Abbas Kiarostami was famous for pushing the boundaries of cinematic narrative in films like “Close-Up,” “Taste of Cherry,” and “Certified Copy,” among many other titles, so it’s only fitting that his ...

The Criterion Collection’s massively underrated Eclipse series returns after a far-too-long hiatus. The series, known for ...

One of cinema’s great masters, Abbas Kiarostami, whose pictures could be intimate and human-scaled while also self-reflexive and bracingly political, died today in Paris. The Palme D’Or winner — for ...

The Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, who died in Paris on Monday, was one of the most important figures in contemporary film. And like a lot of directors—whose jobs consist in large part of ...

Film experts Laurence Kardish and Godfrey Cheshire discuss how the Iranian director was serious about pursuing experimental work outside of cinema. Abbas Kiarostami had one of the most acclaimed ...

Writer/director Alireza Khatami's disquieting diptych gazes into the violent undoing of a Turkish literature professor with a ...

The story of a young boy, a loaf of bread, and a hungry dog launched a legendary career. Yesterday, legendary Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami died at the age of 76. The man behind such ...

Abbas Kiarostami, the greatest Iranian filmmaker, didn’t quite finish his final film, 24 Frames, before dying in July 2016. His son, Ahmad, supervised completion, ushering the film to its premiere at ...

“Certified Copy,” which opens this Friday (and which David Denby writes about in a Critic at Large piece available to subscribers), is the first dramatic feature that the Iranian director Abbas ...

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. Kiarostami ...

Homayoun Ershadi is dead. The Iranian star, who became world-famous for his role in "Der Geschmack der Kirsche", succumbed to ...