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9 articles from 2009
The Notebook's 2nd Annual Writers' Poll: Fantasy Double Features of 2009, Part I
11 hours ago | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »
With 2009 rounding to a close, it already feels like best-of and top-ten lists have been pouring in for months, and we’re already tired of them: the ranking, the exclusions (and inclusions), the rules and the qualifiers. Some people got to see films at festivals, others only catch movies on video; and the ability for us, or any publication, to come up with a system to fairly determine who saw what when and what they thought was the best seems an impossible feat. That doesn’t stop most people from doing it, but we thought we’d shake things up a bit. Last year we polled the contributors to The Notebook to find some general consensus on what movies everyone liked. For our 2nd Annual Writers’ Poll, we’re doing things differently.
I asked our contributors to pick a single new film they saw in 2009—in theaters or at a »
Review of the decade: Peter Bradshaw's noughties round-up
7 December 2009 3:01 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Hollywood struggled to respond to the war on terror, documentaries went through a golden age, and Michael Haneke was the noughties' moral conscience
If it is possible to whimper at the volume of a bang, then that is how this decade is ending on the big screen: with two high-profile, high-budget movies about the end of the world: Roland Emmerich's cheerfully silly 2012, and John Hillcoat's cheerlessly serious The Road, which arrive with a good deal of commentary to the effect that these movies typify the zeitgeist of the decade.
The noughties – that jokey word coined in the carefree 90s – are seen as damaged, injured, traumatised. The decade looks cracked from top to bottom by a sensational act of terrorism; by a reaction that achieved neither political palliative nor military success; by the confrontation between first-world prosperity and developing-world poverty; by the coming environmental catastrophe that threatens to engulf both; and finally, »
- Peter Bradshaw
Makhmalbaf: Iran should face smarter sanctions
26 November 2009 8:29 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Iran's revolutionary guards should be subject to sanctions to force Tehran to curb its nuclear ambitions and respect democracy, the country's leading film-maker and unofficial spokesman for the opposition Green Movement has said.
"If foreign governments deal only with the atomic bomb and forget about democracy and human rights in Iran, they will help dictatorship," Mohsen Makhmalbaf told the Guardian.
"If they want peace in the Middle East, they need a democratic government in Iran. Pressure from inside and pressure from outside can change things."
Makhmalbaf is widely seen as representing Mir Hossein Mousavi, who claimed victory over Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June's bitterly disputed presidential election. His outspoken comments highlight the dilemma for the Us and others: how to engage the Iranian regime over the nuclear issue without undermining the opposition, still reeling over the crisis that erupted when the incumbent hardliner confounded expectations by beating Mousavi in an allegedly rigged vote. »
- Ian Black
Mohsen Makhmalbaf talks to Ian Black | Audio
26 November 2009 1:03 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Five months after the tumult of the Iranian presidential elections, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, a leading spokesman for the opposition movment, is in London to receive the Freedom to Create prize.
The internationally acclaimed director of Kandahar and Sex & Philosophy tells the Guardian's Middle East editor, Ian Black, about the need to link sanctions to human rights and democracy, and why any military action would backfire.
- Ian Black
Iranian Director Makhmalbaf Wins Freedom to Create Prize
25 November 2009 11:43 AM, PST | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
By Reuters
Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf ("Kandahar") won the Freedom to Create Prize on Wednesday, and dedicated his award to leading cleric Hossein Ali Montazeri and the popular opposition movement he supports. He also said he would use the $50,000 prize money to highlight injustice in Iran.
"I've been in Afghanistan, Tajikistan and India making films about Iran but from the outside," he told Reuters in London before receiving the annual award that honors artists working in difficult or dangerous environments. He left the country about five years ago.
The »
- Lisa Horowitz
Bollywood Director Chopra Gets Film Festival Honour
4 September 2009 9:06 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Veteran Bollywood director Yash Chopra is set to receive a prestigious honour - organisers of the international Pusan Film Festival have named him Asian filmmaker of the year.
Asian Cinema Night will be held in Chopra's honour at the upcoming 14th annual event, held in South Korea.
The 76 year old made his directorial debut in 1959 with Dhool ka phool (Blossom in the Dust).
The Yash Raj Films founder has produced, written and directed celebrated films including Waqt, Deewar, Kabhi Kabhie, Lamhe, Darr, Dil To Pagal Hai, and Veer-Zaara.
Previous recipients of the Asian filmmaker of the year award include Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Taiwan's Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang, Hong Kong's Andy Lau, and Kazakhstan's Gulnara Sarsenova.
The festival is scheduled to run from 8 to 16 October. »
‘Persepolis’ Creator Marjane Satrapi Decries Iran’s Election Results
18 June 2009 10:11 AM, PDT | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »
Probably the best known Iranian creator in comics today, Marjane Satrapi’s two-volume graphic novel memoir “Persepolis” captivated readers internationally when it was published by Pantheon before the feature-length animated adaptation she directed earned an Oscar nomination. This week, she and fellow filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf let their views be known about the recent, contested Iranian election, and presented a document that she believes proves current president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lost to challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi.
“Ahmadinejad received only 12 percent of the vote, not 65 percent,” said Satrapi, according to Adnkronos. She and Makhmalbaf presented the document, which they claimed came directly from the Iranian electoral commission, to the Green Party MPs in the European parliament.
Satrapi and Makhmalbaf believe that the democratic process in Iran was derailed when election results were ignored and replaced with fraudulent results naming Ahmadinejad as the winner with more than 65 percent of the vote.
Satrapi, who was »
- Brian Warmoth
Iran Election: Persepolis’ Satrapi Presents Evidence Ahmadinejad Lost
16 June 2009 10:13 AM, PDT | Spout.com | See recent Spout news »
Adnkronos, an Italian press agency that specializes in English-language news from the Arab world, is reporting today that Persepolis creator/co-director Marjane Satrapi and her fellow Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf (probably best known here for his 2001 film Kandahar) "presented a document to Green Party MPs in the European parliament claiming to show that defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi had received over 19 million votes in the weekend election." The document, purportedly from the Iranian Electoral Commission, also claims that standing president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came in third place with just 12 percent of the national vote. »
- Karina Longworth
Mohsen Makhmalbaf Speaks Out On The Iranian Coup
13 June 2009 9:14 PM, PDT | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »
As news reports come in from the aftermath of Iran's highly contested and most likely fraudulent election, film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, a supporter of challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi, is one of the voices speaking out. From a post by Abbas Djavadi on the blog Iran & Beyond: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, a prominent film producer supporting Mousavi, who stayed in his favored candidate’s headquarters, told Radio Farda that they were called by the Election Commission well before the first results were announced. “Don’t announce Mr. Mousavi’s victory yet,” they were told by authorities. “We will gradually prepare the public and then you can proceed.” Apparently, though, a well-prepared plan was at the works, but in a completely different direction. »
- Scott Macaulay
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9 articles from 2009
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