#Bahram Beyzai

[sacredwhores]

Bahram Beyzai - Downpour (1972)

#film #bahram beyzai #downpour #ragbar #1972

[aansoo]

favorite shots from Killing Mad Dogs / سگ کشی

directed by Bahram Beyzai (2001), starring Mozhdeh Shamsai

#there was one more shot i couldn't find it oh well #the quality of the version i watched was so bad anyway #i really liked the film's portrayal of patriarchy and the heroine's resolute strength despite the challenges she faced #the last shot is my favorite #a #sagkoshi #killing mad dogs #bahram beyzai #iranian cinema

[cine-poeme]

“گفت‌وگو با باد” 

#bahram beyzai #dialogue with the wind #kish island #iranian cinema #veiled woman #1998

[drinkingdownthepoison]

Bahram Beyzai, Bashu, Gharibeye Koochak, 1986

#film #Bahram Beyzai #Bashu Gharibeye Koochak #bashu the little stranger #bashu #Firooz Malekzadeh #iranian cinema #80s #film still

[bbbesstia]

amareazul on IG

Iran, July 1999, captured by Alexandra Avakian for the National Geographic, on set of film director Bahram Beyzai for his movie "Dialogue with the Wind"

#alexandra avakian #national geographic #bahram beyzai #dialogue with the wind #photography #Instagram

[whileiamdying]

The Runner

Childhood takes on mythic dimensions in one of the defining works of postrevolutionary Iranian cinema. Inspired by director Amir Naderi’s own boyhood, The Runner is lit from within by Madjid Niroumand’s electrifying performance as a young orphan fending for himself on the streets of a port city, determined to rise above his circumstances—working odd jobs, passing time with friends, learning to read—and running, always running, toward the future. Water, fire, the human body in motion: in hypnotic images of lyrical power, Naderi finds unexpected glory in the world of a boy suspended between modernity and elemental natural forces as he chases his own path forward.

#The Runner #دونده #Amir Naderi #امیر نادری #Behrouz Gharibpour #بهروز غریب‌پور #Majid Niroumand #مجید نیرومند #Firooz Malekzadeh #فیروز ملک‌زاده #Bahram Beyzai #بهرام بیضائی #Iranian Cinema #سینمای ایران

[nishant-vyas]

Death of Yazdgerd (1982)

By Bahram Beyzai.

#death of yazdgerd #bahram beyzai #iranian cinema #susan taslimi

[filmdiarymiradeboose]

Ragbar (Downpour), Bahram Beyzaie (1972)

#downpour #Bahram Beyzaie

[randomrichards]

DOWNPOUR:

A timid teacher

Learns to connect with village

John Hughes meets New Wave

#downpour #ragbar #random richards #poem #haiku #poetry #haiku poem #poets on tumblr #haiku poetry #haiku form #poetic #criterion collection #criterion channel #Bahram beyzaie #Parviz Fanizadeh #Mohamad Ali Keshavarz #Jamshid Layegh #Parvaneh Massoumi #iranian film #Youtube

[thirdrowcentre]

It's that time again. A few years ago I decided I would try and watch two films I'd never seen before each week. This year I've watched 374.

These are some of the ones that stood out.

JANUARY

The Leopard (dir. Luchino Visconti, 1963). Watched 1.1.23 at BFI Southbank

Benediction (dir. Terence Davies, 2021). Watched 11.1.23

Gangubai Kathiawadi (dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali, 2022). Watched 17.1.23

The Swimmer (dir. Frank Perry, 1968). Watched 30.1.23.

