Rankin avoids all expectations and goes for a visual and narrative approach that is constantly unexpected and dizzyingly ...

Despite being set in a parallel-universe Winnipeg where the people talk in Farsi and the world around them seems as if it's been frozen in time since the mid-1980s (when Abbas Kiarostami ...

If David Lynch ever had tea with Abbas Kiarostami in a Winnipeg Tim Hortons redesigned by Wes Anderson, the resulting fever ...

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, ...

Kiarostami might’ve had a word or two to say about Alex Garland, whose latest vision of American dystopia is uncharacteristically situated in our real-life and immediate past.

Below are several accounts: Armen Sarvar (Iran/Armenia): “The first time Kiarostami started speaking I could feel a very pleasant balance between daily Persian and poetic Persian which I had only read ...

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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 ...

Through an interview with Kiarostami in the Aran Islands and interviews with film critics and scholars at Cannes, the director examines Kiarostami's themes and methods. The director also profiles ...