Remembering Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami

On July 4 in Paris, at the age of 76, Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami died of cancer. This is a heavy loss to world cinema. Jean-Luc Godard said it, reportedly, and it may be hyperbole but it’s also poetically true: “Film begins with D.W. Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.” Sublime, conscious...

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