Daily Briefing. Ozon Wraps and Lynch Teases
David HudsonAlso: Iranian filmmakers and actors call for an international boycott of official Iranian film and TV organizations.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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The Forgotten: 1001 Nights at the Cinema
David Cairns"Plant rice if you want to harvest in a year. Plant trees to get fruit in ten. Cultivate a person to develop in a hundred years. The cinema cultivates people." On what basis can any work by Mohsen
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The Auteurs Daily: Venice and Toronto. Women without Men and Green Days
David HudsonShirin Neshat's Women without Men and Hana Makhmalbaf's Green Days are both set in Iran during turbulent periods of that nation's history - Women, half a century ago; Green Days, just months ago. Both
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The Auteurs Daily: Cineaste
David Hudson"The desire for a critical framework capable of both political acumen and esthetic incisiveness is at the heart of Cineaste's project." Introducing the Fall 2009 issue, the editors note that "Rahul