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Wednesday 29 January 2014

Wolf of Wall Street movie made by Martin Scorsese is a bit, the sex scenes run a little longer

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However Joey McFarland and Riza Aziz insisted the most extreme scenes are in the movie theater version currently showing, or it would have 'sanitized' the debauchery, deceit and insanity of Belfort - who served almost two years on jail for his crimes.
McFarland and Aziz, speaking exclusively at the Directors Guild of America Awards, revealed Scorsese originally shot a four-hour version, which was edited down for its initial release.
The extra 60 minutes will be released in the DVD and Blu Ray release later this spring.
The flick - nominated for the best picture Oscar - had a record 506 F words - 231 less than in Belfort's original book.
When asked what about what percentage of expletives fans can expect in the DVD release.
Riza, who runs Red Granite Pictures with McFarland, added:'It's tough! You figure another hour so I'd figure another 25% more! I've never done an F Bomb count. I am sure there's plenty more!'
And for nude scenes, he continued: 'I think a bit, the sex scenes run a little longer but nothing extreme

Monday 27 January 2014

Kathryn Bigelow, the first woman to win the best director Oscar

The most important events in cinema world is Oscar Film Festival
To report the guardian Kathryn Bigelow, the first woman to win the best director Oscar, for The Hurt Locker in 2010. Photograph: Jason Merritt/Getty Images.There are only two things you really need to know about the Academy Awards: that Citizen Kane didn't win the Oscar for best picture, and that Driving Miss Daisy did.As we approach the 86th Academy Awards, it's worth remembering those two sobering facts, which perfectly encapsulate the inherent foolishness of gong ceremonies in general, and the Oscars in particular. Ask any film fan how seriously you should take the Academy Awards, and chances are they will point you toward the best director category, where the roll call of winners signally omits Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, Howard Hawks, Stanley Kubrick, Jane Campion, David Lynch, Spike Lee and (most famously) Alfred Hitchcock – something that seems to suggest that, over the years, Oscar voters (whose average age is about 142) haven't been the best judges of cinematic brillianceEven when they get it right, it's often for the wrong reason – or film. Having been overlooked for decades, Martin Scorsese finally earned a best director statuette at the 79th Academy Awards for The Departed – a decent film, sure enough, but hardly on a par with Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull or Goodfellas, all of which had earned him umpteen international trophies (Baftas, Cannes awards etc) while leaving him beaten to the punch at the Oscars. When he finally got up on the stage to receive his award for The Departed, Scorsese's first comment was."

Thursday 23 January 2014

Wednesday 22 January 2014

Shohreh Aghdashloo Best Actress in Broken Hearts movies directed by the Ali Hatami

Shohreh Aghdashloo was born in Tehran, Iran, on May 11, 1952. In the 1970s at age 20, she achieved nationwide stardom in her homeland of Iran, starring in some prominent pictures such as The Report (1977) (The Report) directed by the renowned Abbas Kiarostami, which won critics awards at the Moscow Film Festival. In 1978, she won wider acclaim and established herself as one of Iran's leading ladies with Desiderium (1978) (Broken Hearts) directed by the late Ali Hatami
During the 1978 Islamic revolution, Aghdashloo left Iran for England, to complete her education. Her interest in politics and her concern for social injustice in the world led her to earn a B.A.degree in International Relations
She continued to pursue her acting career, which eventually brought her to Los Angeles in 1987. She went on to marry actor/playwright Houshang Touzie, performing in a number of his plays, successfully taking them to national and international stages. However, it was not easy getting work in Hollywood as a middle eastern actress with an accent; she had roles in some decent, though not great, films, including Twenty Bucks (1993), Surviving Paradise (2000) and Maryam (2002). She had to wait quite some time to get a "Hollywood" break.And finally, years after having read the acclaimed novel "House of Sand and Fog," Dreamworks were in the process of bringing the story to the big screen. After having cast Ben Kingsley (as Massoud Amir Behrani) and Jennifer Connelly in the lead roles, they were looking for a relatively unknown Iranian actress to play Kingsley's wife, Nadi. Shohreh Aghdashloo was duly cast. She stole the limelight and earned herself an Academy award nomination as best supporting actress amongst many other prestigious awards, including the Independent spirit award as best supporting actress in a feature film, The New York and Los Angeles film critics award and others
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Niki Karimi an Iranian actoress in Iran

Niki Karimi was born and raised in Tehran, Iran. She has been active in theatre since elementary school, and has said that her early interest in film and literature inspired her to become an actress. She started her professional career when actor Jamshid Gorgin discovered her in a school play.
In 1990, she was cast as a young bride in Behrooz Afkhami's hit film The Bride. It proved to be a breakthrough role.
Following this part, she worked with many Iranian film makers such as Darush Mehrjuii, Masoud Kimiai and ...
Niki has won many awards nationally and internationally such as San Sebastian film festival award for best actress.  She has also recently been on the jury for renowned film festivals, including the Locarno International Film Festival and Thessaloniki International Film Festival and Berlin Film Festival and also the 60th Cannes Film Festival

