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For the occasion of cinema's centenary, Mohsen Makmalbaf the most controversial and popular film-maker, runs casting advertisements in newspapers calling for 100 actors to audtion for parts in his new film Salam Cinema. Some 5,000 people showed up and a near riot occurs. In the next eight days Makhmalbaf auditions 1000 applicants and shoots all the procedures as the main part of his film. He probes each applicant to see why they want so desperately to be actors and to what extent they are perpared to go in order to reach their goal. Through a behind the scenes approach we discover how he works with his crew and how he is able to manipulate and effect each performance, sometimes even being manipulated himself.
One night I was watching a current affairs program on TV about disasters, but they had included so many talking heads of people involved, that I could not watch the visuals. So I became frustrated enough to choose four stories and cut them together.
Deals with a view from a flat window, onto a bus stop. People await their bus, each displays patience, isolation, stress and boredom. Street life unfolds and we begin to be caught up in the waiting and observation.
A behind-the-scenes film dealing with the art of filmmaking. Shot on location during the making of the ABC drama 'The Leaving of Liverpool', it celebrates the whole medium of the cinema, and its functions and responsibilities through the use of sound and visual excerpts of films from around the world and the comments of its directors.
A train driver always moves at work, but in his own life...?
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