Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Abbas Kiarostami is preoccupied with my tape recorder. He wonders if it’s too far away from where he’s sitting. He makes his translator switch from one side of him to another so that the recorder is ...

One of the ironies of the use of special effects in movies is their literal-mindedness: That is, by pouring millions of dollars into computer-generated imagery, film producers try to bludgeon us into ...

In January, the New York theater will host a mini-festival featuring the works of "It Was Just an Accident" director Jafar Panahi and his mentor, Abbas Kiarostami — the only two Iranian filmmakers to ...

Distributing films by Todd Haynes, Guy Maddin, Abbas Kiarostami, Laura Poitras, Olivier Assayas, and even Jacques Demy, Zeitgeist Film has been one of the most vital caretakers of independent and ...

The Criterion Collection’s massively underrated Eclipse series returns after a far-too-long hiatus. The series, known for grouping lesser-known and/or early works from some of our greatest filmmakers, ...

Ahmad Kiarostami visits Asia Society to present his father Abbas's famous Koker Trilogy as part of our ongoing classics series Films to See Before You Die. Abbas Kiarostami first came to international ...

Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. A part of the ...

For decades now, Iranian cinema has regularly been making news. This year, the Palme d’Or at Cannes went to Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident,” and there’s little doubt the film will secure at ...

The camera likes to linger on the subjects of this warm, melancholy drama from Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami: a young call girl named Akiko, her fiancé, and an elderly scholar she’s sent to see one ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Abbas Kiarostami, the writer-director who showed that Iranian cinema was one of the most original and emotionally engaging in the world, died in Paris on Monday from complications ...