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Dariush Mehrju'i ((ペルシア語: داریوش مهرجویی ), born in 8 December 1939 in Tehran,also spelled as ''Mehrjui'', ''Mehrjoui'', and ''Mehrjuyi'', is an Iranian director, screenwriter, producer, and film editor.〔(MIFF 1999 Schedule (MIFF 2) )〕 Mehrjui was a founding member of the Iranian New Wave movement of the early 1970s. His second film, ''Gaav'' is considered to be the first film of this movement, which also included Masoud Kimiai and Nasser Taqvai. Most of his films are inspired by literature and adapted from Iranian and foreign novels and plays. ==Early life and education== Dariush Mehrjui was born to a middle-class family in Tehran. He showed interest in painting miniatures, music, and playing santoor and piano. He spent a lot of time going to the movies, particularly American films which were un-dubbed and inter-spliced with explanatory title cards that explained the plot throughout the films. At this time Mehrjui started to learn English so as to better enjoy the films. The film that had the strongest impact on him as a child was Vittorio De Sica's ''Bicycle Thieves''. At the age of 12, Mehrjui built a 35 mm projector, rented two-reel films and began selling tickets to his neighborhood friends.〔Wakeman, John. World Film Directors, Volume 2. The H. W. Wilson Company. 1988. 663-669.〕 Although raised in a religious household, Mehrjui said that, at the age of 15, "The face of God gradually became a little hazy for me, and I lost my faith."〔 In 1959, Mehrjui moved to the United States to study at University of California, Los Angeles' (UCLA) Department of Cinema. One of his teachers there was Jean Renoir, whom Mehrjui credited for teaching him how to work with actors. Mehrjui was dissatisfied with the film program due to its emphasis on the technical aspects of film and the quality of most of the teachers. Mehrjui has said of his educators, "They wouldn't teach you anything very significant...because the teachers were the kind of people who had not been able to make it in Hollywood themselves...(would ) bring the rotten atmosphere of Hollywood to the class and impose it on us."〔 He switched his major to philosophy and graduated from UCLA in 1964.〔(Iran Chamber Society: Iranian Cinema: Dariush Mehrjui )〕 Mehrjui started his own literary magazine in 1964, ''Pars Review''. The magazine's intention was to bring contemporary Persian literature to western readers. During this time he wrote his first script with the intention of filming it in Iran. He moved back to Tehran in 1965.〔 Back in Tehran, Mehrjui found employment as a journalist and screenwriter.〔 From 1966 to 1968 he was a teacher at Tehran's Center for Foreign Language Studies, where he taught classes in literature and English language. He also gave lectures on films and literature at the Center for Audiovisual Studies through the University of Tehran.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dariush Mehrjui」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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