Released on: 1995
Rating: 6.70
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“This Is Not A Film” And More: Iranian Cinema At The Cannes Film Festival
When is a film not a film? In one of the triumphs of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the remarkable documentary This is Not A Film, by Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, asks this question and more as it portrays, diary-like, a day in Panahi’s life awaiting trial at his home in Tehran. Panahi talks on the phone with friends, illustrates with tape the boundaries of a future film set, chats with a garbage man who has just earned his Masters degree, and is kept company by his daughter’s free-roaming and giant pet lizard, Igi. If one is forbidden by law to make movies for 20 years, if one but sits in front of another’s camera, if one merely reads a vivid script aloud, does a word like “director” still have meaning?
Well-known to cinephiles for works including The White Balloon (winner of Cannes’ Golden Camera Award»
- Livia Bloom
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Warner Bros Begins Batman's 'Dark Knight Rises' Viral Campaign With Soundtrack Sliver & Tom Hardy Photo As Villain Bane
Warner Brothers on Friday kicked off the viral campaign for Chris Nolan's Batman threequel The Dark Knight Rises. On Twitter, @TheFireRises links users to the new website, which is all black and contains a disturbing soundtrack sliver. A subsection allows users to upload their own images to a collage that slowly forms the following Hardy/Bane photo. Very cool. Very Nolan:»
- NIKKI FINKE
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