Abbas Kiarostami Archives

The 6 Best Movies To Buy Or Stream This Week: ‘Marriage Story,’ ‘The Assistant’ & More

July 21, 2020 1:59 pm

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a spl...

Juliette Binoche Talks Working With Godard, Kiarostami, Kieslowski & More In Career-Spanning Macao Festival Conversation

Jason Bailey

December 12, 2019 11:07 am

News

MACAO, CHINA - “If you're too much in the head, if you decide things, it cuts you off - because acting is not about thinking,” Juliette Binoche declared. “It's about giving, giving all the layers inside you.” ...

Abbas Kiarostami’s ‘Koker Trilogy’ & Jane Campion’s ‘An Angel At My Table’ Highlight Criterion’s August Releases

Charles Barfield

May 17, 2019 2:52 pm

News

It’s that time again, film fans. Another month goes by and we’re back telling you what’s coming in August from the Criterion Collection. And like every month, our wallets weep. August sees the release of the cr...

’24 Frames’ Is The Final, Major Work From The Great Abbas Kiarostami [Cannes Review]

Bradley Warren

May 23, 2017 11:45 am

News, Reviews

On July 4th, 2016, cinema lost one of its living legends in Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami. For its 70th edition, the Cannes Film Festival rolled out the red carpet for the director’s posthumous final work,...

Supercut Tribute To Abbas Kiarostami Celebrates The Life Inside His Films

Kevin Jagernauth

July 5, 2016 3:09 pm

News

The tributes, remembrances and best-of lists continue to roll in for the late, great Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, who passed away over the holiday weekend. And while he is deserving of every bit of ink s...

The Essentials: Abbas Kiarostami’s Best Films

Christopher Bell

July 5, 2016 11:24 am

Features

An awful year got worse yesterday with the announcement that Abbas Kiarostami, the great Iranian filmmaker, had passed away at the age of 76. Emerging as a leading light of the Iranian New Wave in the 1970s, Ki...

R.I.P. Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016)

Kevin Jagernauth

July 4, 2016 6:21 pm

News

Even as we're still processing the death of Michael Cimino, 2016 has taken another great filmmaker from us: Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami has passed away at the age of 76. "Kiarostami represents the high...

Abbas Kiarostami’s Next Film Is ’24 Frames’

Will Ashton

May 16, 2016 4:45 pm

News

It’s been a full four years since writer/director Abbas Kiarostami premiered his last film, “Like Someone in Love,” in Competition at Cannes. So it’s only appropriate, then, for his next project to be announced...

Abbas Kiarostami Talks His Upcoming Feature Set In China, Short Film Project, And More At The Marrakech Film Festival

Katie Walsh

December 12, 2015 9:22 pm

Interviews

There’s no other way to put it: Abbas Kiarostami is just a stone cold badass. The godfather of the Iranian New Wave only sleeps four hours a night, publishes two to three books of poetry a year, and he’s just o...

Directors: Eli Roth Preps Carbon Copy Of ‘Cabin Fever,’ Abbas Kiarostami Making Movie In China And More

Kevin Jagernauth

October 21, 2014 12:38 pm

News

Directors: Eli Roth Preps Carbon Copy Of 'Cabin Fever,' Abbas Kiarostami Making Movie In China And More

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