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Name: Payam Emrani
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Email: pemrani@socal.rr.com

Bio: Payam Emrani is a contributing Critic for Film School Rejects. He is a poet. No one, however, pays poets; instead, he writes reviews like this to earn a living. Actually, he doesn’t earn a living writing reviews like this. Mostly, his immense talents and perceptions about the world around him are wasted on pitch letters and emails to editors who never bother reading them.


Posts by Payam Emrani:

AFI Film Fest - Nov. 1 - 12

AFI Film Fest - Nov. 1 - 12

Being a film critic in Los Angeles two things are for certain: you are jaded and you are burnt-out. You write so many negative reviews that the venom seeps into your soul until you can no longer recognize yourself. The last time you saw Originality was; well hell it was a long, long time ago.

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<i>Hollywoodland</i> Vs. <i>Citizen Kane</i>

Hollywoodland Vs. Citizen Kane

In this post-modern world of ours it is easy to get lost. With no past to cling to, we are often lured by the siren song of the future. Hollywoodland reminds us of our film past. It takes us back to a world before digital technology and special effects ran amok; before George Lucas threw […]

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