Chris Knipp
07-05-2016, 08:32 AM
Iran cinema: Abbas Kiarostami, award-winning film director, dies at 76 (1940–2016) (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36709240)
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Mike D'Angelo @gemko 18h18 hours ago
Kiarostami made films I loved and films I hated, but he never made a film that didn’t feel like it was probing the limits of what a film is.
Abbas Kiarostami was a mysterious and delicate fabulist of human nature and human relations, a film-maker whose stories were somehow in, but not of, the real world. His movies didn’t render up their meaning easily; they were replete with meditative calm, sadness, reflection, but also dissent, obliquely stylised confrontation and emotional negotiation – as well as his own elusive kind of playful humour.
-Peter Bradshaw, Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2016/jul/04/abbas-kiarostami-master-of-cinematic-poetry-peter-bradshaw).
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Mike D'Angelo @gemko 18h18 hours ago
Kiarostami made films I loved and films I hated, but he never made a film that didn’t feel like it was probing the limits of what a film is.
Abbas Kiarostami was a mysterious and delicate fabulist of human nature and human relations, a film-maker whose stories were somehow in, but not of, the real world. His movies didn’t render up their meaning easily; they were replete with meditative calm, sadness, reflection, but also dissent, obliquely stylised confrontation and emotional negotiation – as well as his own elusive kind of playful humour.
-Peter Bradshaw, Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2016/jul/04/abbas-kiarostami-master-of-cinematic-poetry-peter-bradshaw).