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.

When Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami died earlier this year, the outpouring of grief was a spectacle unmatched by any other from the film world in recent memory. Where the deaths of Jacques ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy, his first film shot outside of his native Iran, a middle-aged couple named James and, simply, “She” (William Shimell and Juliette Binoche) drive around ...

Abbas Kiarostami’s “The Wind Will Carry Us” is a film poem of sometimes humbling beauty: a movie that opens up a new world to us — in the mountains of Iranian Kurdistan — with an ...

The Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, who died yesterday at the age of seventy-six, was simply one of the most original and influential directors in the history of cinema. He achieved something ...

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 ...