The Iranian Times
Monday, May 18, 1998 - Ordibehesht 28, 1377,
No. 481
Arts
Newsroom
* "Taste of Cherry": Intellectual rubbish?
* "Taste of Cherry" U.S. screen schedules
* Mahboubeh Nozari's antique fabric designs
* A look at theater in Japan
* 'Taste of Cherry,' and not a drop more (Washington Post) - "We
are living," says a deep thinker in a recent issue of Film Comment,
"in the age of Kiarostami." To which most people would feel justified
in responding, "Say what, Jack?" Abbas Kiarostami is the current
Anointed One of world cinema, an Iranian filmmaker whose clean, spare fables
ride the tantalizing line between the truly simple and the truly simplistic.
His new film, "Taste of Cherry," arrives today for a two-week
run at the American Film Institute, sustained by a blast of high-octane
New York critic-love so intense it feels like a napalm blaze. Is he great
or is this, in Orwell's memorable words, the sort of rubbish only intellectuals
could believe?... full
text
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* "Taste of Cherry" U.S. screen schedules from the official
Zeitgeist Film site... click
here
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* Mahboubeh Nozari's antique fabric designs, (Golestan Online Art
Gallery, Tehran). ... click
here
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* A look at theater in Japan, (Hamshahri)... full
text in Persian... Get Persian fonts from Hamshahri
or Payvand.
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