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Sofiko Chiaureli was buried at the Pantheon in Tbilisi, Georgia and a
decision has been made to name a street after the great actress who was
Paradjanov’s muse. Perhaps it would be near Maestro’s statue
() in Tbilisi?!
We are still investigating the issue of the fake collages
() sold by London’s MacDougall Arts Ltd
Auctions and hope to update our readers in the near future.
Paradjanov retrospective and exhibition at goEast festival of Central and
European film will be held in Wiesbaden, Germany, 9 – 15 April, 2008.
Visit the Museum of Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors in the Verkhovina village
of Ukraine’s Ivano-Frankovsk region at the house of Vasiliy Khimchak where
Paradjanov filmed his Ukrainian masterpiece in 1964.
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An asteroid called 3963 Paradzhanov was discovered on October 8, 1969 by
Lyudmila Chernykh. The asteroid is also known as 1969 TP2 and has an
Absolute Magnitute of 13.6 (whatever that means!) and Eccentricity of
0.1962314 (now that’s surprising; zero eccentricity for Paradjanov?!) Here’s
more from Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California
( ).
In February, the Telegraph in England published a list of The 100 Best films
– Documentary and World Cinema. At number 9 is Andrei Tarkovsky’s Andrei
Rublev and at number 10 — Sergei Paradjanov’s The Color of Pomegranates.
"It delivers a torrent of breathtaking images", the paper wrote.
Erik Morse of SFGB Arts and Culture wrote this about the recent screening of
Jodorowsky’s El Topo at SFMoma "…Like other cinematic prophets before him
– Armenian director Sergei Paradjanov and Pier Paolo Pasolini come to mind –
Jodorowsky had a tendency toward "vulgar" messianism that would often
subject him to the political disenfranchisement of Homo sacer. El Topo, has,
in many ways, become a symbol of his artistic crucifixion…"
Composer Tigran Mansurian made an appearance at the premiere of his Litte
Suite on March 30, 2008 at the Zipper Hall in Los Angeles, which was
performed
as part of Dilijan Chamber Music series. Tigran Mansurian scored Sergei
Parajanov’s The Color of Pomegranates
( tml) and several of Mikhail Vartanov’s
documentaries ().
In May, the filmmaker Atom Egoyan will be in Israel to receive the Dan David
Prize. Egoyan will share the 1 million dollar prize with playwright Tom
Stoppard and novelist Amos Oz.
[07 April 2008]