25 January, 2011

Color of Paradise (1999)

AKA:
Rang-e-Khoda >> Persian
God's Color >> English

Starring:
Hossein Mahjoub - Father
Mohsen Ramezani - Mohammad
Salameh Feyzi - Grandma
Farahnaz Safari - Big Sister
Elham Sharifi - Little Sister
Behzad Rafi - Village Teacher
Mohamad Rahmani - Schoolteacher
Morteza Fatemi - Carpenter
Kamal Mirkarimi - Schoolmaster
Masoome Zinati - Young woman
Zahra Mizani - Schoolteacher
Ahmed Aminian - Young Wife's Father
Moghadam Behboodi - Village Headmaster
GanAli Khorami - Villager

Children Of Heaven (1997)

AKA:
Bacheha Ye aseman

Synopsis:
Children of Heaven (Persian: بچه‌های آسمان) is a 1997 Iranian film by Majid Majidi. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1998. It deals with a brother and sister and their adventures over a lost pair of shoes.

Children of Heaven premiered in February 1997 at the Teheran Fajr Film Festival and was awarded several national film awards. It opened in the US on 22 January 1999, with a total US box office total of $930,000.

Critical response to the film was very positive. Some critics compared it to Vittorio de Sica's 1948 Bicycle Thieves. The few negative voices found fault in a too-simplistic storyline and unanswered questions. Roger Ebert's review in the Chicago Sun-Times called it "very nearly a perfect movie for children" that "lacks the cynicism and smart-mouth attitudes of so much American entertainment for kids and glows with a kind of good-hearted purity".[1]

In 1998, it became the first Iranian film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, losing to the Italian film Life Is Beautiful by Roberto Benigni. After the film had become well-known worldwide due to the Oscar nomination, it was shown in several European, South American, and Asian countries between 1999 and 2001. It was successfully shown in numerous film festivals and won awards at the Fajr Film Festival, the World Film Festival, the Newport International Film Festival, the Warsaw International Film Festival, and the Singapore International Film Festival. It was nominated for the Jury's Grand Prize at the American Film Institute's festival.

Starring:
Mohammad Amir Naji - Ali's Father
Amir Farrokh Hashemian - Ali
Bahare Seddiqi - Zahra
Nafise Jafar-Mohammadi - Roya
Fereshte Sarabandi - Ali's Mother
Kamal Mirkarimi - Assistant
Behzad Rafi - Trainer
Dariush Mokhtari - Ali's Teacher
Mohammad-Hasan Hosseinian - Roya's Father
Masume Dair - Roya's Mother
Kambiz Peykarnegar - Race Organizer
Hasan Roohparvari - Race Photographer
Abbas-Ali Roomandi - Shoemaker
Jafar Seyfollahi - Green Grocer
Qolamreza Maleki - Salt Seller

Director: Majid Majidi

20 January, 2011

The Godfather: Part III (1990)

AKA:
Il Padrino-III >> Italian
Der Pate-III >> German

Starring:
Al Pacino - Don Michael Corleone
Diane Keaton - Kay Adams Michelson
Talia Shire - Connie Corleone Rizzi
Andy Garcia - Vincent Mancini
Eli Wallach - Don Altobello
Joe Mantegna - Joey Zasa
George Hamilton - B.J. Harrison
Bridget Fonda - Grace Hamilton
Sofia Coppola - Mary Corleone
Raf Vallone - Cardinal Lamberto
Franc D'Ambrosio - Anthony Vito Corleone
Donal Donnelly - Archbishop Gilday
Richard Bright - Al Neri
Helmut Berger - Frederick Keinszig
Don Novello - Dominic Abbandando

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

The Godfather: Part II (1974)

AKA:
Il Padrino-II >> Italian
Der Pate-II >> German

Starring:
Al Pacino - Don Michael Corleone
Robert Duvall - Tom Hagen
Diane Keaton - Kay Corleone
Robert De Niro - Vito Corleone
John Cazale - Fredo Corleone
Talia Shire - Connie Corleone
Lee Strasberg - Hyman Roth
Michael V. Gazzo - Frankie Pentangeli
G.D. Spradlin - Senator Pat Geary
Richard Bright - Al Neri
Gastone Moschin - Don Fanucci
Tom Rosqui - Rocco Lampone
Bruno Kirby - Young Peter Clemenza
Frank Sivero - Genco Abbandando

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

The Godfather (1972)


AKA:
Il Padrino-I >> Italian
Der Pate-I >> German

Starring:

Marlon Brando - Don Vito Corleone
Al Pacino - Michael Corleone
James Caan - Sonny Corleone
John Cazale - Fredo Corleone
Robert Duvall - Tom Hagen
Diane Keaton - Kay Adams
Sterling Hayden - McCluskey
Richard Conte - Barzini
Talia Shire - Connie Corleone
Al Lettieri - Sollozzo
Al Martino - Johnny Fontane
Lenny Montana - Luca Brasi
Corrado Gaipa - Don Tommasino
Julie Gregg - Sandra Corleone
Morgana King - Mama Corleone

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

09 January, 2011

Udaan (2010)

Starring:
Rajat Barmecha - Rohan Singh
Ronit Roy - Bhairav Singh
Ram Kapoor - Jimmy Singh
Aayan Boradia - Arjun Singh
Anand Tiwari - Appu
Manjot Singh - Maninder Singh

Director : Vikramaditya Motwane

01 January, 2011

BBC - Sajha Sawal Eps. ... ()


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Broadcasted on 8 October in USA.