Thursday, 29 May 2014
Monday, 19 May 2014
Thursday, 15 May 2014
My Name is Negahdar Jamali and I Make Westerns
I'm proud to announce one of my favourite recent Iranian films is coming to London. My Name is Negahdar Jamali and I Make Westerns (2012) which is called by its young and talented filmmaker, Kamran Heydari, a "docuwestern" is going to be screened at the Open City Docs festival on Sunday, June 22, 2014. Tickets can be purchased here.
Negahdar hilariously recreates many familiar western settings while focusing on the life of a simple, poor worker/farmer who loves making westerns. Heidari’s film shows Negahdar trying to make a new western with local friends and reveals how in the process he loses his house and family and eventually, like a traditional cowboy, is left on his own to vanish into a horizon. The film, in its dry, hopeless feeling and its landscape of decadence, is much closer to Budd Boetticher than John Ford (whose legendary introductory line has inspired the title of this film). Negahdar is more or less a synthesis of both Boetticher and Randolph Scott. His minimalism and no-budget, semi- experimental films, like a crossover between the poorest of B westerns and Jack Smith, stands out as ultra primitive drafts of Boetticher’s westerns, and, on the other hand, his individualism puts him is the same category as Randolph Scott’s laconic avengers.
Negahdar hilariously recreates many familiar western settings while focusing on the life of a simple, poor worker/farmer who loves making westerns. Heidari’s film shows Negahdar trying to make a new western with local friends and reveals how in the process he loses his house and family and eventually, like a traditional cowboy, is left on his own to vanish into a horizon. The film, in its dry, hopeless feeling and its landscape of decadence, is much closer to Budd Boetticher than John Ford (whose legendary introductory line has inspired the title of this film). Negahdar is more or less a synthesis of both Boetticher and Randolph Scott. His minimalism and no-budget, semi- experimental films, like a crossover between the poorest of B westerns and Jack Smith, stands out as ultra primitive drafts of Boetticher’s westerns, and, on the other hand, his individualism puts him is the same category as Randolph Scott’s laconic avengers.
Sunday, 4 May 2014
Actors Sing!
يازده ستارۀ سينما كه آواز خواندند
آوازهخوان، نه آواز
وقتي ستارههاي سينما حوصلهشان از جلوي دوربين نقش بازي كردن سرميرود تصميمهاي تازهاي ميگيرند و سعي ميكنند استعدادشان را در چيزهايي ديگر بيازمايند. بعضي پشت دوربين ميروند و كارگرداني ميكنند. بعضي نقاشي ميكنند (كيم نوواك اخيراً نمايشگاهي از نقاشيهايش داشت. آنها فاجعهاند)؛ بعضي باغباني و بعضي آشپزي (وينست پرايس، اين شاهزادۀ ظلمت، در مواقع بيكاري در برنامههاي آشپزي ظاهر ميشد) را انتخاب ميكنند. بعضيهايش نقش بازي كردن را در سياست ادامه ميدهند (رانالد ريگان، سرجيو نيكلايسكو) و بعضي ميزنند زير آواز. در دستۀ آخر خيليهايشان كمابيش در دستۀ آوازهاي بداهه زيردوشي قرار ميگيرند كه فقط به گوش خودِ خواننده خوش ميآيد، اما بعضي حرفهاي بيشتر – يا نتهاي بيشتر – براي خواندن دارند.
Friday, 2 May 2014
Thursday, 1 May 2014
Notes on Garde à vue
کلود میلر كه
در سال ۲۰۱۲ درگذشت کارنامهاي
نسبتاً ناشناخته و مبهم از خود در خارج از فرانسه برجاي گذاشت. در بين ناشناختهماندههاي
سينماي او، فيلمهاي اوليهاش جذابيتي انكارناپذير دارند. کمپانی آلمانی کنکورد (Concorde)
اخیراً Garde à vue (بازداشت، 1981) یکی از بهترین آثار میلر
را به صورت Blu-Ray منتشر کرده، فرصتی که باید برای نگاه دوبارهای
به سینمای این فیلمساز فقید مغتنم شمرد.
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