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	Film Listings Archive: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Abbas Kiarostami are the two major directors to emerge from the post-revolutionary Iranian cinema, and such is the measure of their talents that it is fair to say that both currently stand "at the frontline of world cinema" (Vancouver International Film Festival).
		As a teenager, Makhmalbaf had been a member of a militant anti-Shah group, and at 17 was arrested and imprisoned for an incident in which a policeman was stabbed.
		Makhmalbaf then proceeded to film (in gorgeous 35mm) the "auditions" of dozens of these hopefuls, many of whom are convinced that they bear an uncanny resemblance to Paul Newman or Marilyn Monroe, or that their obvious abundance of talent will soon have them jetting off to Cannes.
	www.cinematheque.bc.ca /archives/makh.html (3173 words)

	Collective Chaos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mohsen Makhmalbaf gives an advertisement in newspapers to find those interested in acting in a movie to be made on the occasion of the hundredth year of the birth of Cinema.
		Mohsen Makhmalbaf became a writer and filmmaker of the post-revolutionary Iran.
		Mohsen Makhmalbaf has also been the subject of many films and books that were made about him and his life.
	www.collectivechaos.org /ff/salamcinema.html (532 words)

	Mohsen Makhmalbaf: Retrospective
		The scene they are recreating, as it occured in the past, should go as such: the young Mohsen, with his knife hidden under a loaf of bread, trails behind his cousin, who stops to ask the officer for the time.
		The officer-turned actor poses behavioral problems throughout the film for director Mohsen with his tempermental threats to leave the film, first over the selection of which actor to play his younger self and later after he comes to the shocking realization that the girl he loved for twenty years was an accomplice to his stabbing.
		Makhmalbaf prepares to rehearse the scene, but his young actor breaks out in tears and is unable to go through with the violent event, even if it is fairy tale.
	www.horschamp.qc.ca /9709/offscreen_reviews/makhmalbaf.html (2084 words)

	FIPRESCI - News - Mohsen Makhmalbaf
		Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the renowned Iranian filmmaker, informs that his project "Amnesia" had not been approved by the Iranian authorities.
		"Amnesia", the script written by Mohsen Makhmalbaf and submitted to the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance in early 2004 was officially refused permit to be made into a motion picture by the said Ministry on Tuesday may 4, 2004.
		The idea of the script reflecting two decades of pain and sufferings of the Iranian people and artists is among the subjects that took Mohsen Makhmalbaf years to write and it was finally completed last fall when he was admitted to Mehr Hospital in Tehran due to heart problems.
	www.fipresci.org /news/archive/archive_2004/mmakhmalbaf.htm (272 words)

	Mohsen Makhmalbaf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mohsen Makhmalbaf (in Persian:محسن مخملباف; born May 29, 1957) is a film director and writer from Iran (Persia), whose films during the last ten years were presented in international film festivals more than 1,000 times.
		His younger daughter Hana Makhmalbaf has also made her first film Joy of Madness 2003.
		Makhmalbaf also founded a non-governmental organization for enabling Afghan children to go to school in Iran; by means of changes in Iranian laws due to his campaigns, he succeeded in sending tens of thousands of Afghan children to schools in Iran.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mohsen_Makhmalbaf (503 words)

	Iranian Cinema: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
		ohsen Makhmalbaf was born in a poor neighborhood in southern Tehran in 1957.
		Makhmalbaf became a controversial figure when the two films he made in 1991, A Time of Love and The Nights of the Zayandeh-Rood, were banned for dealing with physical love and raising doubts about the revolution.
		Gabbeh, a captivatingly lyrical saga of a woman and her romantic longing in a nomadic setting, was released domestically only after its successful festival run and a string of European openings, but A Moment of Innocence, a thought-provoking essay about the nature of truth, remained shelved for two additional years.
	www.iranchamber.com /cinema/mmakhmalbaf/mohsen_makhmalbaf.php (625 words)

