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Jafar Panahi Freed – But For How Long?

UPDATE May 26: Jafar Panahi Freed! According to a report from the Associated Press, Iranian authorities have released Jafar Panahi. He’s been freed on $200,000 bail, but his troubles may not be over....

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Close-Up: Role Playing for Abbas Kiarostami

[parts of this were originally published in the Seattle Weekly, February 24, 1999] In 1989 in Tehran, a movie mad unemployed printer named Ali Sabzian was arrested for impersonating the famous film...

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Abbas Kiarostami’s ‘Koker Trilogy’

[Originally published, with minor differences, in Seattle Weekly in 1999] There are moments while watching a film by Abbas Kiarostami when I feel cinema being reinvented in front of my eyes. It’s a...

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DVD/Blu-ray: Abbas Kiarostami’s ‘Certified Copy’

The films of Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami have always explored the complex relationship of cinema to the world it reproduces and recreates in a frame. To quote a line from Certified Copy, “It’s our...

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Videophiled: ‘Like Someone in Love’

Like Someone in Love (Criterion, Blu-ray+DVD Combo, DVD) – After making his first dramatic feature outside of Iran with Certified Copy, a film shot in Italy with stars from France and England, Abbas...

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Videophiled Classic: ‘The Wind Will Carry Us’ at 15

We didn’t know it at the time but The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) was the end of a distinctive mode of cinematic engagement for Iran’s Abbas Kiarostami. He had won the Palm d’or at Cannes in 1997 for A...

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Video: Framing Pictures – July 2016

Film critics Bruce Reid, Richard T. Jameson, Kathleen Murphy, and Robert Horton debate and discuss the polarizing film The Neon Demon, the work of director Michael Cimino, and the unifying filmmaker...

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The View Beyond Parallax… more reads for the week of January 19

“My appreciation for his inspiring and innovative cinema grows deeper as the years go by. He had a unique vision in his films and in his artwork, that was deceptively simple yet hard to copy, like that...

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