Abbas Kiarostami
Director · 1940 – 2016 · Tehran, Iran
Abbas Kiarostami (Persian: عباس کیارستمی [ʔæbˌbɒːs kijɒːɾostæˈmi] ; June 22, 1940 – July 4, 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active filmmaker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the Koker trilogy (1987–1994), Close-Up (1990), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), and Taste of Cherry (1997), which was awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year. In later works, Certified Copy (2010) and Like Someone in Love (2012), he filmed for the first time outside Iran: in Italy and Japan, respectively. His films Where Is the Friend's Home? (1987), Close-Up, and The Wind Will Carry Us were ranked among the 100 best foreign films in a 2018 critics' poll by BBC Culture. Close-Up was also ranked one of the 50 greatest movies of all time in the famous decennial Sight & Sound poll conducted in 2012. Kiarostami had worked extensively as a screenwriter, film editor, art director, and producer and had designed credit titles and publicity material. He was also a poet, photographer, painter, illustrator, and graphic designer. He was part of a generation of filmmakers in the Iranian New Wave, a Persian cinema movement that started in the late 1960s and emphasized the use of poetic dialogue and allegorical storytelling dealing with political and philosophical issues. Kiarostami had a reputation for using child protagonists, for documentary-style narrative films, for stories that take place in rural villages, and for conversations that unfold inside cars, using stationary mounted cameras. He is also known for his use of Persian poetry in the dialogue, titles, and themes of his films. Kiarostami's films contain a notable degree of ambiguity, an unusual mixture of simplicity and complexity, and often a mix of fictional and documentary elements. The concepts of change and continuity, in addition to the themes of life and death, play a major role in Kiarostami's works. Description above from the Wikipedia article Abbas Kiarostami, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies17
Movie8.0CrimeDramaThis fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.
Movie5.8DocumentaryEleven major film makers from Europe, America and Asia talk about Akira Kurosawa and discover surprising influences on their own work.
Movie7.4DramaWhen the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other.
Movie6.0DocumentaryFilmmaker José Luis Guerin documents his experience during a year of traveling as a guest of film festivals to present his previous film. What emerges is a wonderfully humane and sincere portrayal of the people that he meets when he goes off the beaten track in some of the world's major cities.
Guest
2011 · 8 votes
Movie4.8DocumentaryAbbas Kiarostami shoots a documentary about the AIDS crisis in Uganda.
ABC Africa
2001 · 25 votes
Movie6.4DocumentaryUsing the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, David Lynch, and Jonas Mekas, Oscar-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman shows what these filmmakers and others do that can't be expressed in words - but only in cinema.
What Is Cinema?
2013 · 25 votes
Movie7.5DocumentaryYoung male students at a local Iranian school are asked about their feelings on homework.
MovieDramaAcclaimed Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami, delivers a film workshop in Bogotá, the filmmakers conclude by proposing a short film in 10 days. Diego, one of the directors of the workshop, as scouting, meets a young shy librarian named Vida , who dreams of being an actress.
Vida
2014
Movie10.0ComedyAn Iranian filmmaker, a female taxi driver and a class a about cinema.
TropiAbbas
2005 · 1 votes
Movie4.8DocumentaryA look at the formation of the career of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami.
Movie6.3Documentary"10 on Ten" is a 2004 Iranian documentary film directed by Abbas Kiarostami. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. Looking to his own art for inspiration, Abbas Kiarostami reflects on his techniques of filming and how he taped certain sequences in "Ten" in 2001.
10 on Ten
2004 · 9 votes
Movie5.6DocumentaryU.S.-based film professor Jamsheed Akrami talks to Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami in an inpromptu video interview, which offers a frank and funny view of Kiarostami rarely seen before.
A Walk with Kiarostami
2003 · 5 votes
Movie7.5DocumentaryRelationships and multiple influences between two great directors of modern cinema.
Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondencias
Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences
2007 · 4 votes
Movie7.0DocumentaryA documentary about Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami first aired on the French television series Cinema de Notre Temps.
Movie6.0TV MovieDocumentaryThis documentary is featured on the two-disc Chaplin Collection DVD for "The Kid" (1921), released in 2004.
Chaplin Today: The Kid
2003 · 11 votes
Movie4.0Onstage interview with filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami and Richard Richard Peña
Movie7.7DocumentaryA documentary about the most important modern Iranian poet and intellectual icon. Iranian poet Ahmad Shamlou talks about his poetry, the world of poetry, and his life. Filmed over a two year period from 1996 to 1998.
Ahmad Shamlou: Master Poet of Liberty
1999 · 3 votes