	Iranian Cinema
		Mohsen Makhmalbaf is the L'Enfant Sauvage of the Iranian cinema.
		Makhmalbaf was born in a poor neighborhood in southern Tehran in 1957.
		Makhmalbaf became a controversial figure when the two films he made in 1991, A Time of Love and The Nights of the Zayandeh-Rude, were banned for dealing with physical love and raising doubts about the revolution.
	groups.msn.com /IranianCinema/yourwebpage9.msnw (894 words)

	Samira Makhmalbaf - Wikipedia
		Samira Makhmalbaf (persisch: سمیرا مخملباف [sæmiːˈrɔː mæxmælˈbɔːf]; * 15.
		Sie ist eine Tochter des iranischen Autorenfilmers Mohsen Makhmalbaf.
		Mit 17 Jahren arbeitete sie als Regieassistentin bei ihrem Vater Mohsen Makhmalbaf, dessen Film "Die Stille" 1997 erschien.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samira_Makhmalbaf (257 words)

	The Films of Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Makhmalbaf was born in Tehran in 1957, and Golmakani shows him visiting his old home where Makhmalbaf relates the story of his youth.
		Makhmalbaf became such a stern fundamentalist that due to the religious intolerance of music at the time, he would cover his ears when passing music stores.
		Makhmalbaf also over-indulges in surrealism, but he does manage many memorable scenes – an opening landscape shot worthy of Andrei Tarkovsky, a slow-motion storm of leaves, a cow and a man half-buried in film stock, a montage of movie embraces, and a spoof of his own film, The Cyclist.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies2/MohsenMakhmalbaf.htm (1149 words)

	Iranian Director & Actor Database
		Makhmalbaf's breakthrough film is a made of three short tales set among the poor of Tehran in a shockingly forthright film by Mohsen Makhmalbaf.
		Makhmalbaf tries to recreate his assault against a policeman during the time of the Shah.
		Mohsen Makhmalbaf's visually sophisticated film which deals with the themes of man's exploitation of man and the inequities between rich and poor.
	www.salamcinema.com /mohsenmakhmalbaf.htm (216 words)

	Persian Art Exhibits and Entertainment Events-Houston, Texas
		Mohsen Makhmalbaf, growing up in an impoverished section of Tehran in the early 1960s, he left school to support his family and became a political revolutionary.
		Makhmalbaf's previous struggles with censorship is reflected in the story's conflict between authority and artistic freedom.
		Makhmalbaf explains that the first story depicts the birth of man and his emergence upon the scene of existence, the second episode covers man's journey through life, and the third tolls the knell of his departure from the world.In the first tale, a couple attempts to have their daughter adopted to ease their poverty.
	www.farsinet.com /artent/houston.html (1065 words)

	Auckland Film Society A Moment of Innocence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mohsen Makhmalbaf's follow-up to the internationally acclaimed Gabbeh finds the Iranian director delving deeper into a self-reflexive mode of filmmaking that explores the knotty relationship between art and truth and truth and reality through the recreation of a violent episode from his own past.
		Makhmalbaf decided to use this strange twist of fate as the basis for a film in which he attempts to make a film about the stabbing; Tayebi will also play himself.
		One of the best features by the prolific and unpredictable Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, this 1996 film… [is] a reconstruction of a pivotal incident during his teens that landed him in prison for several years during the shah's regime.
	www.aucklandfilmsociety.org.nz /movies/moment.html (361 words)

	Movies Unlimited: Browse By Categories
		Inspired by a personal experience of director Mohsen Makhmalbaf's, this wrenching drama features Majid Majidi as a man in pre-revolutionary Iran who is condemned to death by the Savak for his political beliefs.
		Mohsen Makhmalbaf's tale of post-war strife stars Mahmud Bigham as a veteran of the Iran-Iraq War who becomes depressed with the state of his life and Tehran after returning home.
		Makhmalbaf speaks candidly about his time in jail, his former political affiliations, art, violence, religion and many other topics which will enlighten viewers on his amazing persona.
	www.moviesunlimited.com /musite/browse_subcode.asp?mscssid=NS1GELE8LQ4B9P3GMGXSPKP60CR34R49&sRow=1&sDistinct=MOHSEN+MAKHMALBAF+++++++++++++&sCat=IRAN++++++++++++++++++++++++++&Section=fo (620 words)

