Abbas Kiarostami

by Saeed-Vafa, Mehrnaz

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Title Statements

Full title :Abbas Kiarostami / Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and Jonathan Rosenbaum.

Summary

Before his death in 2016, Abbas Kiarostami wrote or directed more than thirty films in a career that mirrored Iranian cinema's rise as an international force. His 1997 feature Taste of Cherry made him the first Iranian filmmaker to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Critics' polls continue to place Close-Up (1990) and Through the Olive Trees (1994) among the masterpieces of world cinema. Yet Kiarostami's naturalistic impulses and winding complexity made him one of the most divisive-if influential-filmmakers of his time. In this expanded second edition, award-winning Iranian filmmaker Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum renew their illuminating cross-cultural dialogue on Kiarostami's work. The pair chart the filmmaker's late-in-life turn toward art galleries, museums, still photography, and installations. They also bring their distinct but complementary perspectives to a new conversation on the experimental film Shirin. Finally, Rosenbaum offers an essay on watching Kiarostami at home while Saeed-Vafa conducts a deeply personal interview with the director on his career and his final feature, Like Someone in Love. Book jacket.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2018
Edition:Expanded second edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Illinois Press
Place of Publication:Urbana
Language:eng
Publication Date:2018

The Physical Object

Description:ix, 196 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780252083518, 0252083512
oclc:on1003854886
LC Classification:PN1998.3.K58
Dewey Decimal:791.4302/33092

Abbas Kiarostami / Jonathan Rosenbaum -- Abbas Kiarostami / Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa -- A dialogue between the authors -- Interviews with Abbas Kiarostami -- A dialogue about Shirin -- New dialogue: fifteen years later -- Watching Kiarostami films at home / Jonathan Rosenbaum -- Reflections on Like someone in love / Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa.