Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg48e9LWWwA&noredirect=1
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
The USIA Films
THE BIG PICTURE: ASSIGNMENT IRAN
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg48e9LWWwA&noredirect=1
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg48e9LWWwA&noredirect=1
Monday, October 7, 2013
Iranian New Wave 2
BONBAST [DEAD END (Parviz Sayad, 1979)
A young woman lives with her mother at the end of a dead end alley. One day the girl sees from her window a man who is standing in the rain with his umbrella staring at her window. As this scenario repeats, she gets used to seeing him there. She starts talking to him and becomes interested in him. One day, the woman's brother who is often out traveling returns and moments later the man enters and declares that he is an agent of law who is there to detain the brother.
link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_haRzV6iLs&noredirect=1
GHARIBEH VA MEH [STRANGER AND THE FOG] (Bahram Beizai, 1974, 140 min.)
In a remote village by Caspian sea the villagers see a boat coming to the shore. They help to get an injured man out of the boat. Ayat, the injured man, does not know what has gone to him. Raana, a woman whose husband was drowned without the sea returning his body, is curiously following Ayat's case. This causes the enmity of the family of Raana's missing husband. The village asks Ayat to marry one of their girls. When Ayat chooses Raana, a rift breaks into the village. During the wedding ceremony, a wolf attacks the village and two unidentified man close the path to Ayat and ask him to go with them. Ayat refuses. Ayat gets into fight with them and after killing one he realizes he was Raana's missing husband.
One day a man in a black attire comes to the village emerging from the foggy sea on a boat and after buying some grocery returns to the boat and disappears in the fog. Ayat seems scared. The day after a few strangers on five boats come to the village and get into fight with Ayat. The villagers this time come to his help and overtake five men. Injured Ayat sits on the boat and goes to see what is happening on the other side of the sea. Raana wears black clothes again.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LEChC16SwE&noredirect=1
MARG-E YAZDGERD [DEATH OF YAZDGERD] ( Bahram Beizai, 1982, 110 min.)
Moubad, the leader of the Third Yazdgerd's army (the Persian King who lost his throne to the army of Arab Moslems) comes to a mill near Marv in order to issue justice about a miller, his wife, and his daughter accused for killing the king. The narratives of the accused family contradict. One says he has killed the king for raping his wife. The other says the dead body in the middle of the mill in King's clothes is actually the mill himself who was killed by the King in order for everyone to think King is dead. Outside of the mill, The army is running away from Arab Moslems. Mill's wife says that the justice is not finished yet as the real judges arrive with black flags, the Moslems.
link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tuwZdIfM58&noredirect=1 (subtitled)
CHERIKE-E TARA [BALLAD OF TARA] (Bahram Beizai, 1979, 110 min.)
A widow named Tara returns to her shed from the country with her two young children. On the way she is informed that her grandfather has died. She sees a strange man in historical attire on the wooded road and passes his quickly. Tara finds a sword among her grandfather's items left for her. She does not know what to do with it. She tries to use the sword instead of sickle to reap the harvest but the sword is not handy for such uses. Tara throws the sword into the river. Tara meets the knight again. He is part of a destroyed army. In fact, the sword left for Tara is the only remaining object from that history. Tara finds the sword by the shore and gives it to the historical man but he, who has fallen in love with Tara cannot come back to his own world. Meanwhile, Tara's sister in law, Esna, proposes Tara for her brother Ashoob. Tara rejects the offer. Tara asks the historical man to go away from the road and stop appearing on her way. Ashoob steals Tara's children and Tara accuses Ashoob for the murder of her brother in order to get to her. Ashoob leaves the village. Tara goes after the historical man and accuses him that all his story is bunch of lies that there is no army and no past to begin with. At this time a huge army reaches to the shore from the sea to testify and the historical man escapes to the jungle out of shame. Tara promises the man that she will leave her children with Ghalich and will go with him. The historical man hits the water with his wounded horse and Tara attacks the waves with her sword in order to take back the knight but waves push Tara back.