	Makhmalbaf File
		It soon becomes clear, however, that Makhmalbaf is playing with the audience and its memories of this period, just as he's playing rather cruelly with the 3,000 eager souls who've assembled on this day--all, it turns out, in response to a newspaper notice announcing an audition for actors to appear in a movie by...
		Makhmalbaf calls Salaam Cinema a tribute to the centenary of the movies, though in fact it takes more startling shape as a sophisticated gloss on the nature of performance, a barbed attack on the abuses that come with absolute power, and a wryly metaphysical meditation on the relationship between the one and the many.
		Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Abbas Kiarostami are the two major directors to emerge from the post-revolutionary Iranian cinema, and such is the measure of their talents that it is fair to say that both currently stand "at the frontline of world cinema" (Vancouver International Film Festival).
	www.farhangsara.com /makhmalbaf_file.htm (11607 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Culture \| Circumventing confrontation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mohsen Makhmalbaf is, with Abbas Kiarostami, one of the most important film directors to have emerged in Iran: indeed, the duo can be credited with bringing Iranian cinema to international attention.
		Although Makhmalbaf's direct involvement in politics had come to an end it was unlikely that such a rebellious spirit could long avoid the confrontational.
		Makhmalbaf's most recent film Kandahar, which premiered in the official competition at Cannes last year, was well-received by critics and went on to win both the Grand Prize of the International Society of Churches and the Audience Prize at the Cinema of the South Festival.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2002/576/cu1.htm (1145 words)

	village voice > film > Kandahar Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Covert Operations by Lisa Katzman
		Mohsen Makhmalbaf's feature recounts the return of Nafas, an Afghan-born, Canadian-raised journalist, to her homeland to save her maimed sister from committing suicide.
		Makhmalbaf sees the war from the longer view of the ongoing tragedy that has crippled Afghanistan in the past 25 years.
		Makhmalbaf clarifies that Afghanistan's ubiquitous land mines are not all left over from the Russian occupation—they continue to be planted by antagonistic tribes.
	www.villagevoice.com /film/0150,katzman,30638,20.html (551 words)

	Gabbeh and A Moment of Innocence: two films directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
		Mohsen Makhmalbaf was born in 1957 in a poor neighborhood in Tehran.
		When Makhmalbaf goes to his cousin's house to seek her permission to have her teenage daughter play in his film he runs into a stone wall.
		Makhmalbaf's insistence on the relativity of truth and memory has a quite distinct significance in Iran, one which is obviously not lost on the authorities.
	wsws.org /arts/1996/sep1996/iran-s96.shtml (3415 words)

	Sofia International Film Festival
		Ultimately, his youth allowed him to escape the fate of a firing squad, and after serving only five years of his sentence he was freed in the wake of the country's 1979 Islamic revolution.
		After his release Makhmalbaf helped establish an artists' group known as the Center for the Propagation of Islamic Thought, and he became a prolific writer of plays, essays, short stories, and finally screenplays.
		Makhmalbaf was also the subject of several documentaries, among them Abbas Kiarostami's "Close-Up".
	www.cinema.bg /sff/2002/eng/movies/kandahar.php (492 words)

	Pictures at an Exhibition
		Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s compelling portrait of contemporary filmmaking, made on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the cinema, began with an advertisement he placed in a Tehran paper to audition one hundred actors and actresses for a new film.
		Makhmalbaf nonetheless manages to conduct a series of auditions, in which the would-be Iranian actors—intellectuals, students, young boys, and even women—reflect on their lives and on the importance of cinema in the culture.
		Makhmalbaf himself emerges as the grand provocateur of this collective meditation on the power of cinematic images.
	www.harvardfilmarchive.org /calendars/01janfeb/pictures.htm (166 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| Iranian director turns lens on India
		Mohsen Makhmalbaf and actress Niloufar Pazira at Cannes
		Mohsen Makhmalbaf, one of Iran's most celebrated directors, will shoot his next film in the heat and dust of India.
		Makhmalbaf is currently shooting a film in Tajikistan, the location of one of his earlier features, The Silence (1998), about a 10-year-old blind boy who supports his impoverished mother by tuning musical instruments.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/3763074.stm (686 words)

