Abbas Kiarostami

  • Abbas Kiarostami – Lebassi Baraye Arossi AKA Wedding Suit (1976)

    1971-1980Abbas KiarostamiArthouseDramaIran

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    لباسی برای عروسی

    A woman orders a suit from a tailor for her young son to wear to her sister’s wedding. The tailor’s apprentice, together with two other teenage boys who work in the same building, devise a plan to try on the suit at night to see what it feels like. Things get a little complicated but in the morning, at the last possible minute, they manage to return the suit to its proper place.Read More »

  • Abbas Kiarostami – Roads of Kiarostami (2006)

    2001-2010Abbas KiarostamiArthouseDocumentaryIran

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    جاده‌های کیارستمی

    Abbas Kiarostami has recently been exhibiting his black-and-white landscape photographs at venues around the world, and Roads of Kiarostami is both a companion piece to these exhibits and an extension of them. Static shots of his photos alternate with footage of Kiarostami’s car winding through mountain roads, as the Iranian filmmaker muses in voice-over on the significance of the journey and on the path of his work and Persian literature as a whole.Read More »

  • Abbas Kiarostami – Nema-ye Nazdik AKA Close-Up (1990)

    1981-1990Abbas KiarostamiArthouseDramaIran

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    Quote:
    In 1989 in Tehran, a movie mad unemployed printer named Ali Sabzian was arrested for impersonating the famous film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The family he had fooled was deep in rehearsals for his next “film” when they alerted authorities of their suspicions. “I loved playing that part,” confesses Sabzian in his trial. When the judge asks the Ahankah family if they will drop the charges in light of Sabzian’s apologies and explanations, one of the sons replies “I get the impression he’s still playing a role.”Read More »

  • Abbas Kiarostami – Be Tartib ya Bedoun-e Tartib AKA Orderly or Unorderly (1981)

    1981-1990Abbas KiarostamiIranShort Film

    SYNOPSIS:
    This film’s first shot shows students descending a staircase in a calm, orderly fashion. Its second portrays the same action as a chaotic rush. Separated by slates and Kiarostami’s voice intoning, “sound, camera,” subsequent sequences describe the same dichotomous behavior in a schoolyard, on a school bus, and in the haphazard traffic of Tehran. Kiarostami described this as “a truly educational film,” but it plays more like a quirky philosophic aside.Read More »

  • Abbas Kiarostami – No (2010)

    2001-2010Abbas KiarostamiFranceShort Film

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    IMDB:
    A little girl with beautiful hair. She loves movies and wants to become an actress. She is being told about the plot of a movie that she is going to play: “a friend is jealous about her hair and cuts it when she is asleep”. The girl rejects playing the role. Then she is then told that she can play the jealous girl but she again rejects the role. Written by Anonymous Read More »

  • Abbas Kiarostami – Like Someone in Love (2012)

    2001-20102011-2020Abbas KiarostamiArthouseJapan

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    Synopsis
    An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him her body. But the web that is woven between them in the space of twenty-four hours bears no relation to the circumstances of their encounter.
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    Reviews
    According to Martin Scorsese, “cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame, and what’s out.” The Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami applies this axiom with particular rigor. In the first scenes of Mr. Kiarostami’s latest feature, “Like Someone in Love,” we are very much aware of what is not in the frame. We are in a Tokyo bar, listening to a series of conversations that involve a woman we cannot see… he structure of the film is, by Mr. Kiarostami’s standards, fairly straightforward, even conventional: it has a teasing start, an expository middle and a startlingly (though not unpredictably) dramatic end. And yet every shot — everything you see, and everything you don’t — imparts a disturbing and thrilling sense of discovery.
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  • Abbas Kiarostami – Nan va Koocheh AKA The Bread and Alley (1970)

    1961-1970Abbas KiarostamiArthouseIranShort Film

    A playful boy heads for home after buying bread, only to find out the road is blocked by a frightening stray dog. As no passerby stops to offer assistance, it finally occurs to the boy to be friend the dog by throwing it a piece of bread. Kiarostami’s first film is a wordless, bittersweet classic. 1970, b&w, 10 minutes.Read More »

  • Abbas Kiarostami – Zire darakhatan zeyton aka Through the Olive Trees [+Extras] (1994)

    Drama1991-2000Abbas KiarostamiArthouseIran

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    A film director is making a movie in the Iranian countryside. He recruits local actors, but when shooting begins, a problem comes to light. His male lead, a young man named Hossein (playing himself), is madly in love with his fifteen-year old female co-star, Tahereh (playing herself). Because of Hossein’s illiteracy and homelessness, a marriage is impossible, at least from the perspective of Tahereh’s grandmother (who is also her guardian). Undaunted, the young man continues to pledge his undying love. For her part, Tahereh is busy studying for her exams and the last thing she wants is to engage in a conversation — any conversation — with the ardent suitor she wishes would go away.Read More »

  • Abbas Kiarostami – Mashgh-e Shab aka Homework (1989)

    1981-1990Abbas KiarostamiDocumentaryIran

    According to Kiarostami, “Homework” is not a film, but rather a filmed inquiry motivated by the Iranian educational problems his own children brought home every night from school. In the delightful result, young scholars are questioned on camera by Kiarostami himself: backs to the wall, framed in close-up, they face the camera and talk about excessive amounts of homework, the allure of TV cartoons, and the punishment that results from temptation.Read More »

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