Blog Posts That Mention Kiarostami
Book Excerpt: In the Time of Kiarostami: Writings on Iranian Cinema by Godfrey Cheshire
The Editors
Abbas Kiarostami, the Filmmaker and the Man: an Interview with Godfrey Cheshire
Matt Zoller Seitz
Book Excerpt: Conversations with Kiarostami by Godfrey Cheshire
Godfrey Cheshire
Video Q&A with Ahmad Kiarostami
Godfrey Cheshire
A One-of-a-Kind Artist: The RogerEbert.com Staff Remembers Abbas Kiarostami
The Editors
Godfrey Cheshire on Knowing Abbas Kiarostami Through His Films and Friendship
Godfrey Cheshire
A Slice of Life: Abbas Kiarostami 1940-2016
Patrick Z. McGavin
The 20 Best Films of 2025 So Far
The Editors
Home Entertainment Guide May 2025: Better Man, Black Bag, Mickey 17, More
Brian Tallerico
Cannes 2025: The President’s Cake, Death Does Not Exist, Peak Everything
Isaac Feldberg
In the Name of Friendship: Matthew Rankin on “Universal Language”
Isaac Feldberg
Cannes 2024: The Seed of the Sacred Fig, All We Imagine as Light, The Most Precious of Cargoes
Ben Kenigsberg
9 Underrated Romantic Movies for Valentine’s Day This Year
The Editors
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Erige Sehiri on Under the Fig Trees
Marya E. Gates
A Preview of the 2024 Iranian Film Festival New York
Godfrey Cheshire
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Noora Niasari on Shayda
Marya E. Gates
A Shocking Loss: Dariush Mehrjui (1939-2023)
Godfrey Cheshire
MOMA Launches Iranian Cinema Before the Revolution, 1925-1979
Godfrey Cheshire
The Ten Best Films of 2022
The Editors
NYFF 2022: No Bears, R.M.N., All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Godfrey Cheshire
Stare at the Flame: Jane Schoenbrun on We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
Nick Allen
NYFF 2021: Closing Thoughts
Godfrey Cheshire
NYFF 2021: Hit the Road, Unclenching the Fists, The Girl and the Spider
Scout Tafoya
Book Excerpt: Subjective realities: The art of creative nonfiction film
The Editors
The Show Must Go On: The Cannes 2021 Film Festival
Lisa Nesselson
Meet the Writers: Roxana Hadadi
The Editors
No Easy Answers: Ramin Bahrani on The White Tiger
Roxana Hadadi
Gang of Three: A Conversation with Godfrey Cheshire, Matt Zoller Seitz, and Armond White
Craig D. Lindsey
Home Entertainment Guide: July 23, 2020
Brian Tallerico
Kamran Heidari on Ali Aqa, His Approach to Documentary Filmmaking and More
Steve Erickson
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: January 10, 2018
Brian Tallerico
The 2019 Iranian Film Festival
Steve Erickson
Simon Abrams’ Top Ten Films of 2018
Simon Abrams
The 4-Star Reviews of 2018
The Editors
The New York Film Festival 2018 Preview
Godfrey Cheshire
Cannes 2018: 3 Faces, Happy as Lazzaro
Barbara Scharres
The Unloved, Part 46: The Mangler
Scout Tafoya
New York Film Festival 2017 Preview
Godfrey Cheshire
A worthy cause: Godfrey Cheshire’s book on Iranian Cinema
Matt Zoller Seitz
Thumbnails 7/26/17
Matt Fagerholm
Mimicking Being a Human Being: Michael Cera on “Person to Person” and “Lemon”
Matt Fagerholm
Cannes 2017: Palme de Whiskers
Barbara Scharres
Cannes 2017: Palme d’Or predictions
Ben Kenigsberg
Cannes 2017: “24 Frames,” “Rodin,” “Radiance”
Barbara Scharres
