On this site's recent survey of major cinematic achievements of the current decade, reader R. Emmet Sweeney questioned the omission of filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami's Shirin (2008), which has been made newly available by the British Film Institute in a region-2 format DVD that the distributor released in late October. Following Mr. Sweeney's elegant appraisal of the film for Movie Morlocks , where he...
The past ten years have not been the strongest internationally in the history of the art form. Certainly, as with the previous, vaunted decade-and-a-half, wherein notably Iran and the new cinemas of the Chinese world emerged, vital and compelling art has come from unexpected places: in the present decade, Argentina, Germany, Romania and Southeast Asia have all developed into new epicenters of the medium....
Art works of Iranian filmmaker and photographer Abbas Kiarostami as well as by sculptor Parviz Tanavoli have gone on display at a joint exhibition in Dubai. Thirty pieces by Iran's most renowned sculptor Tanavoli, including Big Heech Lovers and Poet in Love, are being exhibited along with 13 photographs by Kiarostami at the show which opened on Monday night at Meem Gallery. Kiarostami, winner of the...
International News: Middle East Film Festival hands out $1 million -- Abu Dhabi's Middle East Film Festival wrapped Saturday night with an awards ceremony that saw more than $1 million in prize money handed out.
NDTV Lumiere director Sunil Doshi has been invited by the Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF) to be a jury in this year's film festival. He will be looking at films in the Narrative Feature Competition, sharing the honours with international names. The festival kickstarted on 8 October and will continue for the next 10 days. Prior to his departure, Doshi ...
An interview with Shirley Elghanian from Magic of Persia. Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize finalists exhibit in London this month, as do the artists involved in the Iran Unbowed exhibition which Magic of Persia have curated to coincide with the Frieze Art Fair. With luminaries such as Abbas Kiarostami on board and Sheena Wagstaff chief curator [...]
Part coming of age story set in the aftermath of the Warsaw Uprising, and part personal testament by lead actress Krystyna Janda on her husband, Edward Klosinski's battle with cancer during filming,...
News: BFI have announced the UK DVD release of Shirin on 26th October 2009 priced at £19.99 RRP. From director Abbas Kiarostami, Shirin is a re-telling of a classic Persian love story. Features include:1.78:1 Anamorphic WidescreenFarsi with optional Eng...
It's probably just as well that Barack Obama's magic touch didn't work on the International Olympic Committee. The election of Obama has certainly reduced the...
I consider myself a cinephile and a good one at that. I’m not one of those people who call themselves cinephiles because they sat through the Three Colours Trilogy on cable. At 24 years old, I feel I grew up watching some of the best films that anyone can watch while growing up but somewhere [...]
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