Iranian Cinema, Inspiration and Adaptation:
Darius Mehrjui

The UCL Mellon Programme and supported by Iran Heritage Foundation

Dr. Saeed Talajooy, UCL Mellon Fellow

Modern Iranian cinema entered a new stage with Dariush Mehrjui. His early masterpiece, The Cow (1970), took the symbolic realism of Iranian art cinema to a new level. As an Iranian New Wave cinema icon, his films bear some resemblance with those of Rossellini, De Sica and Satyajit Ray, but he also adds something distinctively Iranian to his works. Most of his films are inspired by literature and adapted from Iranian and foreign novels and plays. The UCL Mellon Programme will be screening a selection of Mehrjui's films adapted from or inspired by the works of seminal authors and dramatists such as J.D. Salinger, Saul Bellow, Henrik Ibsen and Goli Taraghi.

Wednesday February 24, 2010
5:30 pm
Room 1.02, Engineering Building, Malet Place

Hamoon, The Blind Owl or Herzog: Inspiration and Influence
1990
Persian with English subtitles

Guest Speaker: Dr. Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad, SOAS Centre for Film and Media Studies

Wednesday March 3, 2010
5:30 pm
Room 1.02, Engineering Building, Malet Place

Sara & A Doll’s House: Intercultural Adaptation
1993
Persian with English subtitles

Guest Speaker: Dr. Nacim Pak-Shiraz, SOAS Centre for Film and Media Studies

Wednesday March 10, 2010
5:30 pm
Room 1.02, Engineering Building, Malet Place

Pari & Franny and Zooey: Intercultural Adaptation
1995
Persian with English subtitles

Guest Speaker: Clare Foster, Independent Scholar and Expert in Adaptation

Wednesday March 17, 2010
5:30 pm
Room 1.02, Engineering Building, Malet Place

The Pear Tree & The Pear Tree: Intralingual Adaptation
1998
Persian with English subtitles

Guest Speaker: Parviz Jahed, Independent Scholar and Film Critic

Free

Dr. Saeed Talajooy: s.talajooy@ucl.ac.uk
For full details visit: www.ucl.ac.uk/mellon-program/seminars/2009-2010