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SUMMARY:Checkpoint / Dead End
DESCRIPTION:Visit the UCLA Film & Television Archive website to learn more 
 about upcoming screenings and events.\n\nREGISTER FOR THIS 
 SCREENING\n\nPlease note: Registration does not guarantee entry if the 
 event reaches capacity. Admission is granted on a first come\, first served 
 basis.\n\nPatrons who have registered will need to obtain their free 
 tickets at the box office\, where seating will be assigned. Any seats 
 remaining 15 minutes before showtime will be released to standby 
 patrons.\n\nIn person: director Parviz Sayyad\, actor Mary 
 Apick.\n\nScreening 1 of 2\n\nCheckpoint\n\nYear: 1987\nCountry: 
 U.S.\nLanguage: English and Persian with English subtitles\nRuntime: 91 
 min.\n35mm. Color.\n\nDuring the height of the 1979 Iranian hostage 
 crisis\, a busload of Iranian college students returning to the U.S. after 
 a field trip in Canada are thrown into political and legal limbo when 
 they’re refused entry at the border. A ripped-from-the-headlines urgency 
 drives writer-director Parviz Sayyad’s Checkpoint as the students split 
 along factional lines in their struggle to reclaim their rights and 
 dignity. Executive producer Mary Apick also leads a committed ensemble cast 
 that never loses sight of the fragile\, individual humanity ever at risk 
 amid grand ideological clashes.\n\nDirector/Screenwriter: Parviz Sayyad. 
 With: Mary Apick\, Houshang Touzie\, Parviz Sayyad.\n\nScreening 2 of 
 5\n\nDead End\n\nYear: 1977\nCountry: Iran\nLanguage: Persian with English 
 subtitles\nRuntime: 95 min.\nDigital. Color.\n\nThis provocative film stars 
 Mary Apick as a young woman who is drawn to a mysterious suitor haunting 
 the dead-end street where she lives\, only to discover that he is not what 
 he seems and she and her family may be in danger. A giant of Iranian 
 cinema\, writer-director Parviz Sayyad rose to fame as the star of the 
 commercial Samad film and television series before producing some of the 
 key works of the Iranian New Wave\, including films by Sohrab Shahid 
 Saless\, Ebrahim Golestan and Dariush Mehrjui. Based on a short story by 
 Anton Chekhov\, Dead End plays with themes of voyeurism and surveillance in 
 a society on the verge of radical transformation.\n\nDCP. Director: Parviz 
 Sayyad. Screenwriter: Parviz Sayyad\, Houshang Baharlou. With: Mary Apick\, 
 Parviz Bahador\, Apick Yousefian.\n\nJoin Meeting: 
 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ucla-celebration-of-iranian-cinema-checkpoint-1987-dead-end-1977-tickets-1987863933537?aff=oddtdtcreator
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater\, UCLA Film & Television Archive
ORGANIZER;CN="Suzy Lee":MAILTO:szlee@library.ucla.edu
CATEGORIES:Screening
CONTACT;CN="Suzy Lee":MAILTO:szlee@library.ucla.edu
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