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Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami Movie Reviews
Blog Posts That Mention Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami, the Filmmaker and the Man: an Interview with Godfrey Cheshire
A One-of-a-Kind Artist: The RogerEbert.com Staff Remembers Abbas Kiarostami
Godfrey Cheshire on Knowing Abbas Kiarostami Through His Films and Friendship
A Slice of Life: Abbas Kiarostami 1940-2016
Panahi & Kiarostami: Two Masters
Book Excerpt: In the Time of Kiarostami: Writings on Iranian Cinema by Godfrey Cheshire
Book Excerpt: Conversations with Kiarostami by Godfrey Cheshire
Video Q&A with Ahmad Kiarostami
Arthouse suspense: My month with Abbas and Joe
Cannes 2017: “24 Frames,” “Rodin,” “Radiance”
Love under stormy skies
If it’s springtime, it must be Cannes
Iranian filmmakers take center stage
Moviegoers who feel too much
Certified Copy: How can you be in two spaces at once…?
Cannes & Cannes-not: On being a movie geek
Who matters?
Tex Avery: Escape from Alka-Fizz
(Kar-) Wai, Oh Why?
Iranian director Jafar Pahani begins prison hunger strike (UPDATED)
But didn’t they just now meet?
Cannes 2026: Elephants in the Fog, Yesterday, The Eye Didn’t Sleep, A Girl’s Story
Sundance 2026: Chasing Summer, Frank & Louis, The Friend’s House is Here, Run Amok
NYFF 2025: The 63rd Edition Comes to a Close
The 20 Best Films of 2025 So Far
Home Entertainment Guide May 2025: Better Man, Black Bag, Mickey 17, More
Cannes 2025: The President’s Cake, Death Does Not Exist, Peak Everything
In the Name of Friendship: Matthew Rankin on “Universal Language”
Cannes 2024: The Seed of the Sacred Fig, All We Imagine as Light, The Most Precious of Cargoes
9 Underrated Romantic Movies for Valentine’s Day This Year
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Erige Sehiri on Under the Fig Trees
A Preview of the 2024 Iranian Film Festival New York
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Noora Niasari on Shayda
A Shocking Loss: Dariush Mehrjui (1939-2023)
MOMA Launches Iranian Cinema Before the Revolution, 1925-1979
The Ten Best Films of 2022
NYFF 2022: No Bears, R.M.N., All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
NYFF 2021: Hit the Road, Unclenching the Fists, The Girl and the Spider
Book Excerpt: Subjective realities: The art of creative nonfiction film
The Show Must Go On: The Cannes 2021 Film Festival
Meet the Writers: Roxana Hadadi
No Easy Answers: Ramin Bahrani on The White Tiger
Gang of Three: A Conversation with Godfrey Cheshire, Matt Zoller Seitz, and Armond White
Home Entertainment Guide: July 23, 2020
Kamran Heidari on Ali Aqa, His Approach to Documentary Filmmaking and More
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: January 10, 2018
The 2019 Iranian Film Festival
Simon Abrams’ Top Ten Films of 2018
Cannes 2018: 3 Faces, Happy as Lazzaro
The Unloved, Part 46: The Mangler
New York Film Festival 2017 Preview
A worthy cause: Godfrey Cheshire’s book on Iranian Cinema
Mimicking Being a Human Being: Michael Cera on “Person to Person” and “Lemon”
Cannes 2017: Palme d’Or predictions
CIFF 2016: “Sieranevada,” “Olli Mäki” are Festival Favorities
Thumbnails 5/24/16
“La Dolce Vita” No More: On The Current State of Foreign-Language Film Distribution
A Living Cinematic Organism: Stephen Cone on “Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party”
Who’s Who In Reviews: Godfrey Cheshire
“Goodbye Solo”
Book Excerpt: “Asghar Farhadi: Life and Cinema” by Tina Hassannia
Meet the Writers: Godfrey Cheshire
Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project
Traditions of Quality: Mark Cousins’ “The Story of Film: An Odyssey”
Am I Blue?: Cannes Report, May 22
My Ten Greatest Movies
Rosenbaum replies to Tavernier
I’ll tell you why movie revenue is dropping…
And the Palme d’Whiskers goes to…
A taste of lemon, a whiff of ash…
A letter from Chaz
Sensitivity training: the fallacy of feelings
Bergman and Antonioni: Commercial moviemakers
My First 2011 “Ten Best” List
The Return of the Autobiographical Dictionary of Film
Greatest Films of All Time: Where’s the funny?
The Stepford Critics?
Name That Director!
Richard Leacock (1911-2011): “Screw the tripod!”
Cannes #1: On a darkling plain
Who do you read? Good Roger, or Bad Roger?
CIFF 2010: Our capsule reviews
I’m a proud Brainiac
CIFF 2012 puts the ‘Chicago’ in film fest
CIFF: Viruses, sex surrogates and Room 237
Take 46: CIFF brings the world of film to town
The business of controversy
Toronto fest signals the opening of Good Movie Season
Cannes winners a strange crew
Chicago Film Festival Celebrates 30 Years
Fighting over Bergman’s legacy
Let the right one in, but with the wrong subtitles
