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Sunday, Sep 16, 2018
5 PM (70 mins)
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Salaam Cinema
Imported 35mm Print
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Introduction
Hossein Khosrowjah is a senior adjunct professor at California College of the Arts in the Visual Studies Department. His book, The Singular Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami, will be published later this year.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Azadeh Zangeneh, Maryam Keyhan, Feyzolah Ghashgai,
No one knows better than Mohsen Makhmalbaf that Iranians are movie mad, so when he placed a casting call for one hundred actors for a new film, he expected a crowd; what he got was a crush—five thousand people. After genially announcing, “You are both the subject and the actors in the film,” he begins auditions. What unfolds is a parade of individuals who, for love of cinema, are by turns brash, crafty, shy, touchingly open, unwittingly hilarious. From would-be Paul Newmans to women who are intellectual rebels under their chadors, this is very much about “casting.” Makhmalbaf plays the film director as judge, tease, and actor. A brilliant exposé of the film that is in the hearts of a people, and the people that are the heart of cinema, this is experimental filmmaking in every sense, yet what we feel most is the director’s controlling hand—precisely the paradox Makhmalbaf is exploring.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Cinematographer
- Mahmoud Kalari
Language
- Farsi
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- Color
- 35mm
- 70 mins
Source
- Makhmalbaf Film House
CINEFILES
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Salam cinema (program note), San Francisco International Film Festival, 1996
Salam cinema (review), Variety, Godfrey Cheshire, 1995
Salam cinema (program note), Cannes Film Festival, 1995
Salam cinema (review), Moving Pictures Criticisms Review, Monika Maurer, 1995
Salaam cinema (program note), Toronto International Film Festival, Dimitri Eipides, 1995
Salam cinema (program note), Nantes Festival of Three Continents, 1995
Salam cinema (program note), Cannes Film Festival, Serge Daney, 1995
Salaam cinema (program note), London Film Festival, Dimitri Eipides, 1995
Salaam cinema (program note), Vancouver International Film Festival
Salam cinema (press kit), MK2 Productions
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