 Une Scène à l'octroi | Velle, Gaston | FR...
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ROUBEN MAMOULIAN, LOST AND FOUND Free admission screening of the film at Il Cinema Ritrovato, on June 23, 14.30, Sala Scorsese. When it comes to filmed interviews, Mamoulian is one of the we...
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The Ballad of Tara Bahram Beyzaie's seamless blend of myth, symbolism, folklore and classical Persian literature in THE BALLAD OF TARA is unparalleled in its complexity. Yet, apart from D...
SILK STOCKINGS | publicity still Rouben Mamoulian: A Touch of Desire (1926-1957) Retrospective at Il Cinema Ritrovato, June 24-July 2, 2023 Known for his ability to encode his vision in ...
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Playing in Berlin (Sinema Transtopia ) on May 11, 2023. In 1961, the Iranian-Armenian Samuel Khachikian, a figure of enormous talent known for his strong female characters and the use of cr...
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25 FIREMAN'S STREET István Szabó, 1973 | 98 mins UK premiere of the new restoration at Close-Up Cinema (London) on May 28, 2023 István Szabó's agile camera is an uninvited guest peeki...
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