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5/3/2011
Bertolucci Honored at Cannes Festival
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The 64th Cannes Film Festival Opened on May 11 |
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Tehran, May 14, 2011: The 64th Cannes film festival has kicked off with world-renowned Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci receiving an honorary Palm d+Or.
Well versed in international cinema, Bertolucci received the award at the festival+s opening ceremony on May 11. His 1970 film The Conformist"was scheduled to go on screen on Thursday in a restored print.
Woody Allen+s latest film, Midnight in Paris, opened the festival on May 12, presstv.com reported.
Allen+s romantic comedy follows a writer who goes back in time to 1920s Paris.
“In this movie I wanted to present a new image of Paris, would be totally different from the previous ones, to show it very subjectively, rather than realistically,†Allen said about his movie.
In an interview, Allen said he did not consider himself an artist but aspired to be one.
"I don+t have the depth or substance or the gift. If you think of Kurosawa, Bergman, or Fellini, it is clear that I+m not one. But I could write about the historical figures in Midnight in Paris easily in an amusing way because I+m not trying to make them deep or profound characters."
Rachel McAdams, Adrian Brody, Owen Wilson and Carla Bruni, the wife of French president Nicolas Sarkozy, appear in Allen+s movie.
Meanwhile, UK documentary Unlawful Killing, which is about Princess Diana+s death, was the focus of attention for the media on Friday.
The film sets out to prove a cover-up by the establishment over the death of Princess Diana, her partner Dodi al-Fayed and the car+s driver Henri Paul in Paris in 1997.
Directed by Keith Allen and financially supported by Mohamed al-Fayed, father of Dodi, the film went on the screen at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival on Friday.
Robert Deniro, who has starred in two Palme d+Or winners Taxi Driver and The Mission, is heading the jury this year. Other jury members are Jude Law, Olivier Assayas, Johnnie To, Uma Thurman, Linn Ullmann (late Swedish director Ingmar Bergman+s daughter), Martina Gusman, Nansun Shi and Mhamat Saleh Haroun.
The festival will run until May 21.
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 8/14/2012
Two earthquakes in Iran kill more than 300 and injure 5,000
Overcrowded hospitals in northwest Iran struggled to cope with thousands of earthquake victims on Sunday as rescuers raced to reach remote villages after two powerful quakes killed nearly 300 people. |
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 8/13/2012
Iranian wrestlers win 2 bronze medals
Iranian wrestlers Ehsan Naser Lashgari and Komeil Qasemi have won bronze medals at the London 2012 Olympic Games. |
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 8/6/2012
Iran to exhibit works by Gunther Uecker
Iran is planning to exhibit works by modern German sculptor and installation artist Gunther Uecker at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts. The event will be held from September 16 to November 1, 2012 ... |
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 8/4/2012
"When Artists Attack the King: Honoré Daumier and La Caricature, 1830-1835" opens at Cantor Arts Center
STANFORD, CA.- Long before iranian cartoonist Mahmoud Shokraiyeh was sentenced to 25 lashings for drawing a parliament member in a soccer jersey, 19th-century caricaturist Honoré Daumier and his colleagues ... |
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 8/1/2012
Farhadi’s film takes N America by storm
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-winning film A Separation has taken the North America’s movie theaters by storm as the second top-grossing foreign-language film in 2012. |
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 7/30/2012
London to exhibit installation by Iran’s Shirin Sabahi
The Saatchi Gallery is slated to display an installation work created by the Iranian artist Shirin Sabahi in the British capital of London.
The event is part of the 2011 Contemporary Art Prize (CAP) ... |
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 7/24/2012
US, Iranian team excavate Siraf
A team of American and Iranian archaeologists has launched underwater excavations at the historical port of Siraf in the Persian Gulf. |
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 7/22/2012
Mutatis Mutandis: Group show curated by Cathrine David opens at Vienna's Secession
VIENNA.- Mutatis Mutandis brings together a number of works that explore the complexity of contemporary events, materiality, history, and memories, and propose possible re-presentations. Discontinuous ... |
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 7/7/2012
The 2nd Tehran Annual Digital Art Exhibition [TADAEX] was opened on Friday, July 6th.
The first day of The 2nd Tehran Annual Digital Art Exhibition [TADAEX] was opened among the unexpected attendance of the audience. |
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 7/2/2012
UNESCO registers Isfahan Friday Mosque
Isfahan’s Friday Mosque has been inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, making it the 14th Iranian site registered on the roll. The independent, 21-member World Heritage Committee announced the ... |
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