Tuesday, May 22 2012
Cannes 2012: Day 5 - ‘Amour’ + ‘In Another Country’ + ‘Like Someone in Love’
Day five witnesses a trio of films from some of the artform's leading lights: Michael Haneke returns with Amour, Hong Sang-soo competes with In Another Country, and the incomparable Abbas Kiarostami produces a new masterwork.
Monday, August 15 2011
The 100 Essential Directors Part 5: Derek Jarman to Mike Leigh
Mid-way through our series, Day 5 is a glorious mishmash of international auteurist cinema. Today we go from saints and sinners, from Brookyln to Britain, from the beginning of time to the Dystopian future, and around the world and beyond.
Thursday, September 24 2009
The Fish Fall in Love
A charming but confounding Iranian anti-romance based on the story of Scheherazade -- but with cookery substituting for storytelling.
Tuesday, July 21 2009
Abbas Kiarostami’s ‘Shirin’
A delightful, experimental discovery from the master of Iranian cinema...
Monday, January 14 2008
The Ten
A high-speed collision between Krzysztof Kieślowski's Dekalog and Woody Allen’s Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex.
Thursday, May 22 2003
Ten (2002)
Abbas Kiarostami has made a career of demolishing our complacency as viewers, blurring the divides between fiction and documentary, spectator and screen.
