Cultural monthly magazine
Snowmen
Vol 5 - JUly 2008
Reza (Editor)
It's just brief
Editorial
The 5th editorial of Adambarfiha is mostly about our website difficulties and issues rather than social and cultural issues.
In a part of preface you can find: Intellectuals criticising us for not writing political issues and younger audience (teenagers) asking us to write about cinema superstars.
Part of this edition’s preface articles is about a taxi driver who was playing at the background crowd of famous Iranian film “Gavaznha” and we got to know him by accident. He wished to be in front of camera once again.
Dossier: Zoom back
“Deep Breath” is the topic of our special case study in nostalgic type movies which was produced seven years ago. This edition includes a few articles and one interview with Parviz Shahbazi it's director. Part of P.Shahbazi’s interview is as below: “Deep breath brought me respect as a movie maker …I learnt to be brief and to cut long stories short from US writers such as Hemmingway”.
Human biggest fear is that he will die one day. Deep Breath gave us a good excuse to write one of our critics (in this edition) around Nihilism and Anarchism in Iranian cinema.
Nostalgia
In news it was mentioned that Paul Newman had lung cancer. In this section we remembered and briefly flashed back to his memorable artworks. He is one of the most famous Hollywood actors between Iranian people, especially in “Cat on a hot tin roof”, “The sting”, “Butch Cassidy and the sundance kid”, and “Cool hand Luke” movies.
Birthday note
An unfinished and unsigned letter to Jafar Panahi for his birthday anniversary: “ after congratulation ...Why do you think you have a right to make film? You show social issues in your movies and it is not good at all! Art should not mention social problems and defects. You deserve to be unemployed, stay home and play playstation X box …”
Exclusive
“Café Piano” is one of the most sold edition novels in Iran this year. Farhad Jafari (Writer of the book) analysed his book in a note in this edition.
“Café Piano is an average artwork from all aspects” is the title of this note.
Documentary
Ahmad Mir Ehsan wrote a critic on “Cyanosis” documentary made by Roxareh(Rokhsareh) Ghaem-maghami. Cyanosis is about a psycho and outstanding painter who paints in one of Tehran’s main square
Sociology
Research in Pier Bordio’s ideas on social levels is the topic of this section
World Cinema
The last film of Coen brothers has been analyzed from post modernism viewpoint in this edition. This note is based on Zhimel’s sociology theory and money.
Iranian Cinema
One of famous Iranian film critics(Mostafa Jalali Fakhr) has written some notes about two Iranian movie maker’s insult to film critics (Sirous Alvand and Majid Majidi). Sirous Alvand believes those who criticises his movies, wanted to be his assistant before but due to his (Sirous) disagreement, they are trying to revenge! M.Majidi said to his critics to forget film making ambition. Majidi was one of the weak actors in Iran movie industry who turned to be a film maker afterward.
Cinema Journalist
In theoretic text Reza Kazemi analysed and criticised journalism in Iran and explained how a vegetable retailer in market becomes movie critic.
Film theory
In theoretic section we focused on Marxism and cinema
Short story
In this edition we have 5 original stories by four Iranian writers, and a translated story by Caroline carol
Letters
In this edition we have a comic letter about an Iranian imaginary famous film critic. He lives in Caribbean shores and is a playgirl superstar and claim to be in history and historical stories pedigree.
Faces
An interesting chat with Paul Auster about his last movie, and three poems by Reymond carver are the other writings of this edition.
TV analysis
In TV section we discussed around religious shows and censor in Iran national TV channels. Mohammad Rahmanian was a showman whom got sacked because of one of his TV show guest’s words/opinions!
Interview
Very detailed interview with Ali Babachahi: He is one of Avangard poets in Iran who is against traditional and classical poem structure formats. In this interview he talks about his research for his hate of Iranian classical poem formats
Memorial
“Khosro Shakibaie(Shakibayi)” famous Iranian actor passed away last month. “Hamid Hamoun” was his most famous role in Darioush Mehrjoie’s film.
He played role of stressed and dump intellectual in that movie. Khosro created couple of more memorable artwork after that. He died of liver disease. In this edition we have three texts regarding his memorial ceremony
Monolog on the hot asphalt
Yellow writing (writing for trashy magazines and papers) and gossiping is one of the topics of this edition. This section(monolog on...) is a serial one that in each vol focuses on cultural issues in journalism.
Music
In music section we looked at John Lennon and The Beatles rock music band. His murder etc.
Poem
Couple of poems by Iranian poets finish this edition.
This brief translated by: Mehdi Zaboli
Editor: Reza Kazemi
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