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Oscars international feature race 2025 guide: the contenders from Europe

Screen Daily 15 Nov 2024
Bafta’s film not in the English language category has seen European films win for 14 of the past 20 years ... Germany has selected Persian-language film by Iran’s Mohammad Rasoulof, winner of the special jury prize at Cannes.
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Fascinating pictures of Iran in the 1970s show how sex and fashion thrived before the Islamic...

The Daily Mail 10 Nov 2024
Persian actresses Haleh and Mahnaz pictured at soe point in the 1970s ... She started out as a voice-over actress but eventually moved on screen and co-starred in some of the highest-grossing Persian films of the era ... Persian singer Nooshafarin.
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Maine’s midcoast antiques corridor boasts fascinating finds

Bangor Daily News 05 Nov 2024
28, 2024 ... Located in the movie house that first showed “Peyton Place,” a film shot in the Camden area, this shop has 20 vendors that sell Persian rugs, vintage clothing, art, mid-century modern furniture, old postcards, tools, jewelry and more ... ....
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What links Mary Hopkin and Modern Jazz Quartet? The Saturday quiz

The Observer 27 Oct 2024
What is the fastest animal on two legs?. Survivor Kate ter Horst narrated the intro to what 1977 war film?. What ended at Ratcliffe-on-Soar in September after 142 years?. The Persian Gulf Pro League is which country’s top football division? ... Photograph ... .
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The Best Vampire Movies of All Time

Time 18 Oct 2024
The following 25 films, presented in the order in which they were released, are a collection of great movie recommendations, but they also speak to how movie vampires have evolved and changed.
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The Apprentice: a grotesque, compelling Trump satire

New Statesman 14 Oct 2024
She selected Iranian-Danish Ali Abbasi, whose films in Swedish and Persian have won prizes at Cannes but is probably best known here for having directed the apocalyptic last two episodes of The Last of Us.
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‘For Rana’: Busan Review

Screen Daily 07 Oct 2024
Yazdi cut his teeth as a short film director – his previous work includes (2014), (2012), and (2011) – and he also directed the Persian language TV series in 2022 ... However, the slightly heavy-handed storytelling may limit the film’s potential appeal.
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'Universal Language' named best Canadian movie at Vancouver film festival

North Shore News 03 Oct 2024
... Vancouver International Film Festival ... film ... The film sees Rankin play himself alongside a Persian-and French-speaking cast in an alternate universe where Winnipeg, Quebec and Tehran converge as one.
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TV tonight: Sophie Turner shines as a diamond thief in a juicy new drama

The Observer 29 Sep 2024
Mark Mainz/BBC/Euston Films ... This intimate, knotty film foregrounds the testimony of children growing up in the West Bank at a time of constant turmoil ... Film choice ... Mother on the dancefloor … family drama in The Persian Version on Sky Cinema Premiere ... .
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What's on? Top 10 TV and streaming tips for Sunday

RTE 29 Sep 2024
Award-winning documentary film-maker Marcel Mettelsiefen offers a ... The Persian Version, Sky Cinema Premiere & NOW. This is a 2023 American comedy drama film directed and written by Maryam Keshavarz.
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The Fall Is Finally Coming Back to Blu-Ray

New York Magazine 28 Sep 2024
... range and the natural landscape; for the three winter months when he’d return to Iran, he would soak up television, mostly American films dubbed into Persian, a language he didn’t yet speak well.
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Oscars International Race: Complete List of Entries So Far

The Wrap 18 Sep 2024
2 deadline for submitting films to the Oscars Best International Feature Film category nears, around 50 countries have announced their entries ... Additional films and countries will be added to the list as their entries are revealed.
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Tehran meeting to explore Persian literature's impact on cinema

Tehran Times 08 Sep 2024
TEHRAN- In celebration of National Cinema Day, the Film Museum of Iran will host a seminar titled "The Role of Persian Literature in Cinema" in Tehran, featuring filmmakers from Turkey ... .
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Medusa of the Roses by Navid Sinaki review – erotic Iranian noir

The Observer 01 Sep 2024
Threaded throughout are references to old Hollywood films as well as allusions to classical mythology and Persian folklore ... Threaded throughout Medusa of the Roses are references to old Hollywood films ...
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September Will Be a Great Month for Zack Snyder Fans

Collider 23 Aug 2024
The sword and sandal film tells the story of the 300 Spartan soldiers who fought under King Leonidas (Butler) at Thermopylae against King Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) and his gargantuan Persian army.

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