Product Details

• Directors: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
• ASIN: B000LO3B3S
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #457,233 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Few countries are as mad about movies as Iran, and Mohsen Makhmalbaf makes this mania the subject of this charming, slyly witty work, made to mard the centenary of cinema. The director placed an advertisement for 100 actors and actresses to audition for his new film, and SALAAM CINEMA records the result: 5,000 people turn up, and after the inevitable melee, Makhmalbaf and his crew interview a stream of applicants. All of them want, in varying degrees of desperation, to be movie stars, and Makhmalbaf, both behind and in front of the camera, takes great pleasure in revealing their tenacity, vanity, and illusions. Sometimes gentle, sometimes burdening or harsh, SALAAM CINEMA shuttles between fiction and documentary, encouraging examination of the director's role in filmmaking, and ultimately, the significance of cinema in everyday life. The director, MOHSEN MAKHMALBAF was born in Tehran in 1957. He quit school at the age of 15 to suport his family, and at 17, was imprisoned for several years by the Pahlavi regime. Since 1981, he has made several internationally acclaimed films including THE PEDDLER (1986), THE CYCLIST (1988), MARRIAGE OF THE BLESSED (1989), SALAAM CINEMA (1995), GABBEH (1996), A MOMENT OF INNOCENCE (1996), THE SILENCE (1998), and KANDAHAR (2002)