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Abbas Kiarostami |
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Director / Screenwriter /
Editor / Producer / Cinematographer |
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| Born June 22, Teheran, Iran |
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Key
Production Countries: Iran, France |
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Key Genres:
Drama, Docudrama,
Avant-garde/Experimental |
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Key
Collaborators: Marin Karmitz (Producer), Ali
Reza Zarrin (Producer), Farhad Kheradmand
(Leading Player), Homayun Payvar (Cinematographer), Farhad Saba
(Cinematographer), Ali Reza Zarrindast (Cinematographer), Kheda Barech
Defai (Character Player), Ahmed Ahmed Poor (Character Player), Babek
Ahmed Poor (Character Player), Peyman Yazdanian (Composer) |
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Highly Recommended:
A Taste of
Cherry (1997)*, The Wind Will Carry Us
(1999)* |
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Recommended:
Where is the Friend's Home? (1987)*, Homework (1989), Close-Up (1990)*,
And Life Goes On... (1992)*, Through the Olive
Trees (1994)*, Ten (2002)^, Certified Copy (2009)^ |
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Worth a Look: The
Traveller (1974), The Wedding Suit (1976), The Report (1977), Five Dedicated to Ozu (2003),
Shirin (2008) |
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Approach with Caution:
Orderly or Disorderly (1981), Tickets (2005) [co-directed by
Ken Loach &
Ermanno Olmi],
Roads of Kiarostami (2006) |
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* Listed in TSPDT's
1,000 Greatest Films
section; ^
Listed in TSPDT's
21st Century's Most
Acclaimed Films
section. |
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Links:
[
Amazon
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IMDB ] [
TCMDB ] [
All-Movie
Guide ] [
Senses
of Cinema: Great Directors ] [
Film Reference ]
[
Strictly
Film School ] [
Wikipedia ] [
Iranian Movies.com ] [
Rouge
Article (2006) ] [
Time Out Article (2010)
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Books:
[
Abbas
Kiarostami (Contemporary Film Directors) ] [
Walking
with the Wind ] [
Abbas Kiarostami ] [
The Cinema Of Abbas Kiarostami ] |
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"The
fact that Iranian cinema is considered one of the best in the
world is mainly due to Abbas Kiarostami, whose films play
brilliantly with audiences' perceptions of cinema...Although
Kiarostami has said, "I don't invent material. I just watch and
take it from the daily life of people around me, " his realism
is carefully constructed."
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Ronald Bergan (Film - Eyewitness Companions, 2006) |
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"Kiarostami
studied fine art and worked as a graphic designer before making
his directorial debut with The Bread and the Alley
(1970). A key figure in Iranian film-making, he eschews
conventional narrative and professional actors to offer
deceptively simple poetic reflections on everyday life and death
in his country.." -
(Chambers Film Factfinder, 2006) |
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"The
films of Iranian master Kiarostami, while succeeding partly as
oblique but illuminating reflections of his country's recent
history, occupy a more fertile territory somewhere between
documentary and self-reflexive, modernist drama...Kiarostami's
humane compassion for his characters shines bright, his simple
compositions and stories and long takes a mark of deep respect
for their quiet integrity and strength of spirit." -
Geoff
Andrew (The Director's Vision, 1999)
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Please
note that the rating given for this director (see top-right) is based
only on the films we have seen (listed above). Films by this director
that we haven't seen include Two Solutions for One Problem (1975) and Fellow Citizen (1983). |
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