Film experts Laurence Kardish and Godfrey Cheshire discuss how the Iranian director was serious about pursuing experimental work outside of cinema. Abbas Kiarostami had one of the most acclaimed ...

The restored version of “Through the Olive Trees” directed by Abbas Kiarostami will be screened and discussed at the Cinema ...

The late Iranian filmmaker's final work is a brief encapsulation of his skill. When Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami died earlier this year, the outpouring of grief was a spectacle unmatched by any ...

One of cinema’s great masters, Abbas Kiarostami, whose pictures could be intimate and human-scaled while also self-reflexive and bracingly political, died today in Paris. The Palme D’Or winner — for ...

There’s a lot of driving and talking in “Like Someone in Love,” Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami‘s latest production made outside of his native country, but beyond that is anyone’s guess. Following ...

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 ...

(TEHRAN, Iran) — Iran's official news agency says acclaimed director Abbas Kiarostami, whose 1997 film "Taste of Cherry" won the Palme d'Or, has died at the age of 76. IRNA says Kiarostami died Monday ...

Robert Koehler writes that the late director honed "his ever-developing acute approach to modernism through whatever system in which he might find himself working." One of the most interesting ...

The story of a young boy, a loaf of bread, and a hungry dog launched a legendary career. Yesterday, legendary Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami died at the age of 76. The man behind such ...

After graduating from Columbia University and toiling for years as a screenwriter, I finally made my feature film debut in 2013 with an independent, romantic comedy called “Missed Connections.” The ...

“Certified Copy,” which opens this Friday (and which David Denby writes about in a Critic at Large piece available to subscribers), is the first dramatic feature that the Iranian director Abbas ...