Abbas Kiarostami: Image Maker
7/7/07 to 8/30/07
One of the most critically acclaimed and influential filmmakers of the past twenty-five years, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami has captivated Western audiences with works of deceptive simplicity and indefinable poetry. We are proud to present this retrospective of his films, from early documentaries through his celebrated "Koker trilogy" and recent masterworks like The Wind Will Carry Us and Five, along with an exhibition of his still photographs in the BAM galleries. "These are indispensable films."-The Nation
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And Life Goes On, August 4, 11
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Films - Past
Films - Past
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Past Films
The Wind Will Carry Us
Saturday, July 7 8:00 pmA television crew arrives at a remote Kurdish village to await a mourning ritual. While they wait for death, life happens. "A stunningly lyrical and eloquent exploration of both rural village life and the nature of artistic responsibility."-N.Y. Times. Repeated on Thursday, August 30.View DetailsThe Traveler
Tuesday, July 10 7:30pmA young boy in a rural village schemes and dreams his way to a soccer match in Tehran in Kiarostami's first feature, similar to The 400 Blows. With shorts So Can I and Two Solutions for One Problem. Repeated on Saturday, July 14.View DetailsThe Experience
Saturday, July 14 4:30pmKiarostami's wonderful, nearly wordless portrait of a young photographer's assistant who nurses a crush on a girl beyond his reach. With shorts Bread and Alley and Recess. Repeated on Thursday, July 19.View DetailsThe Wedding Suit
Thursday, July 19 7:00pmAn O. Henry–like story of a wedding suit "borrowed" from the tailor's for a night explores the world of working youths in the shops and streets of Tehran. "Great suspense is built by purely visual means, recalling the apparent simplicity of neorealism."-MoMA, N.Y. With shorts Colors and Solution No. 1. Repeated on Saturday, July 21.View DetailsClose-Up
Saturday, July 21 6:30 pm"Kiarostami, in semi-documentary mode, re-creates the true story of an unemployed dreamer-an ardent cinephile-who passes himself off as the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, a fraudulent act that becomes both an homage and a fresh work of art."-New Yorker. With Film School of Hossein Sabzian. Repeated on Saturday, August 18.View DetailsFellow Citizen
Tuesday, July 24 7:30 pmBossy citizens invent countless reasons why a traffic cop should let them pass in Kiarostami's satiric example of humanity's capacity for lying-that is, telling stories. With shorts Orderly or Disorderly and The Chorus. Repeated on Thursday, August 9.View DetailsFirst-Graders
Saturday, July 28 4:30pmPlay meets punishment in Kiarostami's documentary on first-graders reporting for their first day of school. Repeated on Thursday, August 9.View DetailsWhere Is the Friend's Home?
Saturday, July 28 6:30 pmThis beautiful picture of the life of a child in a northern Iranian village is the first of Kiarostami's beloved Koker trilogy. Repeated on Saturday, August 25.View DetailsHomework
Saturday, July 28 8:30pmIn a series of interviews with grade-school boys on the topic of homework, much is revealed on the topic of life. Repeated on Saturday, August 25.View DetailsAnd Life Goes On
Saturday, August 4 6:30pmKiarostami seeks to find out the fate of the now–earthquake devastated area of Koker and Poshteh from Where Is the Friend's Home? and finds willing actors among the survivors. Repeated on Saturday, August 11.View DetailsThrough the Olive Trees
Saturday, August 4 8:30pmThe Koker trilogy's last film, "which follows the misadventures of a crew shooting a film in rural Iran, at first seems to be a joke about the way life resists being turned into a movie, but it becomes a better joke about a movie that transforms life."-New YorkerView DetailsRugs, Roads, and Palaces: Short Films by Abbas Kiarostami
Tuesday, August 7 7:30pmA chance to see Kiarostami's rare 1977 film on the restoration of one of the Shah's residencies, Jahan-Nama Palace; a "tour" of a unique Persian carpet, Rug; Birth of Light, filmed in Japan; and the estimable Roads of Kiarostami, a poetic meditation on photography, beauty, and destruction.View DetailsTaste of Cherry
Saturday, August 11 6:30pmThe Cannes prizewinning mystery of a man seemingly in his prime who searches the dusty hills of rural Iran for someone to help him commit suicide. Naturally, everyone he meets has an opinion on the subject. "A masterpiece."-The Nation. With short Birth of Light.View DetailsTen
Thursday, August 16 7:00pmIn the front seat of her car, a young urban divorcee grapples with her anxieties in this "courageous, instinctive film . . . sometimes funny, sometimes moving, always engrossing . . . offering a new model of filmmaking that reaches deep into human behavior and concerns."-Variety. With short Roads of Kiarostami.View DetailsABC Africa
Thursday, August 23 7:00pmKiarostami's first film made outside of Iran is this stirring, poetic documentary on AIDS orphans in Uganda: "A film without borders."-indieWire. "An ode to life, as embodied by the vitality of the Ugandan people."-MoMA, N.Y.View DetailsFive
Thursday, August 23 8:45 pmDedicated to Yasujiro Ozu, Kiarostami's serene cinematic nature studies, shot mostly along the Caspian Sea, recall Andy Warhol and the landscape works of James Benning. "Remarkably captivating, like a perfectly crafted object of contemplation."-Village VoiceView Details10 on Ten
Thursday, August 30 7:00 pmFrom the master himself, thoughts on filmmaking as a journey, delivered from-where else?-the front seat of his car while driving around Taste of Cherry's dusty landscapes. "An incisive, sometimes funny, and often provocative contemplation of the art of cinema."-MoMA, N.Y.View Details
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