In a surprise maneuver, master filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami announced after the completion of his gorgeous “The Wind Will Carry Us” in 2000 that he was joining the DV revolution and would hang up his ...

Ideas such as identity as an illusion and journey as a means of devotion appear throughout much of Kiarostami’s work. In his finest film, 1997’s devastatingly simple but mesmerizing Taste of Cherry, ...

Ahmad Kiarostami visits Asia Society to present his father Abbas's famous Koker Trilogy as part of our ongoing classics series Films to See Before You Die. Abbas Kiarostami first came to international ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In January, New York’s IFC Center will host a timely new retrospective, “Panahi & Kiarostami: Two Masters,” as IndieWire announces ...

What will be your first movie of 2023? If you’re reading this it’s likely you put some (let’s be honest: too much) thought into what commences the cinematic year. The Criterion Channel’s January ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, whose 1997 film “Taste of Cherry” won the prestigious Palme d’Or and who kept working despite government resistance, died Monday. He was 76. Iran ...

The Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami was 76 years old when he died, and his last feature was 2012’s Like Someone in Love — so why does it feel like he’s been taken away from us at a moment of such ...

One of the ironies of the use of special effects in movies is their literal-mindedness: That is, by pouring millions of dollars into computer-generated imagery, film producers try to bludgeon us into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The home of late Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami was heavily damaged in an overnight airstrike on Tehran, according to an ...