Comizi d’amore (dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964). Watched 31.1.23

FEBRUARY

Ugetsu Monogatari (dir. Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953). Watched 7.2.23

Wings (dir. Larisa Shepitko, 1966). Watched 22.2.23

Mirror (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975). Watched 24.2.23

MARCH

Born in Flames (dir. Lizzie Borden, 1983). Watched 2.3.23

Yi Yi (dir. Edward Yang, 2000). Watched 5.3.23

Taste of Cherry (dir. Abbas Kiarostami, 1997). Watched 6.3.23

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. (dir. Chantal Akerman, 1975). Watched 11.2.23 at BFI Southbank

Judex (dir. Georges Franju, 1963). Watched 12.3.23

Transit (dir. Christian Petzold, 2018). Watched 14.3.23

A Man Escaped (dir. Robert Bresson, 1956). Watched 19.3.23

Bellissima (dir. Luchino Visconti, 1951). Watched 31.3.23

APRIL

Army of Shadows (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969). Watched 2.4.23

Jacquot de Nantes (dir. Agnès Varda, 1991). Watched 10.4.23

Where is the friend’s house? (dir. Abbas Kiarostami, 1987). Watched 13.4.23

John Wick: Chapter 4 (dir. Chad Stahelski, 2023). Watched 16.4.23 at BFI IMAX

Charulata (dir. Satyajit Ray, 1964). Watched 27.4.23

Night and Fog (dir. Alain Resnais, 1956). Watched 28.4.23

MAY

Thirst (dir. Park Chan-wook, 2009). Watched 3.5.23

Return to Seoul (dir. Davy Chou, 2023). Watched 7.5.23 at Curzon Hoxton

The Eight Mountains (dir. Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch, 2023) Watched 12.5.23 at Curzon Hoxton

The Five Devils (dir. Léa Mysius, 2022). Watched 24.5.23

Nostalgia for the Light (dir. Patricio Guzmán, 2010). Watched 31.5.23

JUNE

Citadel (dir. John Smith, 2021). Watched 1.6.23

It’s Always Fair Weather (dir. Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, 1955). Watched 10.6.23 at BFI Southbank 35mm.

Service for Ladies (dir. Alexander Korda, 1932). Watched 11.6.23 at BFI Southbank 35mm *nitrate*

And Life Goes On (dir. Abbas Kiarostami, 1992). Watched 14.6.23

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy (dir. Pamela Green, 2018). Watched 19.6.23

King and Country (dir. Joseph Losey, 1964). Watched 20.6.23

JULY

London (dir. Patrick Keiller, 1994). Watched 3.7.23

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (dir. J. Lee Thompson, 1972). Watched 14.7.23

Barbie (dir. Greta Gerwig, 2023). Watched 21.7.23 at BFI Southbank

Oppenheimer (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2023). Watched 23.7.23 at BFI IMAX. 70mm IMAX

I’m Not There (dir. Todd Haynes, 2007). Watched 28.7.23

AUGUST

Three Blind Mice (dir. William A. Seiter, 1938). Watched 17.8.23

Corridor of Mirrors (dir. Terence Young, 1948). Watched 22.8.23

World of Apu (dir. Satyajit Ray, 1959). Watched 26.8.23

L’argent (dir. Robert Bresson, 1983). Watched 31.8.23

SEPTEMBER

Past Lives (dir. Celine Song, 2023). Watched 3.9.23 at Curzon Soho.

Austenland (dir. Jerusha Hess, 2013). Watched 8.9.23

Lady Vengeance (dir. Park Chan-wook, 2005). Watched 19.9.23

News from Home (dir. Chantal Akerman, 1977). Watched 20.9.23

Edge of Tomorrow (dir. Doug Liman, 2014). Watched 28.9.23

OCTOBER

Killers of the Flower Moon (dir. Martin Scorsese, 2023). Watched 8.1.23 at Royal Festival Hall. London Film Festival

Judgement at Nuremberg (dir. Stanley Kramer, 1961). Watched 12.10.23

The Stranger and the Fog (dir. Bahram Beyzai, 1974). Watched 14.10.23 at BFI Southbank. London Film Festival. 35mm

I am Not a Witch (dir. Rungano Nyoni, 2017). Watched 26.10.23

Contraband (dir. Michael Powell, 1940). Watched 30.10.23 at BFI Southbank

NOVEMBER

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010). Watched 9.11.23.