A young woman lives with her mother at the end of a dead end alley. One day the girl sees from her window a man who is standing in the rain with his umbrella staring at her window. As this scenario repeats, she gets used to seeing him there. She starts talking to him and becomes interested in him. One day, the woman's brother who is often out traveling returns and moments later the man enters and declares that he is an agent of law who is there to detain the brother.
link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_haRzV6iLs&noredirect=1
GHARIBEH VA MEH [STRANGER AND THE FOG] (Bahram Beizai, 1974, 140 min.)
In a remote village by Caspian sea the villagers see a boat coming to the shore. They help to get an injured man out of the boat. Ayat, the injured man, does not know what has gone to him. Raana, a woman whose husband was drowned without the sea returning his body, is curiously following Ayat's case. This causes the enmity of the family of Raana's missing husband. The village asks Ayat to marry one of their girls. When Ayat chooses Raana, a rift breaks into the village. During the wedding ceremony, a wolf attacks the village and two unidentified man close the path to Ayat and ask him to go with them. Ayat refuses. Ayat gets into fight with them and after killing one he realizes he was Raana's missing husband.
One day a man in a black attire comes to the village emerging from the foggy sea on a boat and after buying some grocery returns to the boat and disappears in the fog. Ayat seems scared. The day after a few strangers on five boats come to the village and get into fight with Ayat. The villagers this time come to his help and overtake five men. Injured Ayat sits on the boat and goes to see what is happening on the other side of the sea. Raana wears black clothes again.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LEChC16SwE&noredirect=1
MARG-E YAZDGERD [DEATH OF YAZDGERD] ( Bahram Beizai, 1982, 110 min.)
Moubad, the leader of the Third Yazdgerd's army (the Persian King who lost his throne to the army of Arab Moslems) comes to a mill near Marv in order to issue justice about a miller, his wife, and his daughter accused for killing the king. The narratives of the accused family contradict. One says he has killed the king for raping his wife. The other says the dead body in the middle of the mill in King's clothes is actually the mill himself who was killed by the King in order for everyone to think King is dead. Outside of the mill, The army is running away from Arab Moslems. Mill's wife says that the justice is not finished yet as the real judges arrive with black flags, the Moslems.
link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tuwZdIfM58&noredirect=1 (subtitled)
CHERIKE-E TARA [BALLAD OF TARA] (Bahram Beizai, 1979, 110 min.)
A widow named Tara returns to her shed from the country with her two young children. On the way she is informed that her grandfather has died. She sees a strange man in historical attire on the wooded road and passes his quickly. Tara finds a sword among her grandfather's items left for her. She does not know what to do with it. She tries to use the sword instead of sickle to reap the harvest but the sword is not handy for such uses. Tara throws the sword into the river. Tara meets the knight again. He is part of a destroyed army. In fact, the sword left for Tara is the only remaining object from that history. Tara finds the sword by the shore and gives it to the historical man but he, who has fallen in love with Tara cannot come back to his own world. Meanwhile, Tara's sister in law, Esna, proposes Tara for her brother Ashoob. Tara rejects the offer. Tara asks the historical man to go away from the road and stop appearing on her way. Ashoob steals Tara's children and Tara accuses Ashoob for the murder of her brother in order to get to her. Ashoob leaves the village. Tara goes after the historical man and accuses him that all his story is bunch of lies that there is no army and no past to begin with. At this time a huge army reaches to the shore from the sea to testify and the historical man escapes to the jungle out of shame. Tara promises the man that she will leave her children with Ghalich and will go with him. The historical man hits the water with his wounded horse and Tara attacks the waves with her sword in order to take back the knight but waves push Tara back.
