My Name Is Negahdar Jamali And I Make Westerns
Directed by Kamran Heidari
Iran, 2012
Negahdar Jamali walks around a market place going from vendor to vendor looking for chicken feathers. It’s not a totally strange request, but when asked why he needs them, he explains that they’re for the “indians” in his newest western film. This answer is met with astonishment and the obvious follow-up question: “Who makes Westerns in Iran?” Indeed, transplanting a very American genre into the Iranian landscape, with Persian men playing cowboys and indians seems ludicrous, but perhaps no more so than Keanu Reeves playing the leader of 47 Japanese ronin. It’s when Negahdar explains what he loves about westerns that it becomes clearer as to how the western can fit into Iranian culture. He tells director Kamran Heidari that the hero in these movies comes from nowhere, no one knows his name, but...
Directed by Kamran Heidari
Iran, 2012
Negahdar Jamali walks around a market place going from vendor to vendor looking for chicken feathers. It’s not a totally strange request, but when asked why he needs them, he explains that they’re for the “indians” in his newest western film. This answer is met with astonishment and the obvious follow-up question: “Who makes Westerns in Iran?” Indeed, transplanting a very American genre into the Iranian landscape, with Persian men playing cowboys and indians seems ludicrous, but perhaps no more so than Keanu Reeves playing the leader of 47 Japanese ronin. It’s when Negahdar explains what he loves about westerns that it becomes clearer as to how the western can fit into Iranian culture. He tells director Kamran Heidari that the hero in these movies comes from nowhere, no one knows his name, but...
- 3/14/2014
- by Jae K. Renfrow
- SoundOnSight
Looking back over the year at what films moved and impressed us, it is clear that watching old films is a crucial part of making new films meaningful. Thus, the annual tradition of our end of year poll, which calls upon our writers to pick both a new and an old film: they were challenged to choose a new film they saw in 2013—in theaters or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they also saw in 2013 to create a unique double feature.
All the contributors were given the option to write some text explaining their 2013 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch in that perfect world we know doesn't exist but can keep dreaming of every time we go to the movies.
How...
All the contributors were given the option to write some text explaining their 2013 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch in that perfect world we know doesn't exist but can keep dreaming of every time we go to the movies.
How...
- 1/13/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
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