Anatomy of a Fall (dir. Justine Triet, 2023). Watched 15.11.23 at Curzon Hoxton

Citizens Band (dir. Jonathan Demme, 1977). Watched 21.11.23

DECEMBER

Oh, Rosalinda!! (dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1955). Watched 2.12.23 at BFI Southbank. 35mm

How to Have Sex (dir. Molly Manning Walker, 2023). Watched 10.12.23 at the Garden cinema.

Tish (dir. Paul Sng, 2023). Watched 22.12.23

Fallen Angels (dir. Wong Kar-wai, 1996). Watched 29.12.23

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Other highlights included: Stop Making Sense (twice!) on BFI IMAX. Tears of joy, dancing in my seat. Black Narcissus on nitrate at the BFI Southbank. Crying all the way through The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp at BFI Southbank. Showing someone L’Atalante and I Know Where I’m Going, two of my favourite films, in my favourite cinema (again, BFI Southbank). The terrible Fast X, in Vue Leicester Square with one of my best friends. Walking through Shoreditch on a Saturday night, maybe the most heterosexual place imaginable, to watch Bottoms at Curzon Aldgate. Talking and crying about Jonathan Demme at a house party with a stranger. Sitting and sobbing, breathless, after How to Have Sex - steeling myself and walking home thinking about my life, the lives of all the young women I know. Watching Aftersun for the second time at the beginning of the year with my youngest sister, floods of tears overtaking us both. Seven Samurai on the BFI IMAX with my best friends. The Hunger on 35mm at the Prince Charles Cinema, with more of my best friends. And screening Some Like it Hot on 16mm in the tiny theatre at the back of Ümit and Son in Clapton, surrounded by loving, beautiful people who make me who I am.

#new year #films #2023

[omophagias]

decided to do a thing i saw on letterboxd called “modular film festival” (original post here), putting the list up here b/c i’m very likely to lose the physical copy

self-imposed rule was it had to be something i either haven’t seen or literally can’t remember seeing. there’s no way i watch all of these in 30 days but i want to finish it by the end of the year.

✅ a winner of op’s moviebowl tournament -- metropolis (1927), fritz lang

✅ two movies thematically linked somehow -- theme: napoleonic era -- the duellists (1977), ridley scott

✅ see above -- the ashes (popioły) (1965), andrzej wajda

✅ a movie from eastern europe -- stalker (Сталкер) (1979), andrei tarkovsky

✅ a movie from the middle east -- death of yazdgerd (مرگ یزدگرد) (1982), bahram beyzai

✅ a movie from southeast asia -- a land imagined (幻土) (2018), yeo siew hua

✅ a movie from north africa -- wanderers of the desert (الهائمون) (1984), nacer khemir

✅ a movie from sub-saharan africa -- double-header: kwaku ananse (2013), akosua adoma owusu & touki bouki (1979), djibril diop mambéty

✅ a movie starring nicolas cage -- mandy (2018), panos cosmatos

✅ a kaiju movie -- shin godzilla (シン・ゴジラ) (2016), hideaki anno & shinji higuchi

✅ a movie based on a video game -- werewolves within (2021), josh ruben

✅ three movies by the same director i haven’t seen -- director: alfred hitchcock -- rebecca (1940)

✅ see above -- vertigo (1958)

✅ see above -- north by northwest (1959)

✅ a black and white horror movie -- the witch (häxan) (1922), benjamin christensen

✅ a non-english-language action movie -- samurai assassin (侍) (1965), kihachi okamoto

✅ a movie by an lgbtq+ director -- big eden (2000), thomas bezucha

✅ a movie by an indigenous director -- atanarjuat: the fast runner (ᐊᑕᓈᕐᔪᐊᑦ) (2001), zacharias kunuk

✅ a movie by a director neither white nor a man -- atlantics (atlantique) (2019), mati diop

✅ a movie from op’s list “the hundred” -- the third man (1949), carol reed

✅ a movie from roger ebert’s top 10 of my birth year -- maborosi (幻の光) (1997), hirokazu kore-eda

✅ two movies i have not seen whose directors were nominated at the 2022 cannes festival -- oldboy (올드보이) (2003), park chan-wook

