Thu 29 Oct 2009, 19:00, by Bardia Saadi-Nejad, at Bistro Burritoville:3rd floor, 2055 Rue Bishop, Montreal,QC
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This Thursday "Cafelitt" would like to invite you to attend a Halloween Party, while Bardia Saadi-nejad is the presenter, talking on Horror Cinema! Following the theme of his first talk at Cafelitt on Expressionism in 1920's German Cinema Bardia fallows the road towards Horror movies as a genre, mostly shaped in Hollywood, film aesthetics and cinematic rules of the genre. In the meantime we're going to have a party, where we encourage all the participants to wear a costume even if it's the simplest...
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Sun 25 Oct 2009, 18:00, by Gilda Boffa, at Visual Arts:1395 Rene Levesque West, Montreal
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Dear Cinephiles/ Colleagues/ Friends, Following the monthly video screening sessions of "Café Cinema", which has been focused on Iranian film history in a twelve session program, the 10th monthly video screening will present "The Silence", a prominent film from "Mohsen Makhmalbaf", Director of distinguished films as the likes of Safar e Ghandehar (aka Kandahar, International/English title) (2001), Gabbeh (1996), Nassereddin Shah, Actor-e Cinema (aka Once Upon a Time, Cinema) (1992), The Cyclist (1987) Gilda Boffa is a recent graduate of the...
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Thu 22 Oct 2009, 19:00, by Ehsan Daneshyar, at Bistro Burritoville:3rd floor, 2055 Rue Bishop, Montreal,QC
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In this session, Ehsan Daneshyar, PhD Student of Architecture, will talk about the Gilan , in north of Iran, Architecture. He will talk about the role of the climate, financial and social issues on the architecture of this provience and continue with their building procedures. He will also give some hints on Modern architecture of Gilan. در این جلسه در مورد معماری مسکونی گیلان که به معماری گیاهی نیز مشهور است می پردازیم. در مقدمه در مورد تاثیرات شرایط اقلیمی...
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Thu 15 Oct 2009, 19:00, by Dr. SaadiNejad, at GSA House: 2030 Mackay,Montreal, QC
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The Anglo-Russian Entente or the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907 was an accord signed on 31 August 1907 in St. Petersburg by Count Alexander Izvolsky, Foreign Minister of the Russian Empire, and Sir Arthur Nicolson, Britain's ambassador in Russia.The convention capped off several decades of the Great Game between the two powers. It defined their respective spheres of influence in Persia, Afghanistan, and Tibet. Persia was divided into three zones: a British zone in the south, a Russian zone in the north, and a narrow neutral zone serving as...
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