Alright, I'll get you the second one, to which I'd respond: so what? But what the hell does the "homo" thing refer to?
Beside the point, maybe, but I guess I just want to turn the knife a few times before I withdraw the blade.
That was actually not Kiarostami you dug a knife into but rather a bag of old arguments which, upon being spilled open, you are now knee deep in.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 03:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Girolamo Savonarola, Wednesday, 10 September 2003 06:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 20:49 (twenty years ago) link
Seriously, though, stop getting hung up on "homo pomo", as un-PC as it may be (love to the gay people, yo!). It's just an old rhyming term that my friend and I use whenever postmodernism tries to be too clever or too meta to the point of it's own bloviating stupidity. Kiarostami may indeed be a genius, his meta-ending may indeed be something new and different within Iran, but I judge it to be (by the h-p standards subjective as they are) homo pomo in extremis.
Whoa.
― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 11 September 2003 01:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 11 September 2003 01:41 (twenty years ago) link
― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 23:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 18 September 2003 01:36 (twenty years ago) link
A Retro in Berkeley, can't wait. A few weeks ago I was telling my friend that after watching Apu by Satyajit Ray I simply had no desire to watch films for a while. Last week, thinking of other directors in the same vein as Ray I said thinking aloud "I bet Kiarostami has some films like that". Yesterday I found this quote:
"When Satyajit Ray passed on, I was very depressed. But after seeing Kiarostami's films, I thanked God for giving us just the right person to take his place."—Akira Kurosawa
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/abbas_kiarostami
― oscar, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 02:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Life and Nothing More is the most boring heap I have ever sat through. Bah.
― Stevie D, Friday, 20 July 2007 01:52 (sixteen years ago) link
well, you shd stay away from him, then.
― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 21 July 2007 16:05 (sixteen years ago) link
RIP:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jul/04/abbas-kiarostami-palme-dor-winning-iranian-film-maker-dies
"Cinema begins with D.W. Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami." - Jean-Luc Godard
― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 01:38 (seven years ago) link
Apologies, didn't see the other thread revive.
Still, what a loss.
― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 01:46 (seven years ago) link
totally unrelatedly, I had just downloaded Where Is The Friends Home in hopes of watching it tonight. RIP
― de l'asshole (flopson), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 01:53 (seven years ago) link