Friday, October 4, 2013
Iranian New Wave
Bahram Beizai's films:
RAGBAR [THE DOUNPUR] (1972, 120 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVtf451rYsw&noredirect=1 (subtitled)
Mr. Hekmati, the new teacher in a school in the south of capital, the poor neighborhood, ends up expelling one of his students, Mosayyeb, in the first day of class. Atiyeh, Mosayyeb's sister, goes to the teacher to protest this issue. Hekmati shows interest toward her. Mr. Rahim, the butcher of the neighborhood, also has shown interest to Atiyeh. Meanwhile, the superintendent of the school and his wife would life Hekmati to marry their daughter. But Hekmati shows no interest to their daughter. Hekmati decides to repair school's theatre on his own. Several times the butcher threatens him in hope of scaring him away to leave Atiyeh. But the relationship between Hekmati and Atiyeh deepens. The theatre is finally opens up and Hekmati receives his notice of transfer. Despite his will, he has to leave the school and the neighborhood.
KALAGH [THE RAVEN] (1977, 120 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34VNwCuqc4I&noredirect=1
In search for a subject matter for a TV program, Esalat (literary means originality) notices a newspaper ad about a missing young woman with a return address for contact. The picture of woman seems familiar to Esalat. He tries to remember where he has seen her. In the evening, while visiting a group of his coworkers, he brings up the story of missing woman with them as a joke. Asieh is a teacher of deaf students and she is writing a memoir about her mother in law at home these days, who came from an important family. Esalat checks out the address given in the newspaper ad and realizes that the address is related to 30 years ago. Asieh also shows interest to the story of missing girl. Esalat's coworkers succeed in dragging Esalat for preparing a report about air pollution through a use of fake phone call. Mother in law in remembering her memory take Asieh to remote time in the past, to visiting people and places that no longer exist. The mother had lost her fiance when she was young and resorted to a short marriage without love and adopted Esalat during the WWII when she found him in hospital. Moments later, upon hearing the fake news of finding the missing girl, the mother physically starts deteriorating. Asieh who feels there is a mysterious link among the events which is surrounding her starts looking for clues. In mother's room, she finds a picture of missing girl and discovers that the missing girl belongs to the youth of her mother in law.
RAGBAR [THE DOUNPUR] (1972, 120 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVtf451rYsw&noredirect=1 (subtitled)
Mr. Hekmati, the new teacher in a school in the south of capital, the poor neighborhood, ends up expelling one of his students, Mosayyeb, in the first day of class. Atiyeh, Mosayyeb's sister, goes to the teacher to protest this issue. Hekmati shows interest toward her. Mr. Rahim, the butcher of the neighborhood, also has shown interest to Atiyeh. Meanwhile, the superintendent of the school and his wife would life Hekmati to marry their daughter. But Hekmati shows no interest to their daughter. Hekmati decides to repair school's theatre on his own. Several times the butcher threatens him in hope of scaring him away to leave Atiyeh. But the relationship between Hekmati and Atiyeh deepens. The theatre is finally opens up and Hekmati receives his notice of transfer. Despite his will, he has to leave the school and the neighborhood.
KALAGH [THE RAVEN] (1977, 120 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34VNwCuqc4I&noredirect=1
In search for a subject matter for a TV program, Esalat (literary means originality) notices a newspaper ad about a missing young woman with a return address for contact. The picture of woman seems familiar to Esalat. He tries to remember where he has seen her. In the evening, while visiting a group of his coworkers, he brings up the story of missing woman with them as a joke. Asieh is a teacher of deaf students and she is writing a memoir about her mother in law at home these days, who came from an important family. Esalat checks out the address given in the newspaper ad and realizes that the address is related to 30 years ago. Asieh also shows interest to the story of missing girl. Esalat's coworkers succeed in dragging Esalat for preparing a report about air pollution through a use of fake phone call. Mother in law in remembering her memory take Asieh to remote time in the past, to visiting people and places that no longer exist. The mother had lost her fiance when she was young and resorted to a short marriage without love and adopted Esalat during the WWII when she found him in hospital. Moments later, upon hearing the fake news of finding the missing girl, the mother physically starts deteriorating. Asieh who feels there is a mysterious link among the events which is surrounding her starts looking for clues. In mother's room, she finds a picture of missing girl and discovers that the missing girl belongs to the youth of her mother in law.
