Available to watch on Vimeo w/ English subs: https://vimeo.com/164049740. Under the watchful eye of the Ayatollah Khomeini, Iranian cinema was expected to suffocate a slow death, and yet unexpectedly it rose out of the ashes of the Revolution to become what, by the 1990s, was an internationally celebrated national cinema: the so-called New Iranian Cinema. Bahram Beizai Iranian Revolution, popular uprising in 1978–79 that resulted in the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty and the establishment of an Islamic republic. | Iran Culture Pre-Revolution Movies in Iran At every movie theater there was a dress code the women were not allowed to wear chadors guys had to dress more western Iran forbade passion plays the movies directors made movies of the Persian literature and ancient Persian mythology Pre-revolutionary Iranian cinema contains films and cinematic events made in Iran before Iranian revolution era. He escapes to city of Marv and hides in a mill but finally gets killed. Director Amir Naderi's inspiration for making the film was one of his ... See full summary », Director: Stars: A great introduction on art and in entertainment in Iran before the advent of cinema is provided in M. Ali Issari book: Cinema in Iran: 1900-1979 pages: 40 -67. | Stars: But encounters with a lot of troubles he did not expect. Wikipedia, 2018, s.v. The two filmmakers could not be more different however: Kimiavi was the modernist Godardian iconoclast, while Shahid-Saless was a master of quiet and observational Chekhovian tales. Director: Ezzatollah Ramazanifar, 124 min Adventure, Drama, History, A director of a television series on the history of cinema, who has been grappling with the screenplay of his first feature film, receives an assignment to oversee the installation of a ... See full summary », Director: Drama. Farokh Ghafari Drama, Darvish Khan a deaf and mute man who is a shepherd lives with his family in the desert. All the work of three villainous brothers. And not only this, his directorial vision demonstrated incredible aesthetic precision: the camera remains static throughout, the compositions are exquisitely geometric, and the takes are ritualistically long, like a still life painting come alive. | Under the monarchy, modern sports were incorporated into the school curricula. Iranian cinema was anything but limited to poetry and humanism, although both elements existed in some of the pre-revolutionary arthouse films. Hanging out in a pool hall, Ali Khoshdast becomes involved in a brawl with three brothers, and accidently kills one of them. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, It asks the questions: what has changed for women in cinema after the revolution? | Parviz Kimiavi, I’ve chosen 10 films, all made before the Iranian Revolution, and by 10 different fillmmakers. Love, which had been an integral theme in Iranian cinema before the revolution (a clear influence of Persian poetry), could no longer be depicted in movies after … Crime, Drama. Through the years, Mohamad has done little to stifle ... See full summary », Directors: Iran - Iran - Sports and recreation: Wrestling, horse racing, and ritualistic bodybuilding are the traditional sports of the country. Esmail Davarfar, 81 min It is a cumulatively powerful tale of transition and change. ( Log Out /  | Director: Ali Nassirian, | In fact, Iran had a new wave of its own in the late 1960s and early 1970s, making great and often critical films right under the nose of the Shah and his oppressive regime’s unequal march towards so-called modernisation. Mohammad Reza Aslani Amir Naderi Hossein Mansouri, 126 min Ali Mirza, 88 min Houshang Baharlou, It was upon seeing a film by Sohrab Shahid Saless (, Like Sabzian in Kiarostami’s 1990 boundary-blurring masterpiece, No overview of Iranian cinema before the Revolution (nor after it for that matter) would be complete without a film by the great Dariush Mehrjui. Nuri Kasrai, And how did the boy set fire to his jacket to signal on a night when it was raining cats and dogs anyway? Soraya Ghasemi, The pro-Western Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was determined to drag the country into the 20th-century, and photographs of 1970s Tehran give the outward appearance that it was little different from Washington or New York. Gently the camera glides over the daily lives of the colony’s residents without any sense of taboos being broken, with neither voyeurism nor sentimentality but in harmonious union with the people onscreen, while on the soundtrack her voice reads verses which poetically interrogate the divine. Jamshid Layegh, Director: Nuri Kasrai, 80 min Before the 1979 revolution, the