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	The Circle (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The film is composed of a series of stories that interconnect to describe various incidents in the lives of women, centering around a small group that was on leave from prison, and their attempt to negotiate modern Tehran in a single day.
		Throughout the film, other women's lives are interspersed to provide insights into the everyday challenges women face in Iran, where even walking alone in the street or smoking a cigarette in public is practically prohibited.
		The film begins in a maternity ward of a hospital, where the mother of Solmaz Gholami is upset to learn that her daughter has just given birth to a girl, even though the ultrasound indicated that the baby would be a boy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Circle_(film) (686 words)

	The Circle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article is about the peer to peer application; The Circle is also the title of a play by W.
		The Circle is a scalable decentralized peer to peer application....
		Circle does not try to provide anonymity, which allows it to be much more scalable than gnutella.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Circle (234 words)

	The Circle
		For this is a film that begins by showing one female character, but then, leaving her behind, jumps to another pair of female characters, then follows one of these, then jumps to another woman entirely, and then another, and then another.
		As the circle closes and the theme of the film becomes more firmly set, the camera settles into a fixed state; by then, we ourselves have interiorized the agitation and anxiety of its earlier incarnation.
		The viewer is indeed drawn into this film; the viewer becomes an imaginative participant even as he or she reserves the critical, objective faculty to analyze, and sing the praises of, some of the most remarkable camera motion in all of cinema—with the camera lighting on some of the most amazing mise-en-scène imaginable.
	www.dailyinsider.info /the_circle.htm (2553 words)

	Movies \| Almost perfect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The film won the Golden Lion at last year’s Venice Film Festival but has yet to be shown publicly on Iranian soil.
		The screen turns into the white of a door in a maternity ward that slides open to reveal the smiling face of a nurse informing a woman that her daughter has given birth to a beautiful girl.
		The Circle calls to mind the Italian neo-realists with its hardscrabble vérité tone, but on closer examination it draws on the melodramatic artifice of a Douglas Sirk.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/movies/documents/01545512.htm (1277 words)

	The Circle of Confusion
		In this case the base of this 3rd cone registers on the film as a circle of light rays which are not in register.
		This circle of unfocused light rays is a circle of confusion.
		The film interrupts the cone of light before it reaches its apex and registers as the circle of the cone's diameter where it was truncated.
	www.northnet.org /jimbullard/CoC.htm (735 words)

	Netribution > Features > Reviews > The Circle Jafar Panahi
		Set in a harshly sexist Islamic city, the film follows several women, all on the run from the law, for various reasons, from prostitution to jail breaking.
		The film is particularly poignant given the media attention being afforded to the Middle East and Islam in the light of recent tragedies.
		The film did seem diluted by the longer scenes and futile representation of the protagonists, but then, from the notes, this seems to have been the goal.
	www.netribution.co.uk /features/reviews/film/the_circle.html (473 words)

	Iran - Women - The Circle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Contrary to its name, the film opens on a rectangular portal and the battle lines are drawn right there and then: an angelic white figure announces the birth of a child.
		The film is lush with melancholic music, the hustle and bustle of the bazaars and handsome flirtatious boys whom the girls do not let pass unnoticed in spite of their troubles.
		Soon, the film leaves the two girls behind and shifts to yet another girl who flees the wrath of a violent brother and bursts out of her father's home onto the screen.
	www3.estart.com /iran/women/thecircle.html (714 words)

	OFFOFFOFF film review THE CIRCLE (Dayereh) Iranian movie by Jafar Panahi with Maryiam Palvin Almani, Nargess Mamizadeh, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Sure this film was a great eye opener to the treatment of women in Iran (or other Islamic countries) but for me it was the lack of music in this film just made it boring because it had no tension building.
		As "The Circle" opens, we're in an Iranian maternity ward at the moment of a not-so-blessed event — the birth of a child.
		Only the very last scene attempts to pull the entire sequence together — to bring it full circle, as it were — and it doesn't change the hasty treatment of each of the segments that came before.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2001/circle.php3 (598 words)

	Chicago Reader Movie Review
		The point at which The Circle really kicks in for me is when a teenage character named Nargess keeps trying and failing to board a bus that would take her back to her hometown.
		Calling The Circle apolitical is tantamount to insisting that pork is a vegetable, but considering all that Panahi has had to contend with for having made it, it's hard to fault him for saying such a thing; it's even likely that he believes it.
		One of the first things we see in the film is a woman berating a man on the street for having asked her and a friend if they were alone -- not exactly the behavior of a passive victim.
	www.chicagoreader.com /movies/archives/2001/0106/010608.html (3688 words)

	MovieMartyr.com - The Mirror / The Circle
		His two most recent films to receive American distribution, The Mirror and The Circle show that, despite his ambition, he is not the most consistently successful of the country’s auteurs.
		The film is the same sort of narratively minimalist, child-focused tale as the Iranian films Children of Heaven or Panahi’s debut The White Balloon, and for the first half of the picture, the focus seems to be on showing us the country and its people from a naïve perspective.
		The circle that the title refers to is the loop that casts imprisoned women in that country in an incessant battle with the law.
	www.moviemartyr.com /2001/circle.htm (780 words)

