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

That could be a web show (get on it Reid! :), but, for the moment, a blog entry will have to do. From Reid Rosefelt's recent post " What Andrei Tarkovsky Said About Francis Coppola ": "In the early 80’s, I was running a movie PR firm called “Reid Rosefelt Publicity.” The title sounded impressive, but it was only me and an assistant or two working out of my bedroom in my apartment on Riverside Drive. Some of the people who worked with me included future Premiere Magazine editor Howard Karren , director/producer Sara Driver (mentioned last week), writer Jane Hammerslough , leading New York unit publicist Julie Kuehndorf , and filling in for a few weeks as a favor, Adam Brooks , who would go on to write Jonathan Demme’s “Beloved” and direct “Definitely, Maybe.” Among the films that were promoted out of my bedroom include Jim Jarmusch’s “Stranger Than Paradise,” Susan Seidelman’s “Desperately Seeking Susan,” Werner Herzog’s “Fitzcarraldo” (and Les Blank’s “Burden of

Old, but still good, from the interview article at The Guardian : "Andersson's cast members are not actors playing faceless figures, but non-professionals who bring their physical peculiarities (pretty extreme peculiarities at that) to bulk out his dream world. Some of them are familiar to Swedish TV viewers as regulars in Andersson's commercials; nearly all are fished at random from Swedish society. They include a lawyer, a retired insurance clerk, and a former embassy chauffeur. The whale-like Lars Nordh, who plays a depressive businessman, was spotted shopping at Ikea; he's since become famous as a mean-spirited farmer in Andersson's dairy ads." Read the rest of the article at this link . And here's a clip from Andersson's You, the Living : :: ADVERTISEMENT Farzad Rostami Delaware Tobacco blog post 3/24/13: http://farzadrostamidelawaretobacco.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-bqe-film-by-sufjan-stevens.html Farz

Older than most countries & civilizations on this planet & now in the world news for disputed election related unrest - but if you are just starting to read a lot about Iran, here is a whole lot of info. - links from Wikipedia covering over 5,000 year (that's right, FIVE THOUSAND - that's like 50 or more human lifetimes - if you were lucky enough to live a 100 years every single time) - apparently one of the oldest nations in the current world (up there with Egypt, China, India, & one time peers of the Ancient Greeks & Romans): " History of Iran Empires of Persia · Kings of Persia BC Prehistory Proto-Elamite civilization 3200–2800 Elamite dynasties 2800–550 Kassites 16th–12th cent. Kingdom of Mannai 10th–7th cent. Median Empire 728–550 Achaemenid Empire 550–330 Seleucid Empire 330–150 Parthian Empire 247– BC 226 AD Sassanid Empire 226–651 Afrighid dynasty ?–995 Patriarchal Caliphate 637–651 Umayyad Caliphate 661–750 Abba