The film begins like an authentic epic narrative film, with opening titles that are traditional illustrations of ... began by saying, “Abbas Kiarostami has the widest octave range of any ...

Abbas Kiarostami, an Iranian director whose 1997 film “Taste of Cherry” won the top award at the Cannes Film Festival and who kept making movies with sophisticated themes despite facing ...

The late Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami often talked about the audience "completing" his movies, which of course implies that he left his work deliberately incomplete, as if to tease the imagination.

The phrase “deceptively simple” could have been invented to describe the films of Abbas Kiarostami, the Iranian director who died in Paris today at the age of 76 after a battle with cancer.

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 ...

The nearly complete retrospective of the films of the late Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, which runs through August 15th at IFC Center and will travel nationwide, is an extraordinary event.

Abbas Kiarostami, Iran’s best-known filmmaker, died Monday, July 4. He was 76. In recent months, Kiarostami had undergone a number of surgeries. ADVERTISEMENT Kiarostami was the winner of some ...

A new film from the gifted Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami would be a treat at Cannes under any circumstances — but Kiarostami’s death last July at the age of 76 added a particular resonance ...

CANNES — Abbas Kiarostami, the Palme d’Or winner in 1997 for “A Taste of Cherry,” shot “Certified Copy,” which is in competition here, last June during the heat of Iran’s political ...

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