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IRAN INSIDE OUT AT THE CHELSEA ART MUSEUM, NEW YORK
Artists participating Ala Ebtekar, Negar Ahkami, Nicky Nodjoumi, Parastou Forouhar, Pooneh Maghazehe, Pouran Jinchi, Ramin Haerizadeh, Roya Akhavan, Samira Abbasy, Sara Rahbar, Shahram Entekhabi, Shahram Karimi, Shirin Neshat, Shiva Ahmadi, Shoja Azari, Barbad Golshiri, Bita Feyyazi, Daryoush Gharahzad, Farhad Moshiri, Golnaz Fathi, Shirin Fakhim and Farideh Lashai.
jun 26 2009
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An Artwork By Kaufman
Of the two loud literary voices to be heard in ''Henry and June,'' Philip Kaufman's long, steamy and untethered account of the three-way romance involving the novelist Henry Miller, his wife, June, and the compulsive diarist Anais Nin, it is Nin's that emerges more clearly. The raw, reckless immediacy of Miller's work has been overpowered by Nin's more passionately overheated style.
Nin's posthumously published diary describing her intense attachment to both of the Millers is the basis for the film's screenplay by Mr. Kaufman and his wife, Rose. (Their son Peter is the film's producer, which makes for one highly unusual family undertaking.) That alone is not enough to account for the dominance of Nin's point of view. The film is also deeply in harmony with her thoughts at their most fulsome and hyperbolic, with her self-aggrandizing assessments, and with her idealistic embrace of sexual liberation as the pursuit of truth. Though ''Henry and June'' is set in Paris (in the early 1930's), its attitudes would be equally at home on many a college campus, circa freshman year.
As with Mr. Kaufman's earlier ''Unbearable Lightness of Being,'' this film brings together a brilliant, rakish man, a small and demure woman, and a bombshell. The first two, in this case, are Henry (Fred Ward) and Anais (Maria de Medeiros), who meet by chance and are instantly attracted to each other's ideas. ''I'd love to read something he's written,'' Anais muses after this encounter. ''Fat chance - he'll never get published,'' says a not very prescient companion. Nin initially appears as a tremulous young writer about to discover the subject that would consume her forever after. Marveling at a cache of quaint pornographic photos, she declares breathlessly: ''In that closet I became familiar with the endless varieties of erotic experience.'' The film presents those varieties as indeed endless, but it invests very little drama in who happens to be doing what to whom. The characters' sexual abandon is so complete that it robs the story of any shape.
Anais eventually expands her fascination with Henry to include the towering, voluptuous June (Uma Thurman). ''June appeared like an angel,'' she says. ''I offered her a fool's faith.'' Somewhere in the background as all this transpires is the patient Hugo (Richard E. Grant), the dim, stodgy husband who addresses Anais as Pussywillow.
The screenplay emphasizes Anais's enduring attraction to her husband. But the film undermines that by presenting him as a fool, at one point staging the kind of wild cinematic bacchanal in which the actors cavort wearing carnival masks and blue body paint. In the midst of this revelry, Hugo seduces his own wife while wearing headgear that makes him look like an owl. She takes him seriously, but the audience will not.
Meanwhile, Henry and Anais roam the cafes of Paris declaiming about ''literature as we know it, poetry as we know it'' and generally testing their own daring. They make love strenuously beneath a bridge by the Seine. They spend time with Brassai, who takes pictures in a whorehouse. Magicians do tricks. Accordions play. And Henry and Anais talk fervently about their own writing. ''Just read your goddamn book about D. H. Lawrence, and my, oh, my, it's one helluva book, Miss Nin,'' Henry says. Mr. Ward delivers lines like this with rascally fervor, but his is essentially an unplayable role. With his head shaved distractingly to simulate Miller's baldness, and with a screenplay that has him exhorting friends to read Spengler and Thomas Mann, Mr. Ward is asked to give more of an impersonation than a performance; still, he is always appealing. Miss de Medeiros, a photogenic actress who resembles Nin, is mostly called upon to let the camera study her huge, soulful eyes and brave little chin. Ms. Thurman, as the Brooklyn-accented June, takes a larger-than-life character and makes her even bigger, though the performance is often as curious as it is commanding. It says a lot about the film's posturing that Count Bruga, the sinister-looking little male marionette that June Miller really did carry with her as a kind of conversational prop, seems no more excessive here than anything else.
The film's sex scenes, photographed delicately by Philippe Rousselot and directed with great intensity by Mr. Kaufman, are particularly lofty. These sequences, often tinged with symbolism (a hand playing a guitar juxtaposed with a hand on a woman's breast), tend to be self-consciously bold. But they are also crucial, since the film's only real drama, indeed its only real story, hinges upon Anais's awakening attraction to June.
