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[indieWIRE News] IFC Films has confirmed what has been speculated for some time in announcing its acquisition of the U.S. rights to the Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi’s film “No One Knows About The Persian Cats,” which looks at Tehran’s youth and underground music scene.
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[Screen - Latest news] IFC Films picks up Ghobadi's Persian Cats for North America | News ...: The Iranian film had its North American premiere at the AFI Fest in Los Angeles last November. It will be screened in a special presentation at the upcoming SXSW Film Festival in March, and as part of a retrospective of Ghobadis films at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in April.
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[Homepage: frantikmag.com] Homepage: frantikmag.com » No One Knows About Persian Cats ...: A unique fusion of classical Persian poetry with contemporary jazz and blues, Rana sings in a cool bluesy style that transcends time and erase all borders. Born in Iran, Rana grew up listening to any albums she could get her hands on, fostering a love for American blues artists like Brownie Mc Ghee, Leadbelly, and Johnny Winter.
[Top News Web] IFC picks up U.S. rights to 'Persian Cats' (source: Variety): IFC picks up U.S. rights to 'Persian Cats' (source: Variety). February 18th, 2010 | Author: admin. Music News: Feature about Tehran's underground music scene ” IFC's acquired U.S. rights to Iranian feature “No One Knows About Persian ...
[Mahvrick Film] IFC picks up U.S. rights to 'Persian Cats' | Mahvrick Film: Web Exclusive: Feature about Tehran's underground music scene -- IFC's acquired U.S. rights to Iranian feature "No One Knows About Persian Cats."
[iran] iran -: The Mogul were removed from Iran's political scene after about 300 years by the Safavides, and Shah Ismeal was crowned in Tabriz (907 A.H). During the reign of Safavie Dynasty relations between Iran and European and other countries expanded and Iran's powerful centralized government, during Shah Abbas's rule, established political and economic ties with great leaders such as Queen Elizabeth, Philip II the king of Spain, India's Akbar shah and also put an end to the domination of Portuguese in the Persian Gulf.
[Row Three] Row Three » AFI Fest 2009: No One Knows About Persian Cats - Where ...: The two main actors, Negar and Askan, are actual Tehranian musicians whose story insired Ghobadi and he decided to make a thinly fictionalized film about them, even leaving their names the same. In the film, following a stint in jail for performing without a permit, Askan wants to leave Iran in order to pursue their music with more freedom and more ability to express their thoughts and feelings.
[IFC.com - Indie Eye] SXSW unveils its line-up, with "MacGruber," "Mr. Nice," "Kick-Ass ...: Written and directed by Jay & Mark Duplass, the iconoclastic filmmaking team behind The Puffy Chair, Cyrus takes an insightful, funny and sometimes heartbreaking look at love and family in contemporary Los Angeles.
[Jay's Movie Blog] Jay's Movie Blog: Rann: While I was walking back home from Rann, I pondered that Bollywood movies really are their own thing, to the point that even the people who only make it to a couple blockbusters a year mentally categorize movies as "American", "foreign", and "Bollywood". These folks likely haven't been exposed to enough to really have an idea of how different they are, and many probably don't consciously know that there's what amounts to an entirely separate distribution apparatus set up to get them to audiences away from the subcontinent, but just enough has seeped into the general consciousness to put these movies in a separate category.
[IFC.com - Film News] Ramin Bahrani on "Chop Shop" - Interviews - News - IFC.com: Iranian-American filmmaker Ramin Bahrani's first feature was "Man Push Cart," a poignant immigrant drama about a former Pakistani rock god who now spends his days schlepping a coffee cart through the traffic-clogged streets of midtown Manhattan. It was a solid debut, its finest quality being its uncannily beautiful lensing of an oppressively ugly section of New York City.
[FORA.tv - Program Feed] FORA.tv - | Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: Her areas of expertise include Middle Eastern women's issues, contemporary Iranian intellectual currents and politics, and democratic developments in the Middle East, and she frequently writes, lectures, and organizes symposia on these topics. In 2007 she was detained, in solitary confinement, in Iran's Evin Prison for more than 110 days, between May 8 and August 21.
[VICE Magazine Deutschland - Blog] Vice Magazine: IRAN - SHANE IS GUY MADDIN: Papa bear boss guy Shane Smith was recently in Tehran shooting a hunk of the Vice Guide to Film, a six-part series airing on IFC Canada this fall, where he embedded himself with the people from .So Shane, being a rare person from another country at this prestigious event, got up and accepted it on Guy Maddin's behalf, delivering a speech so touching and powerful (and in Persian) that it moved the mayor of Tehran to smooch him on .
[IFC.com - The Daily] Cannes 09. Lineup. - The Daily - Blogs - IFC.com: as Thierry Fremaux unveiled the lineup today, he "hinted that Cannes audiences will be in for a surprise with Bahman Ghobadi's 'Nobody Knows About The Persian Cats,' which includes a lesson in Iranian rap songs for the uninitiated." ....
[Carpetbagger] Wrestling With the Ayatollah - Carpetbagger Blog - NYTimes.com: The Carpetbagger is a seasonal blog that covers all things Oscar - the news, the nonsense, and the players that drive the campaign. The blog is most often reported and written by the Bagger, who views Hollywood as simultaneously fascinating and suspect.
[The Global Game] Cinema | Iranian women, in Panahi's film, move beyond a boundary ...: The non-professional actors who play the female protagonists in Offside”they are primarily students from Tehran University”opt for the secretive approach by wearing oversized clothes, feature-cloaking hats and, in one case, a policeman’s uniform. They are rounded up and watched by a ragtag police detail, who are dragged into debates about the ethics of preventing the women from entry but who are more interested in seeing the game themselves.
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