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Blog Posts That Mention Kiarostami
Panahi & Kiarostami: Two Masters
Book Excerpt: In the Time of Kiarostami: Writings on Iranian Cinema by Godfrey Cheshire
Abbas Kiarostami, the Filmmaker and the Man: an Interview with Godfrey Cheshire
Book Excerpt: Conversations with Kiarostami by Godfrey Cheshire
Video Q&A with Ahmad Kiarostami
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
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
Stare at the Flame: Jane Schoenbrun on We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
NYFF 2021: Closing Thoughts
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
The 4-Star Reviews of 2018
The New York Film Festival 2018 Preview
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
Thumbnails 7/26/17
Mimicking Being a Human Being: Michael Cera on “Person to Person” and “Lemon”
Cannes 2017: Palme de Whiskers
Cannes 2017: Palme d’Or predictions
Cannes 2017: “24 Frames,” “Rodin,” “Radiance”
Bright Wall/Dark Room March 2017: “Towards a True Children’s Cinema: On ‘My Neighbor Totoro'” by Lauren Wilford
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
Godfrey Cheshire’s “Death of Film/Decay of Cinema” Essay
“Goodbye Solo”
Book Excerpt: “Asghar Farhadi: Life and Cinema” by Tina Hassannia
NYFF 2014: Films Help Define a Cinematic World in Flux
Meet the Writers: Godfrey Cheshire
Death of Film/Decay of Cinema at 15: A Conversation with Godfrey Cheshire
Regarding R.W. Fassbinder: Letter to a Young Cinephile
Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project
Traditions of Quality: Mark Cousins’ “The Story of Film: An Odyssey”
Am I Blue?: Cannes Report, May 22
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad Cannes
My Ten Greatest Movies
Rosenbaum replies to Tavernier
Little Hushpuppy in a big forgotten world
I’ll tell you why movie revenue is dropping…
Love under stormy skies
And the Palme d’Whiskers goes to…
If it’s springtime, it must be Cannes
A taste of lemon, a whiff of ash…
Iranian filmmakers take center stage
A letter from Chaz
Sensitivity training: the fallacy of feelings
Moviegoers who feel too much
Bergman and Antonioni: Commercial moviemakers
Certified Copy: How can you be in two spaces at once…?
Movies that allow you some breathing room
Cannes & Cannes-not: On being a movie geek
My First 2011 “Ten Best” List
Movie culture: The Dead, the Deader and the Deadest
The Return of the Autobiographical Dictionary of Film
Greatest Films of All Time: Where’s the funny?
Who matters?
The Stepford Critics?
Tex Avery: Escape from Alka-Fizz
(Kar-) Wai, Oh Why?
Name That Director!
Richard Leacock (1911-2011): “Screw the tripod!”
Iranian director Jafar Pahani begins prison hunger strike (UPDATED)
Uncle Boonmee who recalls me to my present life
Arthouse suspense: My month with Abbas and Joe
But didn’t they just now meet?
The cinema of scarred hearts
Cannes #1: On a darkling plain
Who do you read? Good Roger, or Bad Roger?
CIFF 2010: Our capsule reviews
