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*Movie Talk: CUT with Director Amir Naderi*

*Date:* Wednesday December 14, 2011 *Time:* 7:00p.m.
(Talk will start at
7:30p.m.) *Venue:*
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*Speaker: *
Amir Naderi, Iranian-American film director
*Moderator:*
Robert Dujarric
*Admission:* Free (Open to general public) *RSVP:*

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*Outline*
Japanese cinema was once the most admired cinema in the world. When they were young, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Francis F. Coppola were fighting to parade around Hollywood next to Akira Kurosawa. Star Wars or Kill Bill are directly influenced by Japanese directors. Mikio Naruse, Yasujiro Ozu or Kenji Mizoguchi have left works that illuminates still today the movie industry. Yet Japan seems the only place on the planet that is unaware of the richness of its cinematographic tradition.

Amir Naderi refuses to bow. A veteran Iranian-American director, Mr Naderi is about to release CUT. CUT is the movie of his life. He took 10 years to finish it. CUT is an homage to the greatness of Japanese cinema as well as a wake-up call to the creative spirits of Japan. He will talk about his experience of working with Japanese star actors, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Takako Tokiwa, Takashi Sasano and others; the necessity of Japanese classic cinema; and the future of cinema as a form of art and entertainment. Soon at a theater near you, but already at TUJ on December 14.

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*Speaker*
Since the 1970s, Amir Naderi has been among the most influential figures of New Iranian Cinema, developing his knowledge of film at the theater where he worked as a boy.
He entered the international spotlight with cinema classics such as THE RUNNER (1985) and WATER, WIND, DUST (1986), which both won the Golden Montgolfiere at Nantes. The first prominent Iranian director to expatriate in thelate '80s, Naderi's American films have uniquely captured the vanishing texture of New York, premiering in New Directors/New Films, Venice, Cannes, Tribeca, and Sundance. SOUND BARRIER (2005)won the Roberto Rossellini Critics Prize at the Rome Film Festival. His film, VEGAS: BASED ON A TRUE STORY, premiered in competition at Venice in 2008. His last work, CUT, premiered as the Orizzonti Opening Film at Venice in 2011. Naderi's work has been the subject of retrospectives at museums and film festivals around the world including Lincoln Center, Pusan, and Torino.

*Filmography*
2011 CUT
2008 Vegas: Based on a True Story
2005 Sound Barrier
2002 Marathon
1997 A, B, C... Manhattan
1993 Manhattan By Numbers
1989 Ab, Bad, Khak (Water, Wind, Dust)
1985 Davandeh (The Runner)
1981 Josteju Doe (Search Two)
1980 Josteju Yek (Search One)
1979 Barandeh (The Winner)
1975 Marsiyeh (Requiem)
1974 Entezar (Waiting)
1973 Saz Dahani (Harmonica)
1973 Tangsir
1971 Tangna (Impasse)
1970 Khoda Hafez Rafiq (Goodbye Friend)

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*Robert Dujarric*
Director* *
*Kyle Cleveland*
Associate Director
*Eriko Kawaguchi*
Coordinator

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