Kiarostami

ha, wow. right.

A fan's guide to Kiarostami by econ-blogger Tyler Cowen:

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/04/what-is-the-best-introduction-to-abbas-kiarostami-films.html

close up is one of my all-time favorite movies, and imo pretty incredible as a gesture of forgiveness from one human being to another.

i think that a new poll is in order, as long as we can get more than 4 people voting for these films.

Dead :https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2016/jul/04/abbas-kiarostami-master-of-cinematic-poetry-peter-bradshaw

fuck!

what a shitty fucken year eh

devastating

Ach. RIP

Fuck man, RIP.

The Academy invited him just days ago iirc. Should've done that decades earlier. Tragic loss.

kiarostami is the academy

:-(

Great lost, we need his light more than ever.

I would be down for a re-poll. I'm going to watch a 5-6 of his films in the coming week.

^^ Me too. Fire up that poll imho.

man what horrible news to come home to. usually when someone i admire dies in their 70s i'm okay with it, but Kiarostami was still relevant and making great films. a huge loss.

gonna fire up my Close-Up bluray now

thats very sad. wish i was able to see the full season that the BFI did on him but his films meant a lot to me.

link roundup

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-abbas-kiarostami-1940-2016

Godfrey Cheshire on knowing A.K. and his films:

http://www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-dash/godfrey-cheshire-on-knowing-abbas-kiarostami-through-his-films-and-friendship

good read.

This is sad:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jul/14/abbas-kiarostami-film-maker-death-sparks-debate-patient-right-be-informed-iran?CMP=share_btn_tw

I just watched And Life Goes On for the first time this week, wonderful.

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bf62d7777b4d9ffda443907cb517bad2c539a442/0_78_4096_2457/master/4096.jpg?w=620&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=52e9c6ebb9cafc559335f04e0281e026

what an incredible image.

can anyone think of other directors who might inspire (or have inspired) the same sort of reaction?

when ken loach dies, would anyone do this? im not even sure spielberg, a crowd pleaser, would get that.

spike lee might. but im struggling to think (though just cos im struggling, doesnt mean im right) of anyone else who had that connection to an audience.

That's more to do with the nature of funerals in the Middle East than with how much esteem a director is held in.

perhaps

Glenn Kenny on AK's last film and the van Heusen/Burke song (introduced by Dinah Shore in a forgotten 1944 flick) for which it's titled:

http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2016/07/hollywood-to-tehran-to-tokyo-the-journey-of-like-someone-in-love.html

Interview with his son: http://www.pardolive.ch/it/pardo/pardo-live/today-at-festival/2016/day-10/interview-ahmad-kiarostami.html Sounds like some of the forgotten stuff might be released more properly.

Glenn Kenny on AK's last film and the van Heusen/Burke song (introduced by Dinah Shore in a forgotten 1944 flick) for which it's titled:

http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2016/07/hollywood-to-tehran-to-tokyo-the-journey-of-like-someone-in-love.html

― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 July 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

A++

https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/season/mohsen-makhmalbaf-focus

Makhmalbaf focus looks fab

:D

Hope I make it to something.

I'm really getting into this guys work. For me his films are never boring, always compelling even if its grainy shots of a guy talking in close-up or someone just driving around. There's a lot of humanity, not in the sense of anything sentimental or "heart-warming". Although hes Godardian in some senses, he manages to keep a distance at the same time rather than push away the viewer

So many great scenes that linger in the memory - the main protagonist in "taste of cherry" being subsumed by the dust thrown up from the diggers, the motorbike ride at the end of "close-up", the repeated shots of the winding drive in "taste of cherry".

I didnt even mind the severe Brechtian ending of "Taste of Cherry". Usually, I detest those pomo turns but it was a lovely way to end the film imo.

Where Is the Friend's Home? is as tense and nail-biting a film as Rear Window.

Indeed

His last film 24 Frames (finished by others) has opened in NY. Godfrey Cheshire discusses with AK's son Ahmad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZIsVjDGjHY

It's getting a one-time free screening on Feb. 18th in Washington DC as part of the Freer/Sackler's Iranian Film Fest. It's very experimental, occasionally repetitive but worth seeing. The film is composed of an image of a 1565 Pieter Bruegel painting followed by 23 of Kiarostami’s own still photographs, to which he added subtle actions using computer technology

S & D: Iranian film

RIP Hossein Rezai

RIP Hossein Rezai (1978-2018) the (non)actor of Kiarostami's Through the Olive Trees. He died after a lung problem but his bigger problem was that he couldn't afford paying the £130 hospital bill. pic.twitter.com/2ap5zjZlIh

— Ehsan Khoshbakht (@EhsanKhoshbakht) February 21, 2018

That's so sad..

Apparently Ahmad said that Criterion would release all of Kiarostami's films in 2019? Not sure how seriously to take that, but if they do ...

https://d3p157427w54jq.cloudfront.net/uploads/2016/12/veins.gif

Same!

I'd settle for even just a Taste of Cherry upgrade tbh.

^ came here to post exactly that. watched it for the first time last night. so beautiful. Shocked that Ebert hated it so much.

Dear Me Of 21 Years Ago Who Didn’t Much Like TASTE OF CHERRY: You’re a fucking idiot.

— Mike D’Angelo (@gemko) April 27, 2018

I'll admit Close-Up left me completely cold, but seeing A Taste of Cherry has convinced me I need to try again. Other than that, what other films should I check out next?

I'm not the one to ask, since I'd say all of them. (I am sort of excited that I still have a number to see, too, including the entire Koker trilogy.)

what's your favorite (besides those two) ?

Certified Copy, without a doubt.

24 Frames didn't do much for me tbh

is there a reason why the taste of cherry guy appears to be picking up young guys for sex at the beginning? it was mentioned in ebert's review and i've never heard an explanation for it.