In a surprise maneuver, master filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami announced after the completion of his gorgeous “The Wind Will Carry Us” in 2000 that he was joining the DV revolution and would hang up his ...

Abbas Kiarostami’s recent features satisfy few of the usual expectations about narrative films. Yet in 10 on Ten–a documentary about his most recent feature, 10, showing twice this week at the Gene ...

After World War II, Italy’s infrastructure was in such ruins that its filmmakers adopted an entirely new approach to their work. They no longer had studios and sets, so they took their cameras into ...

Abbas Kiarostami, the greatest Iranian filmmaker, didn’t quite finish his final film, 24 Frames, before dying in July 2016. His son, Ahmad, supervised completion, ushering the film to its premiere at ...

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When Abbas Kiarostami died on July 4th at the age of 76, people who in any small way loved the man’s work became, as is often the case in the wake of the passing of any iconic artist, suddenly aware ...

When Indian director Satyajit Ray died in 1992, Akira Kurosawa praised him as “the greatest social realist filmmaker who ever lived.” But when Kurosawa saw Abbas Kiarostami’s “Through the Olive Trees” ...

If you know the name of one Iranian filmmaker, chances are it is that of Abbas Kiarostami - he of the humane vistas, the delicate (and sometimes indelicate) probing of private life in Iran. In a ...

Abbas Kiarostami was famous for pushing the boundaries of cinematic narrative in films like “Close-Up,” “Taste of Cherry,” and “Certified Copy,” among many other titles, so it’s only fitting that his ...

Losing any great filmmaker hurts, but the death of Abbas Kiarostami 18 months ago hit particularly hard. It wasn’t just that he was still doing great work nearly five decades into an illustrious ...

The Iranian director's 1997 film 'Taste of Cherry' won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival. By The Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, whose 1997 film Taste ...