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July 4, 2016
Vincent van Gogh:
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Arts & Culture
‘Deer Hunter’ director Cimino
dies aged 77
Michael Cimino, whose roller-coaster career as a Hollywood
film director included Oscar-winner ‘The Deer Hunter’ and
legendary box office flop ‘Heaven’s Gate’, died at the age of
77, US media reported.
The success of ‘The
Deer Hunter’ — a 1978
film about the Vietnam
War starring Robert De
Niro — made Cimino
one of the most soughtafter directors in Hollywood. The film won
five Academy Awards,
including best picture
and best director, Reuters
wrote.
But he followed up
in 1980 with ‘Heaven’s
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Gate’, an epic Western
that New York Times critic Vincent Canby called “an unqualified disaster”. The film came in way over budget at $36 million, three times the average cost of a movie then.
Cimino’s career never fully recovered.
“He went from a big Oscar film to suddenly being a pariah — everybody’s whipping boy,” Kris Kristofferson, who
starred in the film, told the Los Angeles Times in 2004. “Everybody who didn’t get to do a film blamed ‘Heaven’s Gate’,
saying all the money went to ‘Heaven’s Gate’.”
Born in New York City to a wealthy family, Cimino earned
a master’s degree in architecture at Yale University. He was
a well-known director of TV commercials before directing
his first movie, ‘Thunderbolt and Lightfoot’ — a crime drama
starring Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges, in 1974.
After the flop of ‘Heaven’s Gate’, Cimino’s comeback film
in 1985, ‘Year of the Dragon’, starring Mickey Rourke as a
New York City cop, failed to excite either moviegoers or critics.
He followed up with ‘The Sicilian’, based on a Mario Puzo
novel; and ‘Desperate Hours’, a remake of a Humphrey Bogart film about a fugitive, starring Rourke and Anthony Hopkins. Both films were panned by critics and largely ignored by
filmgoers.
His final Hollywood film, 1996’s ‘The Sunchaser’, a drama
about a doctor, played by Woody Harrelson, who is kidnapped
by a dying patient, didn’t fare any better and marked the end
of Cimino’s career.
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Tehran’s Niavaran Cultural
Center is hosting the exhibition
‘Art for Autism’ until July 5,
2016.
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Farhadi’s ‘The Salesman’ wins Munich top prize
Museum of Modern Art opens
retrospective of Conner’s works
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art announced a retrospective devoted
to Bruce Conner, spanning his 50-year career.
‘Bruce Conner: It’s All True’ is the artist’s first monographic museum exhibition in New York — the first large survey
of his work in 16 years, and the first complete retrospective.
Bringing together over 250 objects in mediums including film
and video, painting, assemblage, drawing, prints, photography, photograms, and performance, the exhibition will be on
view at MoMA (July 3 to October 2, 2016), Sfmoma (October
29, 2016, to January 22, 2017), and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid (February 21 to May 22,
2017), artdaily.com reported.
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ranian drama ‘The Salesman’ by Academy
Award winner Asghar Farhadi scooped the top
prize at the 34th Munich Film Festival in Germany.
‘The Salesman’ was awarded the €50,000
($56,300) prize for best international film at the
closing ceremony of the 10-day festival, Mehr
News Agency reported.
“We decided to give this award to a film that,
while being contemporary, has an international vision and most importantly, a lookout to the future.
A story full of excitement and wonders. A film
about what we are or could be as a human being,”
said a member of the panel of jury said in a statement on granting ‘The Salesman’ the best international film award.
‘The Salesman’ narrates the story of Emad and
Rana who, forced out of their apartment due to
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Minister: We owe truth-seeking
authors our appreciation
dangerous works on a neighboring building, move
into a new apartment in central Tehran. However,
an incident linked to the previous tenant will dramatically change the young couple’s life.
Farhadi’s latest flick also won Best Actor and
Best Screenplay in Cannes recently.
Over 200 films from 62 countries were screened
in what is Germany’s second-most important cinema industry event after the wintertime Berlinale,
held on June 23 to July 2 in the German city of
Munich.
In addition to ‘The Salesman’, ‘Avalanche’ by
Morteza Farshbaf and ‘Yahya Didn’t Keep Quiet’
by Kaveh Ebrahimpour also participated as International Independents in the festival. Top Iranian
actress Fatemeh Motamed-Aria who starred in
both films was in Munich to present her films in
person.
‘A Moment’ enough for
picking two Italian awards
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The exhibition is organized by SFMOMA and co-curated
by Stuart Comer, chief curator, Department of Media and Performance Art, MoMA; Laura Hoptman, curator, Department
of Painting and Sculpture, MoMA; Rudolf Frieling, curator
of media arts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Gary
Garrels, The Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and
Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; with Rachel Federman, assistant curator, painting and sculpture, San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Conner (1933–2008) was one of the foremost American
artists of the postwar era. Emerging from the California art
scene, in which he worked for half a century, Conner’s work
touches on various themes of postwar American society, from
a rising consumer culture to the dread of nuclear apocalypse.
Creating a body of work that exemplifies the fluidity between mediums that has become a hallmark of 21st-century
art, Conner worked simultaneously in a range of mediums,
often creating hybrids of painting and sculpture, film and performance, drawing and printing.
Iran’s Culture Minister Ali
Jannati said that just and
truth-seeking authors support the power of political
authorities and should be appreciated.
In a message to mark National Author’s Day (July 4),
the minister adding that the
day is commemorated not
just for authors of books but
also for those involved in all
kinds of writings since thinking and writing
are the basis of all kinds arts, IRNA reported.
He added that unlike the general perception
which encompasses authors, translators and
journalists are also among the literati. So the
day belongs to all the people whose thoughts
create an excellent artistic and cultural work,
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he noted.
Jannati added that authors
are engaged in a holy mission and they should pursue justice in creating their
works.
He pointed to one of the
most memorable sayings of
the Holy Prophet (PBUH)
that “The ink of the scholar
is more sacred than the
blood of the martyr”, and
said that this adage makes
the value of literati more
evident.
The day is an opportunity to remember the
dignity of literati which must be seized to appreciate all those who spent their lives for promotion of Iranian art and culture.
The day is observed each year on July 4 in a
ceremony attended by artistic figures.
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Iranian film ‘A Moment’, by Naqi
Nemati, received two awards at the
23rd Calpalbio Cinema International, an Italian short film festival.
A production of Iranian Youth
Cinema Society’s Ardabil branch,
‘A Moment’ won the Gran Prix
Best Cinematography (Rozbeh
Rayga) and Reset-Dialogues on
Civilizations Prize at the festival
which took place from July 29 to
August 2 in Rome, IRNA reported.
“Created in 1994 with Michelangelo Antonioni as godfather, the
festival has told over 23 years and
through thousands of short films the
complex and intricate story of our
changing cultures from all over the
globe. Growing into a hub of young
talents, who are offered a platform
to show their first works, Capalbio
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Cinema screens the best of the world
short film production. Its ambition is
to affirm a position as a creative accelerator, industry meeting location
and training initiatives,” the festival’s
official website wrote.
World renowned directors and
producers are usually invited as
juries; Iran’s Abbas Kiarostami
served on the festival’s panel of
jury in 2007. The festival has as
its side-events film market, scriptwriting training workshop held by
Sundance, etc.
The crew of ‘A Moment’ includes director of photography
Rozbeh Rayga and sound recorder
Hassan Shabankareh. Among the
cast are Qorban Najafi, Ghafour
Maleki, Behzad Davari, Darioush
Qanbani, Yousef Yazdani and Siamak Adib — all obscure actors of
native Ardabil.
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