Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Iran is today's one great national cinema. Not since the Czech New Wave of the mid-'60s has a country made such a lovely noise at the big festivals and in Western capitals where the term foreign film doesn't evoke a yawn. Directors Abbas Kiarostami (A Taste of Cherry), Jafar Panahi (The White Balloon) and Samira's father Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Gabbeh) are as revered in the world film community as they are anonymous at American 'plexes...
Spend the evening in East Asia with a selection of Taiwanese cinema. The Film Archive shows Lee's "Professor Chu's Homework" (1992) at 3 p.m. and Tung's "Every Odd Numbered Day" (1995) at 8 p.m. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy...
Ireland's latest cinematic export, "Waking Ned Devine," tells the story of how aging Irish villagers react to a winning lottery ticket. The catch? The golden ticket belongs to the recently deceased Ned Devine. Think Weekend at Bernie's with geriatric Gaelics. Kendall Square Cinema, 1 Kendall Square. 494-9800. Call for showtime...
After helping ourselves to some coffee, we moved into a white-walled gallery-turned-cinema to take a peek at the current attraction, a series of centrally-themed shorts entitled Bob White Plays with Dolls. While it involves many different flavors of film, the experience focuses on computer generated characters interacting violently and carnally. A few bonus film clips are sprinkled throughout, including that Nissan commercial where G.I. Joe gets Barbie because of his cool car and a scene from Evil Dead...
...this case, the studio's agenda and the government's agenda met." Kanjanavanit, who can no longer speak about The Beach situation without crying, says families and friends on the neighboring island Phi Phi Don have split over the controversy. She's right about that. "Many people no like cinema; some like cinema," says an elderly woman running a trinket stand on Phi Phi Don. "I like cinema; I like Century Fox. But tore-up beach is no good." A nearby friend turns away and twirls her finger around her ear--the universal sign language for "she's nuts." Says...