{"id":3653,"date":"2016-04-12T06:05:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T06:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/?p=3653"},"modified":"2016-04-15T06:25:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T06:25:50","slug":"film-screening-the-colour-of-paradise-majid-majidi-ffb-22-630pm-april-14-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/film-screening-the-colour-of-paradise-majid-majidi-ffb-22-630pm-april-14-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Screening: &#8220;The Color of Paradise,&#8221; Majid Majidi, FFB-22, 6:30PM April 14 (EN)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Famed Iranian director Majid Majidi\u2019s wonderful The Color of Paradise will be the final film of the term from Bilkent Cinematics, and it screens Thursday, April 14, FFB-22, at 6.30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Majidi\u2019s 1997 film Children of Heaven was the first Iranian movie ever nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. In 1999 came Color of Paradise, the absorbing, deeply touching story of young Mohammed, whose blindness is a burden not only for him but, so it seems, his father, too.  We follow Mohammed as he tries to both understand God and navigate a world that appears at times to disregard him entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Critic Roger Ebert said the movie is \u201cmade with delicacy and beauty,\u201d and \u201cbecause they do not condescend to young audiences, Majidi&#8217;s films of course are absorbing for adults as well, and there is a lesson here: Any family film not good enough for grownups is certainly not good enough for children.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famed Iranian director Majid Majidi\u2019s wonderful The Color of Paradise will be the final film of the term from Bilkent Cinematics, and it screens Thursday, April 14, FFB-22, at 6.30 p.m. Majidi\u2019s 1997 film Children of Heaven was the first Iranian movie ever nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film [\u2026] <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"more_link clearfix\" href=\"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/film-screening-the-colour-of-paradise-majid-majidi-ffb-22-630pm-april-14-en\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oldposts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3683,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653\/revisions\/3683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}