Massoud Farasati
{{Short description|Iranian film critic|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1951}}
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| nationality = Iranian
| party = Laborers’ Party of Iran {{small|(1979–81)}}
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- École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
- Université de Vincennes à Saint-Denis
- Università di Bologna}}
| occupation = Film critic
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| notable_works = The Joy of Criticism
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Massoud Farassati (also spelled Farasati or Ferasati, {{langx|fa|مسعود فراستی}}) is an Iranian film critic. He used to regularly appear in the Iranian State Television programme Haft, hosted by Fereydoun Jeyrani and later by Behrouz Afkhami.{{cite news|last1=Alipour|first1=Zahra|date=3 October 2016|title=Celebrated abroad, Oscar-winning Iranian director comes under fire at home|url=http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/10/asghar-farhadi-the-salesman-forooshandeh-criticism-iran.html|website=Al-Monitor|access-date=12 January 2017}} He has published anthologies of writings about such classical filmmakers as Charlie Chaplin, John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa and Ingmar Bergman in Persian.
Views
According to Saeed Kamali Dehghan of The Guardian, his views are close to those of the Iranian government.{{Cite news|last1=Saeed|first1=Kamal Dehghan|date=27 February 2012 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/feb/27/oscar-success-a-separation-iran|title=Oscar success of A Separation celebrated back home in Iran|work=Guardian|accessdate=20 February 2017}} He is a harshly dismissive of Abbas Kiarostami's works.{{cite book|title=Masters & Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema|author=Hamid Dabashi|author-link=Hamid Dabashi|isbn=0-934211-85-X|year=2007|publisher=Mage Publishers|page=287}}
Farassati uses the terms Siahnamayi and Festival Cinema ({{langx|fa|سینمای جشنوارهای}}) to describe films he deems "exotic" to foreign audience and of only seeking to win awards in the West.
As of today, Ferassati appears on the show 'Ketab Baaz' with views regarding diverse subjects {{cite book|author=Shahab Esfandiary|title=Iranian Cinema and Globalization: National, Transnational, and Islamic Dimensions|year=2012|publisher=Intellect Books|isbn=978-1-84150-470-4|pages=73–74}}
Favourite movies
- Vertigo | Alfred Hitchcock
- Saraband | Ingmar Bergman
- Army of Shadows | Jean-Pierre Melville
- The Wrong Man | Alfred Hitchcock
- Rio Bravo | Howard Hawks
- Detective Story | William Wyler
- The Quiet Man | John Ford
- Cries and Whispers | Ingmar Bergman
- Irma la Douce | Billy Wilder
- The Shop Around the Corner | Ernst Lubitsch
References
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- [http://www.massoudfarassati.com/showpage.php?pid=97 Biography in official website]
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Category:Mass media people from Tehran
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