Even this is presented with excessive weight. An extended bit of foreshadowing finds Anais and Hugo uneasily visiting a bordello and paying to watch a sexual demonstration involving two women. Though the episode is elaborately staged and actually has some narrative purpose, it lacks the fire and candor to which any film about Henry Miller presumably aspires. Nothing about ''Henry and June'' is as daring as that.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 Posted by Faranak
Hundreds of artists told us how the economy is affecting their lives and work.(slide show)
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در زندگی گاهی اتفاقهای جالبی میافتد، سالها پیش در ایران دوستی فیلمی به من داد
با عنوان فارسی "زیبای مزاحم".
فیلم در زمانی که غرق در مسائل هنر و نقاشی و مجسمه سازی بودم شدیدا مرا تحت تاثیر
قرار داد.گذشت تا اینکه مهاجر شدم و شکل و شمایل زندگی کاملا با آنچه که عمری به آن
خو گرفته بودم متفاوت شد.
هزارو یک مسالهٔ گوناگون که هر کدام ذهن و روحت را به سویی میکشند.
در میان تمام این دست و پنجه نرم کردن ها،ناگهان چیزی شروع به تکان دادن هزارتوی
وجودت میکند. تونلهای تاریکی که سالهاست گذری به آنجا نیفتاده به ناگاه روشن میشوند
و درست مثل احساسی است که شیی گمشده ت را پیدا کرده ای. نگاهی به اطراف تونل
زیبای نیمه روشن میکنی و میگویی من هم روزی از این فضا لبریز از لذت بودم.
بی دلیل گمش کرده بودم و امروز با دلیل پیدا شد.
روز گذشته در بلاگ دوستی ۲ کلیپ از این فیلم را دیدم.خیلی جالب بود مثل تکان دادن
حافظهٔ دراز مدت با یک شوک ذهنی که مرا تا جاهای دوری برد، پر از احساسهای خوب.
سپاس از این دوست عزیز.
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زمان حال ساکن است بر کودکی من باران میبارد بر باغ تبدار باران میبارد گلهای خارا درختان دود بر برگ انجیری پیشانی مرا در می نوردی باران تو را خیس نمیکند
Sunday, May 10, 2009 Posted by Faranak
سوسن دیهیم از هنرمندان مورد علاقه من است که در سال 2000 از طریق شهره آغداشلو با کارهای
بی نظیرش آشنا شدم.اولین آهنگهایش را در آلبوم دیوانه خدا شنیدم و هنوز فکر میکنم بهترینند
فرانک
Sussan Deyhim, is a composer, vocalist and performance artist who has been at the forefront of experimental music internationally for over two decades. Deyhim's music combines extended vocal techniques, digital processing, and the ancient mysticism of Middle Eastern music to create a deeply moving fusion of East and West.
Born in Tehran, Sussan Deyhim began her career dancing with Iran's Pars National Ballet company (performing weekly on Iranian national television), and then with Maurice Béjart's Ballet of the 20th Century. She moved to New York City in 1980, embarking on a multifaceted career encompassing music, theater, dance and media, and wide-ranging collaborations with leading artists from across the spectrum of contemporary art.
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Friday, May 8, 2009 Posted by Faranak
برگرفته از کتاب: فراتر از بودن – کریستین بوبن
درحا شیه : چقدر آشنا ست این -انگار با من زندگی میکند-
Monday, May 4, 2009 Posted by Faranak
Saturday, May 2, 2009 Posted by Faranak
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being" is one of my favorite books which I read that in 1991, now I really like to read it again, so turned the pages randomly , these lines caught my eyes and I like to share with you.
...We can never know what to want, because living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come...
We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold.And can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?
That's why life is always like a sketch, no, "sketch" is not quite the word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture,whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.
Friday, May 1, 2009 Posted by Faranak
سنگ | |
برای سنگر، |
آهن | |
برای شمشير، |
جوهر | |
برای عشق... |
در خود به جُست وجويي پيگير | |
همت نهاده ام |
در خود | |
ستمگرانه |
بيهوده تر از | |
تشنج ِ احتضار: |
جفت ِ فصلناپذيرش | |
ــ تن ــ |
به تفويضي بيقيدانه | |
نطفهی زهرآگيناش را پذيرا ميشود. |
بيهودهتر از تشنج ِ احتضار | |
که در تلاش ِ تاراندن ِ مرگ |
برگزیده ازمجموعه اشعار: ققنوس در باران