The subject was a leper colony in northwestern Iran. Nosrat Partovi, What’s more, in the character of his loyal schoolmate Akbar, Ghassem is neglecting something far more immediate and worthwhile than faraway football fixtures: true friendship. | Manouchehr Anvar, 110 min Never a miserable social-realist film, Mehrjui’s strange picaresque tale uses Buñuelian touches and tonal shifts in its capture of the capitalist cycle of societal vampirism. He has escaped the military service several times. His sister Aghdas is pregnant and her husband is away in Kuwait, so they ... See full summary », Director: Available to watch (unrestored version) on Youtube w/ English subs: Available to watch on Youtube w/ English subs: The idea of the tough guy, who has to prove himself and his masculine honour through physical action, is a long-existing archetype in Iranian culture. Masud Zandbegleh, | The subject was a leper colony in northwestern Iran. Golestan all but gave up filmmaking after the Revolution, but he left us a unique masterpiece of paranoia, fear, responsibility and human existence. Naser Malek Motiee, Love, which had been an integral theme in Iranian cinema before the revolution (a clear influence of Persian poetry), could no longer be depicted in movies after … Stars: | Gently the camera glides over the daily lives of the colony’s residents without any sense of taboos being broken, with neither voyeurism nor sentimentality but in harmonious union with the people onscreen, while on the soundtrack her voice reads verses which poetically interrogate the divine. The Ballad of Tara is a magic realist allegory centred on a young widow, Tara, who finds an ancient sword in her dead grandfather’s belongings. Mary Apick, It came about as the culmination of decades of popular discontent mixed with economic turmoil and an increasingly repressive regime. Parviz Kimiavi The Cinema Rex, located in Abadan, Iran, was set ablaze on 19 August 1978, killing at least 420 people. Jalal Pishvaian, 105 min Or are the railway company covering up their tracks to spare themselves charges of gross negligence? | Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness", of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude. It was upon seeing a film by Sohrab Shahid Saless (A Simple Event) that a young Abbas Kiarostami felt an artistic epiphany. Persepolis was the ritual center of the ancient kingdom of Achaemenids and "the figures at Persepolis remain bound by the rules of grammar and syntax of visual language." Parviz Kimiavi He falls in love with a hardworking underprivileged young woman that nurses her very... See full summary », Director: The idea of the tough guy, who has to prove himself and his masculine honour through physical action, is a long-existing archetype in Iranian culture. Ali, the young man at the centre of the film, soon finds out that there is no hope of his father getting any help without money, and to get money he has to descend into a vicious cycle of survival and exploitation. Stars: “Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.” ↵ Sadia Rafique and Khalid Manzoor Butt, “Position of Women in Iran: An Analysis of Pre and Post Islamic Revolution 1979,” South Asian Studies 32 (2017): 431-439. In movies, the myth of the Iranian tough guy found its apogee in Masud Kimiai’s cult revenge classic, Gheisar, a film which revolutionised commercial genre cinema in Iran. Fakhri Khorvash, Hanging out in a pool hall, Ali Khoshdast becomes involved in a brawl with three brothers, and accidently kills one of them. Star: For as Tara will soon find out, it is a sword that belonged to an ancient Persian warrior whose ghost returns to the present and insists on remaining near his trusty weapon. But here Beyzai renders the spirit of Iran as something that surivives beyond any of the oppressive but temporary regimes Iran has faced. Fahimeh Rastkar, Manoucher Ahmadi, Goli Bozorgmehr, Mostafa Tari, 101 min Recently have been released from jail, Ebi makes a bet with his Friend that he goes and drinks in seven bars without even paying any money. Ali Nassirian, But they had not reckoned for the lengths Gheisar would go to for retribution. Why don’t more people know about it? Parviz Fanizadeh, Drama. Questions. Reza Karam Rezai, It was a top headline for quite some time because its consequences were so profound The pro-Western Shah was overthrown and replaced with the rabidly anti-Western Ayatollah Khomeini. | Mehdi Javadi, Habib Safaryan, 114 min And not only this, his directorial vision demonstrated incredible aesthetic precision: the camera remains static throughout, the compositions are exquisitely geometric, and the takes are ritualistically long, like a still life painting come alive. Stars: Daring to do what others only dream of, he digs up his trusty old rifle to wreak bloody revenge on figures who are obvious stand-ins for the wider social injustices of the Shah’s contemporary Iran, despite the film being set in the nominal past of the 1930s. The first lady of a noble house has died and now there is conflict between the remainders for taking over her inheritance. As always Kiarostami draws exquisitely natural performances from his young actors, and his gaze is compassionately with Ghassem — indeed the way Ghassem ‘directs’ the other children during the photo-shoot sequence suggests there is plenty of Kiarostami himself