| Hamid Reza Sadr | |
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| Born | March 19, 1956 Mashhad, Iran |
| Occupation | Film critic, Film historian, Football critic, and Urban Planning Engineer |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Subjects | Film, football |
Hamid Reza Sadr حمیدرضا صدر born 19 March 1956, is an Iranian film critic. He is well known for his columns in Film Magazine and Haft Magazine on cinema.
He married Mehrzad Dolati in 1983. She is an artist who studied in the United States and then came to Iran and went to Tehran University. She has been teaching painting for many years. They have a daughter, Ghazaleh, born in 1990. She studies at Shahid Beheshti University for getting her BA in English Literature. He currently lives in Tehran, Iran and lectures in different Iranian and European universities besides his professional engineering work. He is mainly working on new books.
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He entered Tehran University in 1974 and gained BA in Economics, and MA in Urban Planning in Faculty of Fine Arts, Tehran University. His thesis title was Location Modeling of Persian Gulf Cities.And he got his PhD in Urban Planning from Leeds University.
Sadr's movie reviews are published in many Iranian journals since 1981 including Zan-e Rooz, Soroush, Film Magazine, Film International, and Haft magazine. Sadr has explained his critical approach to films as "relative, not unconditional"; he analysis a film for what he feels will be its likely audience, yet he usually approaches movies emotionally, with a strongly touching writing style. He was especially cruel to some films that had been roasted by many critics, such as Bahram Beizai and Masoud Kimiai films. The originality of his opinions, as well as the vigorous way in which he spoken them, won his eager supporters as well as angry critics.'
He translated "From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies", the influential book by Molly Haskell which published in Zan-e Rooz magazine.
He has written a book on politics and Iranian cinema, called Iranian Cinema: A Political History.[1] The comprehensive analysis provided in this book gives refreshing, up-to-date introduction to those interested in Iranian cinema and its socio-political dimensions and history, observing recurrent themes and genres as well as giving lights to lesser-known thematic concerns and figures. Sadr, while acknowledging the lack of imaginative expression in mainstream Iranian cinema: the weak scripts, the poor performances, the repetitive and conservative nature and content and poor performances, argues for and analysis the political contexts and its constant shifts embedded within the apparently least noteworthy of Iranian films.
Sadr was known for his monthly column called "Shadow of Imagination" {سایه خیال} appearing in Film Magazine and his reports on international film festival particularly on London Film Festival. He interviewed many famous actors, directors and film critics including: Anthony Hopkins, Peter O'Toole, Mike Leigh, Jim Jarmusch, Carlos Saura, Andrei Konchalovsky, Peter Wollen, Laura Mulvey, Jeffrey Noel Smith, John Gillett, Sohrab Shahid-Sales and Farokh Ghafari.
He is a co-producer of Looking for Scheherazade movie, a documentary directed by Safi Yazdanian in 2003.
He is a football lover and has written several features on sociology, politics and football. His book Once Upon a Time Football is about politics and football but it also tells the story of the Sadr's relationship with football and sometimes relates them to his own personal life.
Sadr's books included: