The films of Abbas Kiarostami.

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No, please. Pardon me. You still haven't explained the "homo" thing.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 20:49 (twenty years ago) link

"It's slang...ya know...he's American...it's a facking donut!"

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

FIne. This homo loves pomo. But he can also handle subjectivity. He agrees with amateurist. He'll stop talking in the third person some other time.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 11 September 2003 01:41 (twenty years ago) link

i liked the ending but clearly the best thing about it was the extensive use of long shot

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 23:04 (twenty years ago) link

I'll definitely give you that. I also liked the process that he used to actually get the passenger footage. But all that aside...um...well...I don't have anything to say on the other side of this ellipsis.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 18 September 2003 01:36 (twenty years ago) link

three years pass...

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

eight years pass...

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

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