Bright Wall/Dark Room March 2017: “Towards a True Children’s Cinema: On ‘My Neighbor Totoro'” by Lauren Wilford
The Editors
CIFF 2016: “Sieranevada,” “Olli Mäki” are Festival Favorities
Nick Allen
Thumbnails 5/24/16
Matt Fagerholm
“La Dolce Vita” No More: On The Current State of Foreign-Language Film Distribution
Steve Erickson
A Living Cinematic Organism: Stephen Cone on “Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party”
Sheila O'Malley
Who’s Who In Reviews: Godfrey Cheshire
Chaz Ebert
Godfrey Cheshire’s “Death of Film/Decay of Cinema” Essay
Matt Zoller Seitz
“Goodbye Solo”
Seongyong Cho
Book Excerpt: “Asghar Farhadi: Life and Cinema” by Tina Hassannia
The Editors
NYFF 2014: Films Help Define a Cinematic World in Flux
Scout Tafoya
Meet the Writers: Godfrey Cheshire
Godfrey Cheshire
Death of Film/Decay of Cinema at 15: A Conversation with Godfrey Cheshire
Matt Zoller Seitz
Regarding R.W. Fassbinder: Letter to a Young Cinephile
Godfrey Cheshire
Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project
Steve Erickson
Traditions of Quality: Mark Cousins’ “The Story of Film: An Odyssey”
Brian Doan
Am I Blue?: Cannes Report, May 22
Barbara Scharres
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad Cannes
Michał Oleszczyk
My Ten Greatest Movies
Omer M. Mozaffar
Rosenbaum replies to Tavernier
Roger Ebert
Little Hushpuppy in a big forgotten world
Omer M. Mozaffar
I’ll tell you why movie revenue is dropping…
Roger Ebert
Love under stormy skies
Barbara Scharres
And the Palme d’Whiskers goes to…
Barbara Scharres
If it’s springtime, it must be Cannes
Barbara Scharres
A taste of lemon, a whiff of ash…
Barbara Scharres
Iranian filmmakers take center stage
Barbara Scharres
A letter from Chaz
Chaz Ebert
Sensitivity training: the fallacy of feelings
Jim Emerson
Moviegoers who feel too much
Jim Emerson
Bergman and Antonioni: Commercial moviemakers
Jim Emerson
Certified Copy: How can you be in two spaces at once…?
Jim Emerson
Movies that allow you some breathing room
Jim Emerson
Cannes & Cannes-not: On being a movie geek
Jim Emerson
My First 2011 “Ten Best” List
Jim Emerson
Movie culture: The Dead, the Deader and the Deadest
Jim Emerson
The Return of the Autobiographical Dictionary of Film
Jim Emerson
Greatest Films of All Time: Where’s the funny?
Jim Emerson
Who matters?
Jim Emerson
The Stepford Critics?
Jim Emerson
Tex Avery: Escape from Alka-Fizz
Jim Emerson
(Kar-) Wai, Oh Why?
Jim Emerson
Name That Director!
Jim Emerson
Richard Leacock (1911-2011): “Screw the tripod!”
Jim Emerson
Iranian director Jafar Pahani begins prison hunger strike (UPDATED)
Jim Emerson
Uncle Boonmee who recalls me to my present life
Jim Emerson
Arthouse suspense: My month with Abbas and Joe
Jim Emerson
But didn’t they just now meet?
Pablo Villaça
The cinema of scarred hearts
Omer M. Mozaffar
Cannes #1: On a darkling plain
Roger Ebert
Who do you read? Good Roger, or Bad Roger?
Roger Ebert
CIFF 2010: Our capsule reviews
Roger Ebert
I’m a proud Brainiac
Roger Ebert
Cannes postmortem. Is that the wrong word?
Roger Ebert
CIFF 2012 puts the ‘Chicago’ in film fest
Roger Ebert
CIFF: Viruses, sex surrogates and Room 237
Roger Ebert
Take 46: CIFF brings the world of film to town
Roger Ebert
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