Business Times Asiaone (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
IRANIAN-BORN Marjane Satrapi, better known as the writer and director of Persepolis, once said of her animation feature: 'I wanted (to use the film) help people see the Iranians as human beings like other people.'
New York Times (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
I'm happy to see that Sony has just released the DVD of Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis," based on Satrapi's two-volume comic-book memoir of her experiences growing up in revolutionary Iran. If you're among the many millions who failed to see the film, this is your chance. Watching the presentation of the Academy Award [...].
Whisky Prajer (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
I see that Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis is now available on DVD. This is the only "grown-up" movie my wife and I made it out to see last year. I can't imagine another movie taking hold of my imagination more completely, or provoking feelings nearly as deep and conflicted. In my attempt to come up with something unique to say about this unusual movie, I paged back in my journal to see what my first...
A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Not sure if I get the headline, but yesterday’s Dublin (Ireland) Sunday Tribune had a nice piece about the new comics journalism. Besides the usual suspects like Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, Joe Sacco’s Safe Area Gorazde, and Art Spiegelman’s Maus, reporter Patrick Freyne covers A.D., Coco Wang’s China 5.12 tales, and Tedd Rall’s To Afghanistan and [...]
Sporadic Sequential (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
My wife and I watched Persepolis on DVD this weekend and I feel safe in proclaiming this The Best Comic Book Movie of All Time , Forever and Ever, Amen. It's faithful to the original books without being a slavish frame-by-frame recreation . Creator Marjane Satrapi and co-director Vincent Paronnaud wisely take advantage of the animated format to recast certain scenes, eliminate others entirely, and...
reviews from a netflix addict (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
Rating: A Animated movie that depics the life of Marjane Satrapi's life from her childhood in Iran during the Islamic Revolution to her adulthood in Europe. This is a beautiful movie. A must-see. Technorati Tags: Persepolis , Marjane Satrapi
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Blu-Ray News: Optimum Home Entertainment have announced the UK Blu-ray Disc release of Persepolis on 18th August 2008 priced at £24.99. Based on the graphic novel about her own experiences writer and director Marjane Satrapi draws a poignant story about a young gi...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
News: Optimum Home Entertainment have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of Persepolis on 18th August 2008 priced at £17.99. Based on the graphic novel about her own experiences writer and director Marjane Satrapi draws a poignant story about a young gi...
DesiPundit (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Jai Arjun reviews Persepolis as the movie, adapted from the graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi, opens in select theatres across India. Satrapi has done a fine job of transferring her drawings and script to another medium, but a word of caution for viewers whose expectations may have been heightened by the advances in movie animation: [...]
Jabberwock (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
The movie version of Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis is playing in a couple of theatres in the city, including the PVR in Saket’s Select Mall and the pointlessly named PVR-Europa in Gurgaon. (I think Europa was originally meant to screen non-mainstream European films, but those plans were quickly discarded.) I saw the film last week and enjoyed it. It’s a joint adaptation of Persepolis:...
Film Junk (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Hitting stores this week we have the animated movie that gave Ratatouille a run for its money at the Oscars, Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, based on the graphic novel about a young rebellious girl living in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Also out this week is the fantastical The Spiderwick Chronicles, Roland Emmerich’s 10,000 B.C., and [...]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
A memoir in the form of an animated feature, "Persepolis," adapted by Marjane Satrapi from her acclaimed graphic novels, is a remembrance told not with anger but disappointment.
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
As much as I enjoyed Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis, I was surprised how the animated film adaptation remained true to the book. Satrapi co-wrote and co-directed the film, and has produced one of the most amazing movies of...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
The window comes with blinkers. Directors Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud take us to Iran in the tumultuous 1970s when the country was in a social and political ferment. A corrupt, pliant monarchy gave way to an Islamic Revolution which, ...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
The window comes with blinkers. Directors Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud take us to Iran in the tumultuous 1970s when the country was in a social and political ferment. A corrupt, pliant monarchy gave way to an Islamic Revolution which, ...
