In the magazine this week, David Denby writes about the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami (in a Critic at Large piece that’s available to subscribers), on the occasion of the release of “Certified ...

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 ...

The Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, who died yesterday at the age of seventy-six, was simply one of the most original and influential directors in the history of cinema. He achieved something that ...

After World War II, Italy’s infrastructure was in such ruins that its filmmakers adopted an entirely new approach to their work. They no longer had studios and sets, so they took their cameras into ...

PREVIOUS Abbas Kiarostami, the Palme D’Or-winning Iranian director of 1997’s Taste of Cherry, has died in Paris at 76. The death was first reported by Iranian news agencies. Watch on Deadline ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, whose 1997 film “Taste of Cherry” won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, has died in ...

Moreover, if we regard "feature" as an international marketing term, how we add up items in Kiarostami's extremely varied filmography that fit that category is by no means certain. I've arbitrarily ...

The longtime film critic explains how the Iranian auteur's death impacted his own work and inspired him to write a book. My returning to work on a book about Iranian cinema that I’d put aside years ...

Abbas Kiarostami, the late-great Iranian filmmaker, has been named the recipient of the WGA West’s 2017 Jean Renoir Award for International Screenwriting Achievement, which recognizes an international ...

In July 2008, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence celebrated its 60th anniversary. For decades now, Aix has stood for innovation in staging and radical interpretation of classic operas. Directors such as Peter ...

Director Abbas Kiarostami, left and actress Rin Takanashi pose during a photo call for Like Somone in Love at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Monday, May 21, 2012.

BEIRUT — 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 related to ...