Tehran hosts conference on 'Hollywoodism and Cinema'February 2, 2012 - 13:05 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The 2nd international conference on Hollywoodism and Cinema started work in a ceremony attended by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other high-ranking officials in Tehran on Thursday, Feb 2, Fars News Agency reported. About 48 foreign scholars from France, the U.S., Canada, Belgium, Greece, Spain, Tunisia, Italy, Egypt, Russia, Lebanon, Azerbaijan, Palestine and the UK will take part in the event. The conference is scheduled to be held as a sideline program of the 2012 Fajr International Film Festival. The event will discuss five principle topics namely 'Narration in Hollywood,' 'Role of Cinema in the World Awakening,' 'The Role of Hollywoodism and Human Decadence,' 'Portrait of Future in Hollywood' and 'Hollywoodism and Zionism.' The conference will also review subjects such as 'Hollywood and Holocaust,' 'Palestine on the Line of Fire,' 'Hollywood and Apocalypse,' 'Hollywood,' and 'Darwinism and Liberalism.'  Top stories The Jubilee Cannes Film Festival honored the legendary French director, the 89-year-old Alain Resnais. Brad Pitt doesn’t want his new film, the crime tale Killing Them Softly, to be viewed as an attack on President Obama According to the wiretapped conversations, Seki obtained the drugs from Sinan Yüksel, who is among 19 suspects. “The Master" features a sure-to-be-controversial look at the origins of a religion that sounds a whole lot like Scientology.   |  Latest news “Intouchables” screenings to be preceded by Paul McCartney-directed short  The three-minute short, based on an idea by the director’s daughter Stella, stars Johnny Depp and Natalie Portman.Weekly digest of foreign currency deals From May 14-April 20, AMD loans granted by banks totaled 29 bln, while USD loans amounted to 35 million.History re-written in "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" trailer (video) The gruesome and graphic trailer features an ax-wielding Benjamin Walker on a mission to avenge his mother's death.Grant Bowler to star opposite Lindsay Lohan in Elizabeth Taylor biopic Bowler, whose recent credits include the now-canceled ABC primetime soap GCB, will play Burton in the telefilm. |
