Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Abbas Kiarostami was famous for pushing the boundaries of cinematic narrative in films like “Close-Up,” “Taste of Cherry,” and ...

When he was dying in spring last year, Abbas Kiarostami knew he was leaving behind not only his family and friends, but also his final work, unfinished. Iran’s most celebrated filmmaker and noted ...

"Kiarostami represents the highest level of artistry in the cinema." Janus Films has unveiled the trailer for an experimental film titled 24 Frames, the last full-length feature project from the late ...

Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, who died in 2016 at age 76, often employed tricky or complicated methods to arrive at results that appeared simple. For most of the conversations in Taste of Cherry ...

Abbas Kiarostami, the great Iranian postmodernist who died last summer at the age of 76, used to say that he preferred the kind of movies that put their audience to sleep. “Some films have made me ...

Some dead filmmakers we miss not for the emotional delivery systems they can no longer manufacture, but for their company, sweet and simple. Abbas Kiarostami, the great, modest Gandalf of the Iranian ...

“[Abbas] Kiarostami represents the highest level of artistry in the cinema,” Martin Scorsese once said. Passing away at the age of 76, the Iranian master filmmaker was one of our greatest directors.

Abbas Kiarostami, the greatest Iranian filmmaker, didn’t quite finish his final film, 24 Frames, before dying in July 2016. His son, Ahmad, supervised completion, ushering the film to its premiere at ...

Passing away at the age of 76 last summer, Abbas Kiarostami was one of our greatest directors. The Iranian filmmaker was able to extract the essence of the human soul throughout his career, leaving ...

A new film from the gifted Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami would be a treat at Cannes under any circumstances — but Kiarostami’s death last July at the age of 76 added a particular resonance and ...

The final film by Abbas Kiarostami is a series of 24 segments that trances out on nature, cinema, and the death of a master. What’s the most romantic song ever written? If I told you it was “Love ...