in the boy — but Kiarostami does not simplistically load all the narrative stakes in Ghassem’s favour. How were Iranian women, One telling scene, in which his wiser uncle attempts to appease him from his reckless course, clearly shows the older man reading Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh, the great national epic of Iran in which the original tough-guy warriors implement their strength with more personal discipline than the doomed Gheisar. Ali Nassirian, It asks the questions: what has changed for women in cinema after the revolution? Dariush Iran Nezhad, of an elderly railway switchman in rural Iran, as he slowly comes to terms with losing his job to a younger man, and being discarded unceremoniously after decades of service. … | Dariush Mehrjui | She related so naturally to these neglected, cast-off human beings because she herself felt so deeply what it was like to be a pariah, socially stigmatised as a ‘promiscuous’ woman — her poetry is haunted by her marks of shame and her guilt at being forced to leave behind her son when divorcing his father. Fereydun Gole Amin Tarokh, See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. Stars: His older brother has been murdered. Iranian Most Valuable Movies Part 1: Pre-revolution era (1958 - 1978) Menu. Minoo Abrishami, Drama. past the censors. Even then, the owner of the theater was arrested … IRAN HAS A long history of cinema The first Iranian documentary was filmed in 1900, the first public theater opened in 1904, and the first feature film was released in 1930. With the look of an adventure epic, the righteous anger of a brutal vendetta story recalling the first episode of Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin and a messianic folk hero akin to Nabil Maleh’s The Leopard, Tangsir is an incendiary movie that burns bright on the horizon of anti-Shah cinema. Fereydun Gole Nor does the failing of the adults around him entirely excuse him. Ali Nassirian, Director: Tell us what you think about this feature. Perhaps 1970s Iranian cinema stands as testament to the hubristic delusion of the Shah that everything was fine in his nation, when in fact all signs were pointing otherwise. Ezzatolah Entezami, | She had already published three volumes by the time the producer and filmmaker Ebrahim Golestan. | Hedayatollah Navid, Abbas Kiarostami Stars: Jamshid Mashayekhi, 99 min Available to watch on Youtube w/ English subs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XeM2wKkz1w. Reza Karam Rezai, | Stars: Director: A widow... See full summary », Director: Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. However since they have no money, Ali ... See full summary », Director: Available to watch on Youtube w/ French subs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HerTtAY2ThM. Hibibollah Safarian, An impotent,nervous,unbalanced postman, having a beautiful wife, lives in his master s house. Useless as it is to her, she trades it with another fellow villager — but he brings it back the next day, terrified of this mystical sword with hidden powers. Pre-revolutionary Iranian cinema (Persian: سینمای قبل از انقلاب ایران‎) contains films and cinematic events made in Iran before Iranian revolution era. Hooshang Kavoosi, an Iranian film critic first used term Filmfarsi to point to Iranian popular films before revolution Vossoughi this time plays a native of a small region in Southwest Iran, a simple but proud man who’s been hoodwinked out of his life savings by an unscrupulous band of influential local men: a mullah, a lawyer, a governor and a prominent merchant. Zackaria Hashemi, Not Rated Shohreh Aghdashloo, Director: Drama, Romance, Desiderium lyrically charts the hapless loves of three brothers: Majid, the young handicapped brother with a deformed head who falls in love with Aghdas, a prostitute hired by his eldest ... See full summary », Director: The picture of the missing girl is very familiar to him and he ... See full summary », Director: Faramarz Gharibian, Iranian cinema was anything but limited to poetry and humanism, although both elements existed in some of the pre-revolutionary arthouse films. A grade-school-age boy, neglected by his parents, lies, cheats, and steals to accumulate enough money to afford a bus ride to a large city and a ticket to see his favorite soccer team play. | Adapted from a story in 1001 Nights and set in a popular theatre troupe, the story follows the death of an actor in a farcical accident and the brilliantly elaborate gags and misunderstandings that abound in subsequent attempts to dispose of his body. Despite this late start, the Iranian feature film indus-try caught up and in the 1960s and 1970s, during the reign of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, produced a wide vari- Drama, History, Mystery, When Mr. Esalat is looking for a topic for his TV show, he notices an advertisement in the newspaper about a missing girl. Recently restored by the Cineteca di Bologna, Brick and Mirror is a revelation in high definition, which makes it feel like seeing a new film: the neon lights of the big city blinking through the pitch black darkness, the atmosphere of the night-time bars, the sudden bursts of fragmented editing, the tracking shots through the orphanage, and even the tonal shifts can all be more fully appreciated.
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