	Hybridmagazine.com \| June 2001 - The Circle
		THE CIRCLE is a film about women, women struggling alone in a society that offers no room for a woman outside of marriage and home.
		The film opens with only the sounds of a woman giving birth (thus establishing the importance of sound throughout) and as the image fades in a small window opens and a woman is told that her grandchild’s newborn is a girl and not the expected boy the ultrasound indicated.
		The film was hindered from the beginning by governmental objections to the script and also reportedly had several suspicious lab accidents.
	www.hybridmagazine.com /films/0601/circle.shtml (768 words)

	FILM REVIEW: The Circle
		The film is a thinly veiled attack on Islamic laws that treat women as second-class citizens in Iran.
		The Circle starts with a scene where a grandmother laments the birth of a new granddaughter (the doctor had said it would be a boy) before moving from the hospital lobby to down to the street.
		As the film progresses, other women are woven into the story, none of whom seem to have better lives.
	www.chartattack.com /damn/PrintThis.cfm?ID=2001031201 (426 words)

	A filmmaker feels the circle tighten / Iran's Panahi put in chains -- in U.S. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The film, which opened Friday in San Francisco and San Rafael, looks at the plight of Iranian women who are newly released from prison and live under a shroud of fear and hardship.
		When the film was completed, the censors wanted Panahi to cut the last 18 minutes, which features the arrests of the prostitute and a poor woman who abandons her 2-year-old girl.
		The film, which won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival and is scheduled to screen in more than 30 countries, was banned in Iran after Panahi refused to permit the changes.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2001/05/08/DD92691.DTL&type=printable (871 words)

	The Collegian Online: Circle Cinema's revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Circle Cinema, which has been open on and off since 1928, received a funding boost when the Westby foundation recently donat-ed the unused assets of the Westby Cinema to the Circle Cinema Foundation in order for Tulsa’s independent film scene to survive after the Westby closed down.
		Circle 3 is the corner room that connects to the gallery whose main feature is a big-screen TV.
		Circle Cinema, a ghostly presence in the Tulsa art scene is open again and the Circle Cinema Foundation is taking advantage of its new facilities already.
	www.utulsa.edu /collegian/article.asp?article=2269 (621 words)

	KDHX Film Review - The Circle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		His The Circle adds further proof of his creativity, resourcefulness, and determination to dramatize directly very powerful subject matter, that is, the position of women in Iran.
		The Circle begins with a girl's birth, to the alarm of the grandmother.
		In "The Circle" the moving camera captures the erratic flight and helter skelter pacing.
	www.kdhx.org /reviews/circle.html (337 words)

	Amazon.com: The Circle: DVD: Jafar Panahi,Nargess Mamizadeh,Maryiam Palvin Almani,Mojgan Faramarzi,Elham ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This Iranian film, is banned in Iran, consists of several intertwining stories of women, all living the sad realities of the circle of life that traps them again and again.
		In the case of Jafar Panahi's "The Circle" the political allusions are evident from the title, which serves as a metaphor for the narrative and for what Khatami's politics have so far meant to Iranians who had hoped for change, in other words their hopes have been invain.
		This is a harsh film made up of several fractured stories that eventually come all together in showing the life at the fringes of the Iranian society.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005RRJE?v=glance (2494 words)

	The Circle
		This extended scene of despair summarizes the film's theme of the harsh life for women, especially an ex-convict, in Iran.
		As the old woman leaves the hospital, she crosses paths with three younger women, dressed head to toe in the fl robes and the ever-ready chador required by Islamic law.
		But, it is a beautifully made film by the maker of the wonderful childhood story, "The White Balloon," showing Panahi's deft versatility as a world-class filmmaker.
	www.reelingreviews.com /thecircle.htm (1402 words)

	channel4.com/film - The Circle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Circle begins with a fl screen and the cries of a woman giving birth in a maternity ward.
		The film has a circular construction - where the beginning is the end, and the end is the beginning.
		A bleak but gripping examination of the plight of women in today's Iran, The Circle is a masterful fusion of form and content.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=102080 (407 words)

	The Case of Jafar Panahi - An Interview with the Iranian Director of The Circle
		The circle is both a metaphor for life as well as a form that the director has subscribed to as his most representative style.
		But the film is a far bolder work than most recent Iranian films; and one measure of its boldness is the fact that it is banned in Iran.
		The film works as a riveting, compelling testament about the lowly status of women in Iranian society, and about the subtle means with which Iran as a whole exercises its repression over the female sex.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/01/15/panahi_interview.html (4129 words)