clerics in Iran rejected cinema, or at best ignored it. Crime, Drama, Romance, Naderi's second film is set in the slums of Tehran. He has escaped the military service several times. But perhaps his greatest work, and certainly his most caustically critical, was The Cycle, made in 1974 but only finally allowed out of the Iranian censors’ vaults in 1978. Ezzatolah Entezami, Jaleh Sam, Nevertheless, the legacy of his films casts a long shadow over Iranian cinema: Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf cite him as an irreplaceable influence. Leila Baharan, revolutionary Iranian cinema by women, in comparison to pre-revolutionary representations of Iranian women in cinema. | He wants escape from his overworked carpenter father who has no time for him, from his distressed mother who is powerless to do anything but nag at him, and most of all from the tyrannical schoolmasters whose corporal punishment, rote learning, and constant shouting only further alienate him. Ezzatolah Entezami, The subject was a leper colony in northwestern Iran. | He goes... See full summary », Director: Mostafa Tari, 101 min As always Kiarostami draws exquisitely natural performances from his young actors, and his gaze is compassionately with Ghassem — indeed the way Ghassem ‘directs’ the other children during the photo-shoot sequence suggests there is plenty of Kiarostami himself in the boy — but Kiarostami does not simplistically load all the narrative stakes in Ghassem’s favour. Mahmoud Vafabakhsh, 93 min Armed with a new sense of possibility, Kiarostami soon after made The Traveller, his debut feature, about Ghassem, a young schoolboy in a provincial town. Iran Culture (Pre-Islamic Revolution) =) Describe some major iranian movies, including there plot and directors In 1930 the first iranian slient film was made by proffessor (Ovanes Ohanian) called Hawii Agha. But the doctor hides many dark secrets in his basement which are revealed little by little. Abbas Pourahadi, The first lady of a noble house has died and now there is conflict between the remainders for taking over her inheritance. This is not some unrealistically innocent boy and that makes him all the more affecting. Jalal Pishvaian, 105 min The period leading up to Iran's Islamic Revolution was a time of major upheaval and reform. Mohammad Eskandari, 86 min Habib Safaryan, 114 min | Stars: Parviz Fanizadeh, Why don’t more people know about it? Suddenly, Kimiavi’s film becomes a projection of his stream of consciousness, in which the various things on his mind (history, cinema, technology) coalesce into one fantastical cinematic daydream set in a timeless vision of Iran. Documentary, Short. Davoud Rashidi, Drama, For more than three decades, aging Iranian Mohamad Sardari (Zadour Bonyadi) has worked as a crossing guard at a desolate train station. Hibibollah Safarian, Change ). The Islamic Revolution of 1979 brought seismic changes to Iran, not least for women. Fakhri Khorvash, Prior research argues that children in Iranian cinema represent humanist themes and utopic images of Iranian society. Abbas Kiarostami She ... See full summary », Director: Daring to do what others only dream of, he digs up his trusty old rifle to wreak bloody revenge on figures who are obvious stand-ins for the wider social injustices of the Shah’s contemporary Iran, despite the film being set in the nominal past of the 1930s. Naser Taghvai The world tends to look at Iran in the context of pre-revolution and post. His sister Aghdas is pregnant and her husband is away in Kuwait, so they ... See full summary », Director: Stars: Shohreh Aghdashloo, 140 min Director: Reza Karam Rezai, He returns home, in a poor neighbourhood of Tehran after months away for work, to find his family has been ripped apart. Pouri Baneai, | | Drama, History, Mystery, When Mr. Esalat is looking for a topic for his TV show, he notices an advertisement in the newspaper about a missing girl. Hooshang Kavoosi, an Iranian film critic first used term Filmfarsi to point to Iranian popular films before revolution | Hedayatollah Navid, Before long he is sucked into a blood-selling ring which preys on alcoholics and junkies, desperate tramps and gamblers, literally taking their blood for a pittance, before selling it back to the hospital, where those same desperate souls will eventually seek treatment. In the boat is a wounded man Ayat who can not remember what had happened to him. Fereydun Gole He sticks around to try and ... See full summary », Director: Gheisar is the titular hero/anti-hero played by Iranian cinema icon Behrouz Vossoughi. Ezzatolah Entezami, The event started when four men doused the building with airplane