Blog Posts That Mention Kiarostami
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2026: Elephants in the Fog, Yesterday, The Eye Didn’t Sleep, A Girl’s Story
May 25, 2026
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2026: Chasing Summer, Frank & Louis, The Friend’s House is Here, Run Amok
January 30, 2026
Features
Panahi & Kiarostami: Two Masters
December 31, 2025
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2025: The 63rd Edition Comes to a Close
October 13, 2025
Features
The 20 Best Films of 2025 So Far
June 12, 2025
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide May 2025: Better Man, Black Bag, Mickey 17, More
May 30, 2025
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2025: The President’s Cake, Death Does Not Exist, Peak Everything
May 25, 2025
Interviews
In the Name of Friendship: Matthew Rankin on “Universal Language”
February 11, 2025
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2024: The Seed of the Sacred Fig, All We Imagine as Light, The Most Precious of Cargoes
May 24, 2024
Features
9 Underrated Romantic Movies for Valentine’s Day This Year
February 12, 2024
Interviews
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Erige Sehiri on Under the Fig Trees
February 6, 2024
Festivals & Awards
A Preview of the 2024 Iranian Film Festival New York
January 24, 2024
Interviews
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Noora Niasari on Shayda
December 6, 2023
Tributes
A Shocking Loss: Dariush Mehrjui (1939-2023)
October 16, 2023
Features
MOMA Launches Iranian Cinema Before the Revolution, 1925-1979
October 12, 2023
Features
Book Excerpt: In the Time of Kiarostami: Writings on Iranian Cinema by Godfrey Cheshire
January 12, 2023
Features
The Ten Best Films of 2022
December 12, 2022
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2022: No Bears, R.M.N., All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
October 9, 2022
Interviews
Stare at the Flame: Jane Schoenbrun on We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
April 15, 2022
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2021: Closing Thoughts
October 10, 2021
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2021: Hit the Road, Unclenching the Fists, The Girl and the Spider
October 6, 2021
Features
Book Excerpt: Subjective realities: The art of creative nonfiction film
August 19, 2021
Festivals & Awards
The Show Must Go On: The Cannes 2021 Film Festival
June 5, 2021
Chaz's Journal
Meet the Writers: Roxana Hadadi
March 7, 2021
Interviews
No Easy Answers: Ramin Bahrani on The White Tiger
January 27, 2021
Interviews
Gang of Three: A Conversation with Godfrey Cheshire, Matt Zoller Seitz, and Armond White
October 4, 2020
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: July 23, 2020
July 21, 2020
MZS
Abbas Kiarostami, the Filmmaker and the Man: an Interview with Godfrey Cheshire
July 26, 2019
Features
Book Excerpt: Conversations with Kiarostami by Godfrey Cheshire
July 21, 2019
Interviews
Kamran Heidari on Ali Aqa, His Approach to Documentary Filmmaking and More
April 1, 2019
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: January 10, 2018
January 9, 2019
Festivals & Awards
The 2019 Iranian Film Festival
January 9, 2019
Features
Simon Abrams’ Top Ten Films of 2018
December 10, 2018
Features
The 4-Star Reviews of 2018
November 28, 2018
Festivals & Awards
The New York Film Festival 2018 Preview
September 29, 2018
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2018: 3 Faces, Happy as Lazzaro
May 13, 2018
Features
Video Q&A with Ahmad Kiarostami
February 9, 2018
MZS
The Unloved, Part 46: The Mangler
October 1, 2017
Festivals & Awards
New York Film Festival 2017 Preview
September 29, 2017
MZS
A worthy cause: Godfrey Cheshire’s book on Iranian Cinema
July 26, 2017
Features
Thumbnails 7/26/17
July 25, 2017
Interviews
Mimicking Being a Human Being: Michael Cera on “Person to Person” and “Lemon”
July 23, 2017
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2017: Palme de Whiskers
May 27, 2017
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2017: Palme d’Or predictions
May 26, 2017
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2017: “24 Frames,” “Rodin,” “Radiance”
