ARTHOUSE FILM NEWS - Cosmic Disco Detective Rene at Facets, Chicago 11/29/23

In this 5+ minutes long, uninterrupted video footage protesters are out on a Tehran street, shouting slogans, picking up rocks to use against Iranian government's forces, and the body of a dead protester is carried away by other protesters:

Get updates from Day 8 of election related unrest in Iran at Andrew Sullivan's blog . A video that was identified as showing the death of a young female protester after she was attacked by Iranian government's forces: Another video, identified as showing protesters fighting riot police, driving them back in one area:

Not quite 52 (a few months back I got the notion somehow that there are more film fests in NYC than there are weekends in a year), but close (and it is possible that I missed a few, or a lot). Here are links to 45 film festivals happening in NYC in 2009 (if you've got links for any missing ones, post them in Comments please): 1. Acefest 2. African 3. African Diaspora 4. Anarchist 5. Asian American International 6. BAMcinemaFEST 7. Bicycle 8. Blackout 9. Bosnian-Herzegovinian 10. Brooklyn International 11. CineKink 12. CMJ Music Marathon & Film 13. Coney Island 14. First Run 15. Food 16. Gen Art 17. Gotham Screen 18. Harlem International 19. Havana 20. HBO Bryant Park Summer 21. Human Rights Watch 22. Imagine Science Films 23. Jewish 24. Margaret Mead 25. Migrating Forms 26. Native American Film & Video 27. New Directors/New Films 28. New York 29. New York City Middle School 30. New Yo

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From Andrew Sullivan's post Why Iran Matters : "Moreover, Iran is at the very heart of the global struggle between the forces of distorted and politicized religious tyranny and the power of real faith and freedom. This struggle was never ours' to impose, however good the intentions. It was always there for the people themselves to grasp. And grasp it they now have - with astounding courage, clarity and calm." Read the rest of the post at this link . :: ADVERTISEMENT :: Farzad Rostami Delaware Tobacco blog http://farzadrostamidelawaretobacco.blogspot.com Farzad Rostami Delaware Tobacco 2 blog http://farzadrostamidelawaretobacco2.blogspot.com Farzad Rostami Delaware Tobacco 3 blog http://farzadrostamidelawaretobacco3.blogspot.com Farzad Rostami Delaware Tobacco 4 blog http://farzadrostamidelawaretobacco4.blogspot.com Farzad Rostami Delaware Tobacco 5 blog http://farzadrostamidelawaretobacco5.blogspot.com Farzad Ro

See what all the drama is about at this link , at the Calvin Klein site .

Maybe it was a phrase that was always in use, but I only started noticing it after I heard about the Jarmusch movie The Limits of Control. Here is a segment from the post titled The Limits of Control by Caltech professor Leonard Mlodinow, from the New York Times site: "That people are prone toward feeling in control even when they are not probably endowed our species with an advantage at some point in our evolution. Even today, a false sense of control can be beneficial in promoting a sense of well-being, or allowing us to maintain hope that a bad situation can improved." Read the rest at The Limits of Control post. - Sujewa :: ADVERTISEMENT :: Farzad Rostami Delaware Tobacco blog http://farzadrostamidelawaretobacco.blogspot.com Farzad Rostami Delaware Tobacco 2 blog http://farzadrostamidelawaretobacco2.blogspot.com Farzad Rostami Delaware Tobacco 3 blog http://farzadrostamidelawaretobacco3.blogspot.com Farzad Rostami Delaware Toba

The New Yorker's Laura Secor takes a look at possible options available to the Supreme Leader of Iran as he deals with an unprecedented popular movement against a most likely fraudulent election. From the essay: "What are Khamenei’s options? With protesters yelling “Down with the dictator” in the streets of nearly every city in Iran, his position could not be more precarious. He has staked his very legitimacy, and perhaps that of the edifice he sits atop, on forcing Iranians to accept Ahmadinejad’s supposed landslide victory. He can continue to try to force that down their throats with a show of raw power, or he can bend, which would show the opposition that he and the system are not really so powerful after all, that they are vulnerable to pressure from below. If he takes the latter road, it would be a radical departure from his style of governance up until now." And: "This is uncharted territory for the Islamic Republic of Iran. Until now, the regime has survived

Check out Sullivan's blog here . Times' Lede Blog here . Also check out Tehran Bureau . Thanks to this Gawker article for those & other links - check it out , article has a timeline of election results protests related events in Iran.

In the end of this Iran protest video from 6/14 there's a seemingly endless number of protesters marching down a large street in Iran, more reactions against the most likely fraudulent results from the recent Presidential election:

From an AOL news article : "Iran's supreme leader ordered Monday an investigation into allegations of election fraud, marking a stunning turnaround by the country's most powerful figure and offering hope to opposition forces who have waged street clashes to protest the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad." Read the rest of the article here . - Sujewa

From Abbas Djavadi's Iran & Beyond blog (thanks Filmmaker blog for the link): "The “electoral coup,” as many in Iran interviewed by Radio Farda called it, has changed the face of the Islamic Republic. It has formalized the exclusion of still moderate clerics, founding fathers and technocrats of the Islamic Republic, and consolidated the rule of a new elite led by Revolutionary Guards, intelligence offices, and radical Islamists who feel to be well-represented by the Ahmadinejad leadership of the last four years. It is widely assumed that the coup cannot have happened with[out?] the clear approval by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. As Supreme Leader, he is charged with protection of the Islamic Republic beyond all political groups and personalities. Khamenei has repeatedly said that a “truthful election with a high turnout” is the “clearest symbol of the system’s legitimacy.” Last night’s rigged vote count seems to have left that legitimacy in shatters." Read the

BANANAS!* trailer from WG Film on Vimeo . And here's the site for the movie . Here's a post at the site about Dole & allies trying to stop the screening of the film at the upcoming Los Angeles Film Festival . The film & the court case accuses Dole of using banned pesticides in Nicaragua & harming workers, from the site : "One of the pesticides, a DBCP-based compound called Nemagon, was banned in the USA in 1977 for causing male sterility. Standard Fruit—now Dole—continued to use the pesticide in its plantations outside the USA up to 1982." Got the link from All These Wonderful Things . UPDATE: LA Times article: Lawyer faces contempt charges in pesticide case against Dole :: :: ADVERTISING Farzad Rostami Delaware Tobacco Farzad Rostami Delaware Tobacco 2 Farzad Rostami Delaware Tobacco 3 Farzad Rostami Delaware Tobacco 4 Farzad Rostami Delaware Tobacco 5 ::

Bradley Cooper vs. Zack Galifianakis (w/ some early 90's computer graphics, ferns, & Carrot Top thrown in): Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis from Between Two Ferns