A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Editor:
1998 A Season for Cinema: Fictional reality, documentary fiction
1998 A Season for Cinema: Iranian Epic Literature, the adaptation of Ferdowsi's 'Shahnameh' for screenplay
1998 A Season for Cinema: Iranian music and film music
1998 A Season for Cinema: Myth and prototype in Iranian Cinema
1998 A Season for Cinema: Narrative structures and film editing in Iranian Cinema
1998 A Season for Cinema: Possibilities of literary adaptation in cinema
1998 A Season for Cinema: Spiritual tale, spiritual cinema
1998 A Season for Cinema: The documentary vision
1998 A Season for Cinema: The relationship between Iranian theatre and cinema
1998 A Season for Cinema: The role of architecture and semantic space-making in cinema
1998 A Season for Cinema: The role of the actor and acting capabilities in Iranian Cinema
1998 A Season for Cinema: The virtue of voice and speech, the power of the word
1998 A Season for Cinema: Visual aesthetics in Iranian films
1998 A Season for Cinema: Visual insight in Iran; Cinema, Light, Truth
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.