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Filmfarsi 5
SHOHAR-E AHU KHANOM [AHU'S HUSBAND] (Davud Mowllapur, 1968, 90 min)
A married man with wife and child falls in love with another woman, Homa. He is suffering within struggling between a sense of family responsibility and his feelings toward Homa. He gives in but Homa suddenly leaves him. He is left at the end with Ahoo Khanum, his wife, and a memory of Homa.
KOLAH MAKHMALI [VELVET HAT WEARER] (Kushan, 1962, 90 min)
A tough guy, with velvet hat, is released from jail and he pledges not to return to prviosu lifestyle and pursue a reputable manner. But, his previous buddies set him up with drugs in order to get rid of him. Kolah Makhmali escapes to a remote village. He is taken for a young village man over there due to similar features. The village guy ends up getting arrested instead and put in jail. Meanwhile, Kolah Makhmali falls in love with village's head. He ends up facilitating the arrest of a group of wrong doers who were planning to steal from the headman and ends up acquitting himself and marrying headman's daughter. The young village guy who looked like him is also released from jail and marries his favorite girl.
DELHOREH [PANIC] (Samuel Khachikian, 1962, 100 min)
Behrooz, husband of Roshanak Niknejad, is a writer of crime novels and also runs the factory owned by Roshanak's uncle who died in an accident. A man name Babak who reaches Roshanak as a journalist and threatens her subsequently with having in his possession Roshanak's love letters. He asks for 50,000 tomans for five letters and sleeping with her in exchange of the sixth one. Roshanak gives Babak the money but before he succeeds in sleeping with her she shoots him dead. Roshanak returns home and starts seeing Babak in various places there. Meanwhile Jamshid, a policeman, who used to love Roshanak and is now investigating mysterious death of Roshanak's uncle also enters into the story. Jamshid who suspects Roshanak might have killed her uncle finds out that Behrooz is behind the whole plot as he has been trying to get rid of both Roshanak and her uncle in order to possess their wealth. Jamshid fights with Behrooz and wins over him and arrests his co-conspirators.
link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH9g-hhXzew
GILDA (Charles Vidor, 1946, 105 min)
link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JASOknn1BKM
SEH DIVANEH [THREE MADMEN] (Jalal Moqaddam, 1968, 110 min)
A trio, a hairdresser, a nurse, and a cook, work in a sanitarium. They notice that a man in collusion with his partner, Teymur, is planning to bring his niece, Pervaneh, to the sanitarium so he can takes over her wealth before she reaches the legal age. The trio watch over Parvaneh and prevent Teymur to suffocate her in the bathtub. When Teymur decides to take Parvaneh out of sanitarium for the excuse of sending her to Austria, the trio run away with Parvaneh and go hiding. They go to Parvaneh's uncle's house and Mansour (?) cunningly (?) proves to Parvaneh that the plot to kill her was run by her uncle. They return to sanitarium and Parvaneh starts working there as a nurse.
ARAMESH DAR HOZOOR-E DIGARAN [TRANQUILITY AT THE PRESENCE OF OTHERS] (Naser Taqvai, 1973, 86 min)
A retired colonel who has married a young teacher named Manizheh after the death of his wife, lives in a small city. He sells his chicken factory and comes to the capital in order to live with his daughters Maliheh and Meh Agha. His daughters have free life style. Ameneh, the maid, tries to keep the daughters' life style hidden from their father's view. Father is sad about the daughters' life style. He resorts to alcohol. Maliheh, the older daughter who has grown impatient with her fiance, Sepanloo, commits suicide by cutting her vein. Mah Agha who is pregnant ends up marrying Ali despite her will. Colonel reaches madness. Manizheh with help of Masoud (?) and Atashi (?) take him to a sanitarium and start caring for him.
link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uYWXxmyfTQ
A married man with wife and child falls in love with another woman, Homa. He is suffering within struggling between a sense of family responsibility and his feelings toward Homa. He gives in but Homa suddenly leaves him. He is left at the end with Ahoo Khanum, his wife, and a memory of Homa.