	Chicago Reader Movie Review
		Judging from a text by Makhmalbaf recently published in English that appears to be semiautobiographical, he fully expected to be killed during the early stages of his incarceration.
		It was made around the time that Makhmalbaf's first wife burned to death in a domestic accident, and there may be some bitter echoes of his marriage in the grotesque, strident quarrels in this film between a movie actor and his infertile wife--which might account in part for Makhmalbaf's recent antipathy toward the film.
		Here Makhmalbaf's role as provocateur is only incidentally aimed at the audience; it's mainly directed at the hapless applicants, whom he mercilessly bullies, taunts, and plays with--all but parodying some of the psychological tortures he underwent as a youth and depicted in Boycott.
	www.chireader.com /movies/archives/0497/04117.html (2109 words)

	Mohsen Makhmalbaf -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		For his productive instructing method, The (Click link for more info and facts about University of Boston) University of Boston in the (The army of the United States of America; organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare) USA gave him its Special Prize in the year 2000.
		Makhmalbaf also founded a non-governmental organization for enabling Afgan children to go to school in Iran and by means of changes in Iranian laws because of his campaigns, he succeeded to send 10,000-s of immigrated Afghan children, to schools in Iran.
		Now he with his family lives in (The capital and largest city of Afghanistan; located in eastern Afghanistan) Kabul, the capital city of (A mountainous landlocked country in central Asia; bordered by Iran to the west and Russia to the north and Pakistan to the east and south) Afghanistan.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mo/mohsen_makhmalbaf.htm (642 words)

	Combustible Celluloid film review - A Moment of Innocence (1996), Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Mirhadi Tayebi, Ali Bakhsi, dvd ...
		Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf's A Moment of Innocence (1996) is being released in tandem with his The Silence (1998), but for the sake of clarity, I'll review them separately.
		When Makhmalbaf was 17 years old, he was a revolutionary fighting against the Shah and, with the help of his girlfriend, he stabbed a cop and went to prison for it.
		Makhmalbaf is more stylish, inventing potent and colorful images to fill his frame, but keeping his characters simple and universal.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /momentof.shtml (648 words)

	Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Salaam Cinema: "Cinema is for everyone"
		Mohsen Makhmalbaf, director of Salaam Cinema, is one of Iran's leading filmmakers.
		Makhmalbaf planned to make a film as part of a tribute to the one hundredth anniversary of cinema.
		But Makhmalbaf explains at one point, "If cinema reflects social life, then it is for everyone." This is literally true.
	www.wsws.org /arts/1995/sep1995/makh-s95.shtml (516 words)

	:: MAKHMALBAF FILM HOUSE :: Persons Section :: Mohsen
		Many of Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s works among them his films and writings have been censored and neglected in Iran and....
		Marriage of The Blessed (By Mohsen Makhmalbaf) 1988.
		Mohsen Makhmalbaf: Selected as the best filmmaker after the revolution by readers of cinema publications, 1988.
	www.makhmalbaf.com /persons.php?p=2 (1260 words)

	The House that Mohsen Built: The Films of Samira Makhmalbaf and Marzieh Meshkini
		The Makhmalbaf Film School was established in 1996 by post-revolutionary Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf as a way of sharing his substantial knowledge and experience in film.
		As several critics such as Robin Wood have pointed out, Mohsen Makhmalbaf's career is very difficult to summarise due to its periodic shifts in tone, approach, social and even political orientation, from fundamentalism to humanism, self-consciousness to allegory.
		Mohsen Makhmalbaf has often stated that reading about films is more important than watching them, an approach to cinema education forged by necessity, one assumes.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/02/22/makhmalbaf.html (3786 words)

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