A central scene in Apostasy, the powerful debut from British director Daniel Kokotajlo, has a group of kids stage a re-enactment of King Solomon’s judgment, the parable from the Book of Kings. In the story, the king concocts a plan to settle who is the true mother of young boy. He says he’ll cut the child in two, dividing it among the two women. The true mother, of course, is declared after she says she’ll give up the baby. The king knows this because no mother would kill her child.
The story echoes disturbingly through this compelling drama, set in a close-knit family of Jehovah’s Witnesses. The clan’s beliefs mean they refuse hospital treatment (as seen in another fall festival picture, The Children Act), and the mother here places her trust in religion that could compromise her daughter’s life. The conflict at the heart...
The story echoes disturbingly through this compelling drama, set in a close-knit family of Jehovah’s Witnesses. The clan’s beliefs mean they refuse hospital treatment (as seen in another fall festival picture, The Children Act), and the mother here places her trust in religion that could compromise her daughter’s life. The conflict at the heart...
- 10/16/2017
- by Ed Frankl
- The Film Stage
Rosta and Sohrab, Bijan and Manijeh, Zahak and KavehA scene from the Shahnameh — Quantuck Lane PressDirectly quoted from Wall Street Journal by Farnaz FassihiLong before HBO’s wildly popular “Game of Thrones” was created, Iranians turned to the national literary epic “Shahnameh” (“The Book of Kings”) for intriguing tales of knights, nobility and mystical creatures scattered across Seven Kingdoms controlled by a greater king.
Now fans of “Game of Thrones”, English readers and second generation Iranian-Americans can get a taste of these epic tales in a gorgeously illustrated new book called: Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings, published this month by Quantuck Lane Press.
The book was the brainchild of Iranian-American filmmaker and graphic designer Hamid Rahmanian and his American wife editorial director Melissa Hibbard. The Brooklyn-based team wanted to create an art project that transcended the political stereotypes associated with Iran these days.
“Everything about Iran is always politicized.
Now fans of “Game of Thrones”, English readers and second generation Iranian-Americans can get a taste of these epic tales in a gorgeously illustrated new book called: Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings, published this month by Quantuck Lane Press.
The book was the brainchild of Iranian-American filmmaker and graphic designer Hamid Rahmanian and his American wife editorial director Melissa Hibbard. The Brooklyn-based team wanted to create an art project that transcended the political stereotypes associated with Iran these days.
“Everything about Iran is always politicized.
- 5/30/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Iran’s Soureh Pictures Company has launched sales on powerful documentary A157, which follows three Kurdish girls who fell pregnant after been raped by members of extremist group Islamic State (Isis).
It is the latest film by Behrouz Nouranipour, whose past works include God Doesn’t Make A Mistake [pictured], about a family coming to terms with the tragic death of its camel-driver patriarch, and A Crime In Silence, capturing the long-term impact of chemical weapons attacks on people in a village on the Iran-Iraq border.
The title A157 refers to the number of the girls’ tent in a refugee camp on the Turkish border with Syria.
“It’s a beautiful film capturing the tragic story of three young women who were raped by Daesh fighters,” said Maryam Naghibi, head of international sales at Soureh. “We sent the film to Berlin and are awaiting a response.”
One of Iran’s biggest producers and distributors, Soureh is attending...
It is the latest film by Behrouz Nouranipour, whose past works include God Doesn’t Make A Mistake [pictured], about a family coming to terms with the tragic death of its camel-driver patriarch, and A Crime In Silence, capturing the long-term impact of chemical weapons attacks on people in a village on the Iran-Iraq border.
The title A157 refers to the number of the girls’ tent in a refugee camp on the Turkish border with Syria.
“It’s a beautiful film capturing the tragic story of three young women who were raped by Daesh fighters,” said Maryam Naghibi, head of international sales at Soureh. “We sent the film to Berlin and are awaiting a response.”
One of Iran’s biggest producers and distributors, Soureh is attending...
- 12/14/2015
- ScreenDaily
Washington, Dec 25: Visions of angels depicted in Bible may have been 'the products of spontaneous lucid dreams', researchers say.
In a sleep study by the Out-Of-Body Experience Research Center in Los Angeles, 30 volunteers were instructed to perform a series of mental steps upon waking up or becoming lucid during the night that might lead them to have out-of-body experiences culminating in perceived encounters with an angel.
According to the researchers, half of them succeeded.
Specifically, the volunteers were told to try to re-create the story of Elijah, a prophet who is referenced in the Talmud, the Bible and the Quran. In one of the stories in the Bible's Book of Kings, Elijah flees to the wilderness and falls.
In a sleep study by the Out-Of-Body Experience Research Center in Los Angeles, 30 volunteers were instructed to perform a series of mental steps upon waking up or becoming lucid during the night that might lead them to have out-of-body experiences culminating in perceived encounters with an angel.
According to the researchers, half of them succeeded.
Specifically, the volunteers were told to try to re-create the story of Elijah, a prophet who is referenced in the Talmud, the Bible and the Quran. In one of the stories in the Bible's Book of Kings, Elijah flees to the wilderness and falls.
- 12/25/2011
- by Leon David
- RealBollywood.com
Jordan Mechner's Prince of Persia has been an acclaimed video game and he is one of the fortunate creators to be intimately involved in the adaptation from game to feature film. Mechner managed to write the screen adaptation, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Gemma Arterton. The Disney feature was released to middling reviews and so-so box office in May and comes to home video tomorrow. Disney provided us with this conversation.
Question: What were your feelings when you finally saw the film?
Jordan Mechner: Firstly, the original Prince of Persia was a character 40 pixels high on the Apple II screen, running and jumping. The technology at the time was quite primitive, I think in my mind I imagined a much grander spectacle, and to see Jake [Gyllenhaal] in the best shape of his life running around the rooftops of Morocco and doing parkour and all this stuff was more than I could imagine.
Question: What were your feelings when you finally saw the film?
Jordan Mechner: Firstly, the original Prince of Persia was a character 40 pixels high on the Apple II screen, running and jumping. The technology at the time was quite primitive, I think in my mind I imagined a much grander spectacle, and to see Jake [Gyllenhaal] in the best shape of his life running around the rooftops of Morocco and doing parkour and all this stuff was more than I could imagine.
- 9/10/2010
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to be invited to interview all the main cast of the new Disney / Jerry Bruckheimer movie, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. We also got to interview Mike Newell, the Director and Jordan Mechner who invented the original computer game back in 1989 on the Apple 2 computer.
Over the next 5 days, we’ll be bringing you the interviews with Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, and Sir Ben Kingsley but to start us off, let’s find out where the game came from and how it was turned into a movie by it’s creator, Jordan Mechner.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is released in UK cinemas this Friday, 21st May and you can check out my review here.
Many games have converted badly to the big screen in the past. What made you think Prince of Persia would work on the big screen?...
Over the next 5 days, we’ll be bringing you the interviews with Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, and Sir Ben Kingsley but to start us off, let’s find out where the game came from and how it was turned into a movie by it’s creator, Jordan Mechner.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is released in UK cinemas this Friday, 21st May and you can check out my review here.
Many games have converted badly to the big screen in the past. What made you think Prince of Persia would work on the big screen?...
- 5/17/2010
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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