✅ see above -- beau travail (1999), claire denis

a movie from the “hideo kojima canon” -- blade runner (1982), ridley scott

a movie that won best picture in the 1970s -- the french connection (1971), william friedkin

an animated movie not made in the usa or by studio ghibli -- azur et asmar (2006), michel ocelot

a movie 150 minutes or longer -- dwelling in the fuchun mountains (春江水暖) (2019), gu xiaogang

a movie 90 minutes or shorter -- another double-header -- ruddigore (1967), joy batchelor & nezha conquers the dragon king (哪吒闹海) (1979), wang shuchen, yang dingxian, & xu jingda

a niche documentary -- what counts as niche? -- cave of forgotten dreams (2010), werner herzog

a black and white non-english-language movie from before 1970 -- snow trail (銀嶺の果て) (1947), senkichi taniguchi

#.txt #.pers #once again i have become horrifically overfocused on a work night. in 2h30 i have to be out of the house

[umass-digiturgy]

“Arash” to “Aurash”, an evolution

Aurash the Legend

“Arash the Archer” (generally spelled without the “u”) is a famous Iranian legend, set in semi-mythical times over 2500 years ago. It tells of a powerful young warrior with a magical bow and arrow who heroically saves Iran from destruction from its enemies. The story is known all over Iran today as a point of national pride, and has been the subject of many retellings, including children’s books, cartoons, and novels.

Photo by Amin Karimi

Arash the Play

The great Iranian playwright, filmmaker, and scholar Bahram Beyzaie adapted the Arash legend into a play in 1957 – when he was 19 years old! His Arash is a lowly stableworker who has no magical powers. Caught between impossible demands, Arash attempts an act of heroism that brings about peace. The result is a more ambiguous, less nationalistic version: the story of an individual in crisis. Beyzaie’s play is a storytelling monologue for one performer. Reminiscent of the Persian oral form known as naqqali, Aras Beyzaie categorized his play as a “barkhani:” a memorized story.

Photo by Fakhradin Fakhraddini

Aurash the Translation/ Adaptation

In 1998, Iranian-Canadian director Soheil Parsa and Canadian dramaturg Brian Quirt translated Beyzaie’s play from Persian into English, making it the only existing English translation of the play. Their English version (the title transliterated as “Aurash,” not “Arash”) divides Beyzaie’s monologue among 4 Storytellers, who also play all the characters. At one point, all the Storytellers become Aurash. Parsa and Quirt also edited down Beyzaie’s text, taking out about 25% of the language. Their translation is the script that we are producing here at UMass.

Photo by Naire Bahjat

Aurash at Umass

Aurash was proposed by MFA director Behnam Alibakhshi in early 2022. The student-faculty Season Selection committee enthusiastically approved it for our season.

With the permission of Parsa and Quirt, we have expanded the number of actors from four to ten. Also, rather than have all the Storytellers become Aurash at his moment of crisis, we have decided to have a single, second actor become another version of Aurash, to emphasize the split he is experiencing, as his first self gives way to another.

Our production is one of the very few times that Aurash has ever been presented in English in the United States.

Photo by Michael Donnelly

[Dramaturgy by Harley Erdman]

#AURASH23

[dare-g]

Death of Yazdgerd (1982)

#death of yazdgerd #bahram beyzai #susan taslimi #mehdi hashemi #mahmoud behrouzian #amin tarokh #talks

[blacknidstang]

"و چگونه از زمینِ سرخ گیاهِ سبز بروید؟ پس هیچ گیاهِ سبز از زمینِ سرخ نرُست.

And how can green grass grow from the crimson earth? Thus, no green grass grew from the crimson earth."

Bahram Beyzai, Arash

#quotes #bahram beyzai #arash

[wherehavealltheflowerssgone]

Susan Taslimi, need I say more! 

#Bashu #Susan Taslimi #Bahram Beyzai #Iranian film

[west150]

Ragbar/ Bahram beyzaie / 1972

#tehran #iran #move #art #capture #film #persian #bahram beyzaie #Love