Tehran cinema to review classic, modern

A cinema theater in Tehran has set to review two world classic and modern movies in early May.

‘Psycho’ directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock and ‘Death of Stalin’ directed and co-written by Armando Iannucci will go on screen at cinematheque of Qolhak Cineplex.

The cinematheque will have a single screening of ‘Death of Stalin’, which is a 2017 political satire, on May 4.

It narrates the time when the tyrannical dictator Joseph Stalin dies in 1953, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader.

Among the contenders are the inept Georgy Malenkov, the wily Nikita Khrushchev and the sadistic secret police chief Lavrenti Beria. They bumble, brawl and backstab their way to the top.

Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Paddy Considine, Rupert Friend, Jason Isaacs, Michael Palin, Andrea Riseborough and Jeffrey Tambor are in the cast.

The 1960 American psychological horror film ‘Psycho’ is also scheduled for a single screening on May 5 at the cinematheque.

Starring Antony Perkins, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Vera Miles and Martin Balsam, the film was based on the 1959 namesake novel by Robert Bloch.

The film centers on the encounter between a secretary who ends up at an out-of-the-way motel after stealing money from her employer and the motel’s disturbed owner-manager, and its aftermath.

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