KOLAH MAKHMALI [VELVET HAT WEARER] (Kushan, 1962, 90 min)
A tough guy, with velvet hat, is released from jail and he pledges not to return to prviosu lifestyle and pursue a reputable manner. But, his previous buddies set him up with drugs in order to get rid of him. Kolah Makhmali escapes to a remote village. He is taken for a young village man over there due to similar features. The village guy ends up getting arrested instead and put in jail. Meanwhile, Kolah Makhmali falls in love with village's head. He ends up facilitating the arrest of a group of wrong doers who were planning to steal from the headman and ends up acquitting himself and marrying headman's daughter. The young village guy who looked like him is also released from jail and marries his favorite girl.
DELHOREH [PANIC] (Samuel Khachikian, 1962, 100 min)
Behrooz, husband of Roshanak Niknejad, is a writer of crime novels and also runs the factory owned by Roshanak's uncle who died in an accident. A man name Babak who reaches Roshanak as a journalist and threatens her subsequently with having in his possession Roshanak's love letters. He asks for 50,000 tomans for five letters and sleeping with her in exchange of the sixth one. Roshanak gives Babak the money but before he succeeds in sleeping with her she shoots him dead. Roshanak returns home and starts seeing Babak in various places there. Meanwhile Jamshid, a policeman, who used to love Roshanak and is now investigating mysterious death of Roshanak's uncle also enters into the story. Jamshid who suspects Roshanak might have killed her uncle finds out that Behrooz is behind the whole plot as he has been trying to get rid of both Roshanak and her uncle in order to possess their wealth. Jamshid fights with Behrooz and wins over him and arrests his co-conspirators.
link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH9g-hhXzew
FARYAD-E NIMEH SHAB [MIDNIGHT CRY] (Samuel Khachikian, 1961,
Amir who needs money to marry his fiance, Maryam, starts working for Afshar who is a hooligan in business of printing fake bank notes. Afshar's wife falls in love with Amir but gets no attention from him. Until one day that Afshar finds hims wife alone with Amir. A fight breaks out. Afshar and his wife both die in shooting to each other and Amir goes back to his fiance.
link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB2cw2H_7pc
GILDA (Charles Vidor, 1946, 105 min)
link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JASOknn1BKM
SEH DIVANEH [THREE MADMEN] (Jalal Moqaddam, 1968, 110 min)
A trio, a hairdresser, a nurse, and a cook, work in a sanitarium. They notice that a man in collusion with his partner, Teymur, is planning to bring his niece, Pervaneh, to the sanitarium so he can takes over her wealth before she reaches the legal age. The trio watch over Parvaneh and prevent Teymur to suffocate her in the bathtub. When Teymur decides to take Parvaneh out of sanitarium for the excuse of sending her to Austria, the trio run away with Parvaneh and go hiding. They go to Parvaneh's uncle's house and Mansour (?) cunningly (?) proves to Parvaneh that the plot to kill her was run by her uncle. They return to sanitarium and Parvaneh starts working there as a nurse.
ARAMESH DAR HOZOOR-E DIGARAN [TRANQUILITY AT THE PRESENCE OF OTHERS] (Naser Taqvai, 1973, 86 min)
A retired colonel who has married a young teacher named Manizheh after the death of his wife, lives in a small city. He sells his chicken factory and comes to the capital in order to live with his daughters Maliheh and Meh Agha. His daughters have free life style. Ameneh, the maid, tries to keep the daughters' life style hidden from their father's view. Father is sad about the daughters' life style. He resorts to alcohol. Maliheh, the older daughter who has grown impatient with her fiance, Sepanloo, commits suicide by cutting her vein. Mah Agha who is pregnant ends up marrying Ali despite her will. Colonel reaches madness. Manizheh with help of Masoud (?) and Atashi (?) take him to a sanitarium and start caring for him.
link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uYWXxmyfTQ
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