There are many really good Iranian films available through what I would call the "usual suspects" in the US pretty much any of the ones released here in the last 5 or more years. Iranian cinema has thrived.
There may also be some titles available outside the US in Canada or the UK that would have English titles. I do not know the distributor but most of "ethnic" distributors tend not to have legal copies. I may also have some info on 2 terrific docs on the history of Iranian Cinema that have not been released here that I know of Jessica On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Wochna, Lorraine <woc...@ohio.edu> wrote: > Hi all, > > > > Just a thumbs up or down on this --- > > I’ve been asked to purchase these titles, so far the only distributor I > can find (via Worldcat) is Iranianmovies.com. Has anybody worked with them > and can give a thumbs up? > > https://www.iranianmovies.com/ > > If not, recommendations for distributors for Iranian cinema. > > Thanks, as always, for your help, > > lorraine > > > > (Ohio U) > > > > > > > > > > > > The first one is* Ragbar/ Downpour *by *Bahman Beyzaie* - 1972 the film > has been repaired and archived by the Scorsese Film Foundation couple of > years ago and has been shown at UCLA and Stanford University. I know one of > them has the repaired copy. here are the links to the IMDB and UCLA sites: > https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2013-04-13/downpour-ragbar-1972 > > http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067649/ > > > > The other one which many people consider a masterpiece in the Iranian > cinema is *Still Life* by *Sohrab Shahid Saless - 1974 *and here you can > find the link to its IMDB page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072248/ > > > > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of > issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic > control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in > libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as > an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of > communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video > producers and distributors. > >
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