fuel before setting it alight. IRAN HAS A long history of cinema The first Iranian documentary was filmed in 1900, the first public theater opened in 1904, and the first feature film was released in 1930. | Elsewhere, a group of fourth-wall-breaking Mongols wander the desert continually trying to escape Kimiavi’s film and calling into question his cinematic talents. With its final denouement, Kiarostami’s neo-neorealist film shows itself to be a moral fable, and we can only hope his young traveller who has captured our imaginations has learnt something from the journey. Drama. Jamshid Mashayekhi, Faramarz Gharibian, Stars: Parvaneh Massoumi, Stars: Parviz Kimiavi “Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.” ↵ Sadia Rafique and Khalid Manzoor Butt, “Position of Women in Iran: An Analysis of Pre and Post Islamic Revolution 1979,” South Asian Studies 32 (2017): 431-439. Over 41 years ago, the nation of Iran underwent a seismic shift. The idea of the tough guy, who has to prove himself and his masculine honour through physical action, is a long-existing archetype in Iranian culture. When awake he finds a stone and carry it ... See full summary », Director: Mehdi Montazar, Stars: Drama, Romance, Nayer is a young orphan girl who lives with her aunt Efat and is pregnant from Morteza who is a skint and careless about his life. The life of a tax collector who is accused of taking bribes, and also has to deal with other problems at home, including the suicide attempt of his wife. Saeed Kangarani, Here is a film with the meditative stasis of Ozu, the ascetic purity of Bresson, and the distilled temporality of Tarkovsky, exemplifying the rich variety of 1970s Iranian cinema. Why don’t more people know about it? Ali Naraghi, 120 min If you were under the impression that Iranian cinema’s tradition for self-reflexive films blurring the boundaries between fiction and documentary began with Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf, this half-hour pseudo-documentary has news for you. Fourouzan, Some believed the boy a hero, but just as many claimed he had done nothing at all. Esmat Safavi, 112 min Forough Farrokhzad stands as one of the great feminist poets anywhere in the 20th century. “Iranian Revolution.” ↵ Encyclopaedia Britannica, July 2018, s.v. The Lizard (2004)All the films that I have mentioned in this list are/were festival darlings. One is set in a public bath-house where the murder in the shower cubicle clearly nods to Hitchcock’s Psycho, the second in an abattoir, and the finale among deserted train tracks, the end of the line. | Drama, Hashem (Zakariya Hashemi) is a cab driver who finds an infant child in the back seat of his cab one night after he gives a ride to a young woman. But the film also undermines Gheisar’s quest, showing how heavy the cost of his violent vengeance truly is: by the end he has lost his fiancée and left his mother to die alone. Golestan all but gave up filmmaking after the Revolution, but he left us a unique masterpiece of paranoia, fear, responsibility and human existence. He sells flowers for living but one night outside the city he meets a strange woman who seems to running away from some people. Zackaria Hashemi, Not Rated Stars: | Drama, Mystery, In a remote village beside the sea in north of Iran the villagers see a boat which approaching them. | The House is Black (Forough Farrokhzad, 1962). Farzaneh Taidi, Anik Shefrazian, Sohrab Shahid Saless | But think also about what was happening in Iran at the time: just as the Shah was bombastically promoting his ego-driven campaigns of so-called modernisation and urbanisation, Shahid-Saless instead focuses with restraint and minimalism on the desolation of Iranian village life. Ali Nassirian, Stars: Arguably more famous and celebrated in Iran than Kiarostami was, Mehrjui is best known in the west for. Manuchehr Farid, He has an enemy, however, named Kaka Rostam, a mean and spiteful ... See full summary », Director: No matter how much he tries to obtain justice, he is met with nothing but further humiliation. Fakhri Khorvash, Khosrow Haritash Stars: Stars: Best Iranian Movies Before 1979-Revolution. | | While he's there, the cow dies and now the villagers are afraid of his possible reaction to it when he returns. | | | It was upon seeing a film by Sohrab Shahid Saless (A Simple Event) that a young Abbas Kiarostami felt an artistic epiphany. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Never a miserable social-realist film, Mehrjui’s strange picaresque tale uses Buñuelian touches and tonal shifts in its capture of the capitalist cycle of societal vampirism.
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