Farhadi's movie screened in New Zealand Fastival

 
TEHRAN (ISNA)- An Iranian film by the internationally-acclaimed director Asghar Farhadi 'The Past' is screened in New Zealand International Film Festival.
The festival which opened on July 18 is hosting Farhadi's newest project on Sunday.
The French-language film was screened at the Paris Cinema Film Festival which ran on June 28-July 9.
The Past which is Farhadi’s sixth directorial experience and first one in a foreign country was shot in the French capital, Paris.
The movie also won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (prix du Jury œcuménique) at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
The movie has received warm critical acclaim by both French
movie goers during its public screening in the country’s movie theaters and those ones who followed the film in its premier at Cannes film festival.
Farhadi’s immigrant romantic drama depicts the story of an Iranian man who deserts his French wife and two children to return to his homeland. When he comes back to Paris upon his wife's request for a divorce encounters with a complicated situation of the family there.
The Argentine-French actress Bérénice Bejo who replaced former candidate Marion Cotillard along with the French actor of Algerian origin, Tahar Rahim and the acclaimed Iranian actor Ali Mosaffa star in the movie.
Farhadi’s Academy Award winning drama A Separation and his Silver Bear winning About Elly were presented at the Paris Cinema Film Festival

Woman's spirit burns in 'The Patience Stone


A walk onto the street, to get fruit and medicine, becomes a frantic run for survival for the unnamed woman played by Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani in The Patience Stone. Suddenly, there is an explosion. A truck full of militia firing automatic weapons tears around the corner, dust and damage everywhere. The woman lives in a small house behind a walled courtyard, where she has two young daughters and a husband. He is lying comatose, a bullet in his neck, a tube with serum going into his mouth. The man (Hamidrez Javdan - not exactly a fun part) - is much older. She was 17 when she married him - or married a photograph and a dagger representing his presence. He was away. And now, in this quietly fierce condemnation of fundamentalist Muslim society's treatment of women, she begins to speak truths she dared not utter when he was awake. The Patience Stone, adapted from the Atiq Rahimi novel and directed by the author - aided in no small measure by Thierry Arbogast's remarkable cinematography - finds the woman telling her husband about the men who fathered her daughters, because he was impotent. She talks of her longings, her rage. After weeks of these confessions, something stirs, breaks free. She meets a soldier (Massi Mrowat), and they make love. In Persian mythology, the patience stone is a magical talisman that absorbs the worries and woe of those who confide in it. For the woman, her husband becomes that stone. It's a process of catharsis, allowing her to move on - and allowing the audience a glimpse into a culture of religious fervor, sexual oppression, violence, fear. Although the country goes unnamed in this powerful, parable-like film, it is clearly Afghanistan, torn apart by war, a culture dominated by men, by mullahs. But what comes across more than anything - in Farahani's character, in the wisdom and wild humor displayed by her aunt (Hassina Burgan) - is the resilience of women. Beneath the hijabs and the burkas that conceal them, a spirit burns fast and strong

I can not work in TV from 4 years ago


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A report from Abbas Kai-Rostami Iranian filmmaker

A short film by Internationally-acclaimed Iranian auteur and director Abbas Kia-Rostami would be screened in Venice International Film Festival as the event is preparing to celebrate its 70th edition ISNA reports

70 Ashort films have been invited to the event which is to be attended by renewed figures such as Bernardo Bertolucci, Paul Joseph Schrader, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Shekhar Kapoor

The directors have been taking part in the festival since 20 years ago and their 60-90 second films would be displayed in the event

The festival is scheduled to be held on August 28 to September 7

As a filmmaker, painter, designer and photographer, Kiarostami has received many prestigious international awards, including the 1997 Cannes Golden Palm award and the 2008 Glory to the Filmmaker award of the Venice Film Festival

Vahid Mousaian won Golden Dhow Award from the 16th Zanzibar International Film Festival

This is an Iranian film to made by iranian director film in Iran  (ISNA)- An Iranian film dubbed 'Golchehreh' and was directed by Vahid Mousaian won Golden Dhow Award from the 16th Zanzibar International Film Festival.

The African event hosted three Iranian movies in its competition line-up, including Nadarha 'The Poor' by Mohammad Reza Arab, Yeki Mikhad Bahat Harf Bezaneh (Someone Wants to Talk to You) by Manouchehr Hadi and 'Golchehreh' by Vahid Mousaian.

Secretary of the 31st International Fajr Film festival Mohammad Reza Abbasian received the award due to Mousaian's absence.

Also several other Iranian films have been shown in Zanzibar cities and islands concurrent with the festival.Based on a true story, Golchehreh features Taliban in Afghanistan and how they tried to destroy the country's national film archive.

The film has been honored at several festivals and has won the Grand Prix award of the 2011 Batumi International Art-House Film Festival (BIAFF) in Georgia and the Red Rose Award of the 4tJaipour International Film Festival (JIFF) in India.