Archive for the ‘Film feature’
Film Feature: A Separation (Iran) – playing now at Film Forum in NY!
Venue: Film Forum (209 W Houston St, New York, NY 10014, Box Office:212-727-8110)
Date: playing now
Show times: 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:10
Note: Writer/director Asghar Farhadi will be at the 1:15pm show tomorrow, January 10th to do a Q and A at Film Forum! More information at their site!
Documentary film: Boubacar Traoré “Je chanterai pour toi (I’ll Sing For You)”
Boubacar Traoré (born 1942 in Kayes, Mali) is a renowned singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Traoré also goes by the nickname Kar Kar, (a footballing nickname in Bambara meaning “The Dribbler” given him by his friends). In 1968, when Moussa Traoré overthrew Malian president Modibo Keita, Boubacar Traoré, widely seen as an artist associated with the previous regime, disappeared from the airwaves. During the 1970s Traoré’s popularity faded, until a surprise television appearance in 1987. Soon after this “rediscovery,” Boubacar’s wife died during childbirth. Grief-stricken, he moved to France and did construction work to support his six children. While there, a British record producer discovered a tape of one of Traoré’s radio performances, and he was finally signed to a record deal. His first album, Mariama, was released in 1990. Since then, Traoré has enjoyed international popularity, touring Europe, Africa, and North America. Boubacar figures in the book Mali Blues (Lonely Planet, Australia), by Belgian writer Lieve Joris. The book inspired Swiss film director Jacques Sarasin for the 2001 film Je chanterai pour toi (“I’ll Sing For You”) about Boubacar, released on DVD in 2005.
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Short film documentary – David S. Ware: A World of Sound
Directed by Amine Kouider and produced by David Lynch Foundation Television (DLF.TV). It is fully featured on their homepage: http://dlf.tv/ and the direct link is: http://dlf.tv/2011/david-s-
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Documentary film about Omar Khayyam: “Intoxicating Rhymes & Sobering Wine”
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About the film and Khayyam
This educational documentary, which is directed by the Iranian film maker and photographer Majeed Beenteha,
is about the life and times of Omar Khayyam, the famed 11th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer. It reexamines Khayyam’s life, work and poetry, and attempts to identify the reasons behind our intellectual preoccupation with his poetry and message.
Egypt’s women’s voices of now and yesterday: in film & music!
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While the world tunes in to the revolution in Egypt, Women’s Voices Now highlights Egyptian filmmakers to remind us all of the peace and beauty that is possible.
Girls Talk by Mayye Zayed (fiction, 5 min)
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“Women Are Heroes”: documentary film by JR (France)
Women Are Heroes is the first movie of the French young photographer JR who lives in Paris and has become a hero to many people around the world. He doesn’t use his real name, because most of the work he does is illegal. It has its premier showing today in Paris.
This documentary film takes place around the world and particularly in Brazil, India, Kenya and Cambodia. It begins in the favelas of Brazil, where we recognize the huge posters of JR and the reactions they provoke in women. Then in India, where we discover women caught between traditional customs and modern day. Then Kenya, where, again, women must live in a more chaotic and unstable that. Finally, in Cambodia, we will face the violence of the ultra violent expropriation against households headed by a matriarchal system that attempts to resist the face of real estate giants … Each woman in the film amazes us with her courage and faith. It took three years for JR to make this movie. More in JR’s website.
JR audio interview with the photographer by Jim Casper.
Film documentary: “Freaks In Love”: A Quarter Century in Underground Rock with Alice Donut!!!
Text by Martin Bisi (producer of Alice Donut’s Pure Acid Park)
Martin Bisi intrviewed in Brooklyn (photo by Shirle Hale)
Alice Donut is a band that always brings together people who enjoyed a common, punk do-it-yourself outsider ethic – with a big emphasis on “freak” and “weird” psychology – people who enjoy a humorous take on an anti-corporate and anti-mainstream attitude, almost turning the tables – that the really funny freaks are corporate and mainstream. Alice Donut shows always seem like a celebration of this shared secret knowledge. And of course Alice Donut (notice the phonetic wordplay on L-S-D ) is a hard driving band – hard driving groves. Some of the best energy in Indie rock history.
Short movie: “Feminin, Masculin” directed by Sadaf Foroughi (Iran).
Sima Bina is a great Iranian singer who can’t sing in her own country because of being a woman!
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Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi