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Radio show

I have "watched" many post Arab invasion of Iran movies too and I can tell you that just about everyone of them can be "viewed" with eyes closed as if they were radio shows. Very seldom they are visiually interesting, there is a very little action if any, no touching between "palyers", and non-existance special affects. Of course, there are cases that film makers have not cared about physical laws, local customs, etc.

Finally, the flow of some of the movies just doesn't make sense .. I am not sure that is because the script is written that way or if the movie goes under such a censorship that it just doesn't make sense.

There's no "shame" in enjoying movies ,فيلمهاي قديمي ايراني

UCLA celebrates Iranian modern cinema

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) marks the 18th annual Celebration of Iranian Cinema with seven new features from the country.

UCLA Film & Television Archive in collaboration with the Bijan and Soraya Amin Foundation presents the 18th Annual Celebration of Iranian Cinema.

With the Iranian culture being the major identifiable theme of this year's program, the event provides audiences with the opportunity to discover new filmmaking talent from Iran.

This year's collection will screen various aspects of the Iranian culture from The Red Card a love triangle and murder to military culture in Night Bus and Those Three.

Persian Carpet is another film in this series which features contributions by 15 leading directors, including Abbas Kiarostami, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Bahman Farmanara, Dariush Mehrjui and many others. Its approaches to the subject is as varied as the colors and designs that make up the Persian carpet.

Tehran Has no More Pomegranates! is to screen the history of the Iranian capital from its ancient bazaars to sparkling new shopping malls and congested thoroughfares.

The selection of short films and videos from Iran is scheduled for March 14 to April 20, 2008.
Greeting

I'm a natural born film

I'm a natural born film watcher and have no problem recognizing it. During the last 5 years I've watched many Iranian films (post-1979) and can tell you that some of the films so much acclaimed and loved 'outside' Iran never appealed to me. However, many other films made for Iranians in Iran are wonderful jobs. I've downloaded many of them and can mention some:

Bide Majnoon---Director: Majid Majidi and casting (Parviz Parastooi)

It's Winter (Zemestan Ast) Director: Rafi Pitts

Eteraz (Thew Protest) Director: Masoud Kimiai

Mim Mesle Madar-- Director: Rasoul Mollagolipour

Mahiha Ashegh Mishavand--Director: Ali Rafii

Range Khoda--Majid majidi

Khabe Sefid (Hamid Jebeli) my favourite

It's true that many films in Iran are about current social problems in Iran (Which I consider a plus) however I wouldn't even compare it to what we had before 1979 (with few exceptions)

Iran became known for its unique way of film making among the most prestigious and well respected Europan filmmakers. Iran has very good and profesional directors as well as actors/actresses.

Hamid Jebeli, Fatemeh Motamed Aria, Ostad Entezami, Parviz Parastooi, Mohamad Reza Sharifinia, Tahmineh Milani, Hedieh Tehrani, Niki Karimi and many many others...

To me Iran has a very robust and very professional filmaking stablishment that is actually 'art'. In recent years some 'commercial' films have been made casting popular good looking actors/actresses, but that's also part of a robust filmaking.

On the other hand I think that there's a worldwide misconception that 'hollywood' filmmaking is superficial and not artistic. However, some of the very best artistic films have been produced in Hollywood itself.

Kamangir

both are alike though post is a bit deeper!

May be it is a matter of taste. But you can not say the pre-revolution movies were 'better' than the post revs, generally speaking.

They were shallower in terms of artistic, sociological an philosophic themes. They were more superficial, with few great exceptions of course, but on the other hand they were more hillarious or better said : alakikhosh.

The post rev movies are not that good either, even though they can express more deep meanings yet they are still censored and many of them are 'gloomy'.
Yet you can find quite a few good artistic works among them.

But in general, excepting a few good works, most Iranian movies of pre and post rev are junks, void of technical artifacts or deep meaning.

Sweet spot

There's no "shame" in enjoying movies purely for entertainment. There's nothing to feel guilty about when you say you like FilmFarsis from before the revolution. They are widely liked because they were made to be liked by the masses. Like vanilla ice cream. These days I would prefer a banana or some khorma with a glass of milk, but let's not deny the yumminess of milk chocolate.