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 ...

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 ...

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.

Helmer Abbas Kiarostami is prepping the working-titled “Horizontal Process,” his third consecutive pic shot outside his native Iran. “He is determined to work in Apulia in Italy; he loves ...

You wind up questioning everything. By Ben Kenigsberg The Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami is widely regarded as one of the great modern filmmakers, but if you discovered him at a particular peak ...

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 ...