	Dayereh (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		"Dayereh" is a film that is concerned with religion only as far as it is a film that takes place in Iran, a country where Islamic Law dominates or even rules over the secular law.
		All four or five women (one is not as thoroughly described) have committed unlawful acts, but their crimes are not explicitly stated in the dialogue of the film.
		Different interruptions and laws concerning females and cigarettes prevent the women to smoke until one of the last scenes, when a women is arrested for travelling alone in a car with a man to whom she is not married (prostitution?).
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0255094 (661 words)

	Film Review: The Circle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The women in Jafar Panahi's film are on the run.
		But the impression given is that women on their own in Iran are in danger of being harassed by police, interrogated and eventually locked up.
		She wanders the streets like a lost soul, destitute in spirit and circumstance, while Nayareh abandons her beautiful child and is picked up on suspicion of prostitution.
	www.iofilm.co.uk /fm/c/circle_2000.shtml (243 words)

	The Space Film Features: The Circle
		Panahi’s film,'The Circle', is critical of the treatment of women under this regime and has never been screened in Iran.
		But 'The Circle' is a much tougher film and, since America invaded Afghanistan, things have become very difficult in Iran for Panahi and other filmmakers whose films raise some difficult questions.
		One of them was right after the revolution and a lot of filmmakers had difficulties because they had made their film before the revolution, and after that the films had been banned.
	www.abc.net.au /arts/film/stories/s503541.htm (1266 words)

	Chico News and Review July 19, 2001
		The women are all characters in this prize-winning film from Iran who reflect the dilemmas of females in a society in which it is a crime for a woman to smoke in public or to travel anywhere unaccompanied by a male.
		Filmed largely in the streets and public buildings of Tehran, it makes brilliant use of tracking shots, long takes, and extended close-ups.
		A scene in which a woman walks alone at night and then accepts a ride from a passerby, for example, is done almost entirely in a single, long-running medium close-up, and the results are both haunting and unflinchingly honest.
	www.newsreview.com /chico/Content?oid=oid:5088 (405 words)

	village voice > film > The Circle; Chopper at Film Forum by J. Hoberman
		It seems to me, as a distant observer, that the ways in which politically sensitive Iranian movies are made must be as Byzantine as the processes that governed the production of critical Soviet bloc movies during the Cold War—involving all manner of patrons and connections and sometimes the mystifications of well-meaning foreign critics.
		Bringing the narrative full circle, from hospital nursery to prison cell, the new mother's name is repeated, somewhat enigmatically, in the last scene.
		Whatever its political significance, this is a dark, sustained, and wrenching film.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0115/hoberman.shtml (1299 words)

	DVDBeaver - The Circle Graphic Review by Gary W. Tooze
		It was filmed with many stylistic elements of a documentary including only two professional actresses in the cast.
		Also, Panahi mentions a theme of a "circle of repression" and throughout the film are a number of circle motifs in the environment that the major characters are interacting within (ex.
		The interview was conducted in September of 2000 at the screening of "The Circle" at the New York Film Festival.
	www.dvdbeaver.com /film/reviews/circle.htm (860 words)

	Journal of Religion & Film: Lovers of the Artic Circle Film Review by S. Brent Plate
		The "circle" instead hints at a sense of circular time and—depending on the perspective—of coincidence, destiny, or fate.
		Each character is played by three different actors as the film intertwines their relationship from childhood to adolescence to adulthood.
		In succession they are brought together and subsequently kept apart as the narrative of the film progresses through alternating perspectives on events through the eyes of Ana and then Otto, causing a good deal of shifting back and forth through chronological time.
	www.unomaha.edu /jrf/arctic2.htm (484 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "The Circle" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It's not surprising that "The Circle," Jafar Panahi's resonant, beautifully made picture, was banned in the director's native Iran.
		There's no complicated plot in "The Circle," or even much of a plot at all, but the picture is so dramatically textured that you feel something's happening every minute.
		The women in "The Circle" mostly wear conservative, simple scarves and tunics, but occasionally, when one of them needs to blend in or conform, she'll swirl a dark chador around her head and shoulders.
	archive.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2001/04/20/circle (1201 words)

	'The Circle'
		In "The Circle," Iranian women are not permitted on the streets unaccompanied by a man. Infant daughters are abandoned because they are not sons.
		Everything from failing to wear her veil and traveling without her "exit pass" to smoking a cigarette in public is potential cause for an arrest on prostitution charges.
		Both the narrative and the unfolding of it are slow and, properly enough, circular: Two of the women have been given temporary leave from a prison and have gone on the lam.
	www.post-gazette.com /movies/20010616circle0616fnp5.asp (379 words)

	An interview with Jafar Panahi, director of The Circle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		But now that the film is being shown, now that the baby is born, I'm enjoying it, and I don't really want to talk about that.
		I hope that if this film has any kind of effect on anyone, it would be to make them try to expand the size of the radius.
		The purpose of this film was not to be against men or to be a feminist film—it's a film about humanity.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/oct2000/pan-o02.shtml (1250 words)

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