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Cuar'f3n designed the project to take advantage of state-of-the-art Dolby Atmos sound technology, and now cineasts will have more of a chance to enjoy that presentation in full before streaming becomes the only option.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Australian Director Maxine Williamson said the Fajr International Film Festival provides a great opportunity for Iranian and global cineasts to interact and cooperation with each other.

The takeaway: Three Israeli films have earned praise from cineasts and brickbats from rightwing politicos who question funding of pics that examine Palestinian issues.

Short films by young German cineasts such as Alexander Kluge and Edgar Reitz, the manifesto proclaimed (without naming names), had made a splash at international festivals--and indeed it is true that these works had generated enthusiasm among foreign journalists and had brought attention to German cinema as a site of vanguard endeavor for the first time since the Weimar Republic.

WITH FARE RANGING from the transvestite-loving Pedro Almodovar to the man-loving Cole Porter, the 2004 Cannes Film Festival was a treat for gay cineasts. Usually, the opening night movie is a dire affair, but after the disaster of 2003, organizers weren't taking any chances.

Cineasts pontificate about Buster Keaton, Roberto Benigni and Harpo Marx, but to Shelleyvision there is only one master of slapstick: Pingu.

Marrone's assertion that Cavani "has achieved an artistic recognition among cineasts and critics that remains unparalleled in the European film industry" (xiii) may thus come as a surprise to many Anglophone readers, especially those who have come of age since the 1970s.

The statement already carries the signature of more than 250 renowned Iranian artists, academicians and journalists, including iconic cineasts and actors Ezzatollah Entezami, Jamshid Mashayekhi, Ali Nasirian, Roya No-Nahali, Mohammad Ali Keshavarz, Davoud Rashidi, Parviz Parastouyee, Reza Kianian, Jamal Shourjeh, Rakhshan Bani-E'temad, Kamal Tabrizi, Seyed Reza Mir-Karimi, Nasser Taqvayee and OSCAR wining Director Asqar Fahadi.

Although Christian Fredrik Martin and Asle Vatn describe themselves as "true cineasts" who worked their way up the movie biz food chain starting in the early 1990s, they both eventually realized a proper education in the field was necessary.

Well, friends, I'm heeding Deitch's passionate plea when I tell you this DVD is a must-have for cineasts and lesbian film collectors alike.

Abroad, these we even more interest in his work, especially in the United States, where his early novels attained wide readership among college students and his films, though far less known, attracted the interest of hard-core cineasts. But Robbe-Grillet greatest American impact was probably in the art world, always more predisposed to experimentalism and a aesthetic innovation than other creative fields.