May 23, 2017
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room March 2017: “Towards a True Children’s Cinema: On ‘My Neighbor Totoro'” by Lauren Wilford
March 13, 2017
Festivals & Awards
CIFF 2016: “Sieranevada,” “Olli Mäki” are Festival Favorities
October 26, 2016
Features
A One-of-a-Kind Artist: The RogerEbert.com Staff Remembers Abbas Kiarostami
July 5, 2016
Features
Godfrey Cheshire on Knowing Abbas Kiarostami Through His Films and Friendship
July 5, 2016
Features
A Slice of Life: Abbas Kiarostami 1940-2016
July 5, 2016
Features
Thumbnails 5/24/16
May 24, 2016
Features
“La Dolce Vita” No More: On The Current State of Foreign-Language Film Distribution
March 18, 2016
Interviews
A Living Cinematic Organism: Stephen Cone on “Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party”
January 5, 2016
Chaz's Journal
Who’s Who In Reviews: Godfrey Cheshire
July 6, 2015
MZS
Godfrey Cheshire’s “Death of Film/Decay of Cinema” Essay
April 15, 2015
Far Flungers
“Goodbye Solo”
April 13, 2015
Features
Book Excerpt: “Asghar Farhadi: Life and Cinema” by Tina Hassannia
December 12, 2014
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2014: Films Help Define a Cinematic World in Flux
September 29, 2014
Features
Meet the Writers: Godfrey Cheshire
September 24, 2014
MZS
Death of Film/Decay of Cinema at 15: A Conversation with Godfrey Cheshire
July 31, 2014
Features
Regarding R.W. Fassbinder: Letter to a Young Cinephile
May 16, 2014
Features
Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project
January 29, 2014
Features
Traditions of Quality: Mark Cousins’ “The Story of Film: An Odyssey”
October 5, 2013
Festivals & Awards
Am I Blue?: Cannes Report, May 22
May 22, 2013
Festivals & Awards
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad Cannes
May 19, 2013
Far Flungers
My Ten Greatest Movies
May 6, 2013
Roger Ebert
Rosenbaum replies to Tavernier
March 4, 2013
Far Flungers
Little Hushpuppy in a big forgotten world
February 11, 2013
Roger Ebert
I’ll tell you why movie revenue is dropping…
December 19, 2012
Festivals & Awards
Love under stormy skies
December 14, 2012
Festivals & Awards
If it’s springtime, it must be Cannes
December 14, 2012
Festivals & Awards
And the Palme d’Whiskers goes to…
December 14, 2012
Festivals & Awards
Iranian filmmakers take center stage
December 14, 2012
Festivals & Awards
A taste of lemon, a whiff of ash…
December 14, 2012
Chaz at Cannes
A letter from Chaz
December 14, 2012
Scanners
Sensitivity training: the fallacy of feelings
December 14, 2012
Scanners
Moviegoers who feel too much
December 14, 2012
Scanners
Bergman and Antonioni: Commercial moviemakers
December 14, 2012
Scanners
Certified Copy: How can you be in two spaces at once…?
December 14, 2012
Scanners
Movies that allow you some breathing room
December 14, 2012
Scanners
Cannes & Cannes-not: On being a movie geek
December 14, 2012
Scanners
My First 2011 “Ten Best” List
December 14, 2012
Scanners
The Return of the Autobiographical Dictionary of Film
December 14, 2012
Scanners
Movie culture: The Dead, the Deader and the Deadest
December 14, 2012
Scanners
Greatest Films of All Time: Where’s the funny?
December 14, 2012
Scanners
The Stepford Critics?
December 14, 2012
Scanners
Who matters?
December 14, 2012
Scanners
Tex Avery: Escape from Alka-Fizz
December 14, 2012
Scanners
(Kar-) Wai, Oh Why?
December 14, 2012
Scanners
Name That Director!
December 14, 2012
Scanners
Richard Leacock (1911-2011): “Screw the tripod!”
December 14, 2012
Scanners
Uncle Boonmee who recalls me to my present life
December 14, 2012
Scanners
Iranian director Jafar Pahani begins prison hunger strike (UPDATED)
December 14, 2012
Scanners
Arthouse suspense: My month with Abbas and Joe
December 14, 2012
Far Flungers
But didn’t they just now meet?
December 14, 2012
Far Flungers
The cinema of scarred hearts
December 14, 2012
Roger Ebert
Cannes #1: On a darkling plain
December 14, 2012
Roger Ebert
Who do you read? Good Roger, or Bad Roger?
December 14, 2012
Roger Ebert
CIFF 2010: Our capsule reviews
December 14, 2012
Roger Ebert
I’m a proud Brainiac
December 14, 2012
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