2025 was — and is still — supposed to be the year that the movies came roaring back from the various impediments that have thwarted them since the start of the decade (one pandemic, multiple strikes, ...

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He's published books on Orson Welles, Abbas Kiarostami, Erich von Stroheim ... What bothers me about 10-best lists is they're really kind of a form of promotion, which is doing it for the studios.

Sydney Film Festival has announced it will present JAFAR PANAHI: CINEMA IN REBELLION, a major retrospective of the acclaimed ...

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The legendary Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami once wryly remarked that he prefers “the films that put their audience to sleep in the theater.” Frequently taken out of context, Kiarostami ...

"[There's] This [Abbas] Kiarostami movie called Close-Up I love a lot," she said. Based on true events, the drama follows a man who impersonated Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf and conned his ...

In his two-hour Qumra masterclass, Salles referenced the influence of filmmakers including Michelangelo Antonioni, Abbas Kiarostami and Robert Redford – the latter of whom suggested that he ...