Variety.com (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Film News: Locarno Film Festival honorees
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
As Wendy Mitchell reports for Screen, the Venice Film Festival has announced the lineup for its 65th edition. The fest opens on August 27 with Joel and Ethan Coen's Burn After Reading (screening Out of Competition) and runs through...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
More than 100,000 people are expected to attend a mostly free four-day festival celebrating the culture of Iran at Harbourfront this weekend .
Opera Today (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
By Francis Carlin [Financial Times, 9 July 2008] Producing opera is a serious job, not something to be undertaken just because you fancy doing it. This new Così marks the 60th anniversary of the festival, which started in 1948 with the same opera, and the operatic debut of Abbas Kiarostami, the 68-year-old Iranian filmmaker. It is, sadly, an amateurish flop.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Rupert Christiansen reviews Abbas Kiarostami's Così fan tutte at the Aix Festival.
France24 (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
This year's opera festival in the French city of Aix en Provence presents Mozart's renowned "Così fan tutte". Its director is Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, whose "The taste of cherries" won the 2007 Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Film News: MK2, Film4 team on Miranda July film -- France's MK2 and Britain's Film4 will produce "Satisfaction," the second film by U.S. writer-director Miranda July. In a parallel move, MK2 has set dates for Abbas Kiarostami's long-mooted "Certified Copy," with Juliette Binoche.
rediff Movies (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
One of the first directors NDTV Lumiere (international cinema channel) has managed to snag is 51-year-old Finn Aki Kaurismaki, an outspoken firebrand who began his directing career with 1983's Crime And Punishment, a modern Helsinki-based adaptation of Dostoevsky's novel.
Hindu (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
The spirit of Cannes festival on World Movies
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
Highly Recommended Bamako is the most original courtroom drama since Abbas Kiarostami's Close-up (1990). The attorneys are real barristers who've written their own arguments to the court and questions for the witnesses. The witnesses for the prosecution are non-actors who believe that they've actually been harmed by the defendants, and they too have written their own statements. The defendants, being...
The Sheila Variations (Free subscription) | 04/20/2008
Suicide is (and always has been) a cross-cultural taboo. No religion is indifferent to it. I think the ancient Egyptians might have been a culture that thought it was a valid way to go, if you wanted to escape...
Poetry Hut Blog (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
Poetry News: — It may be argued, then, that Plath’s “lasting achievement” was her ability to combine the personal and the mythical in her poetry, thereby endowing this with a timeless and “relevant” literary effect — — A Russian Poet Unpeels Her Many Lives — — Rare Emily Dickinson photo(?) purchased on Ebay — — Intelligence And Rhythmic Accuracy [...]
The blog Film (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
Woody Allen and Abbas Kiarostami are directing operas, but I'm not sure why
MayorWatch (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
The ENO have announced their 2008/09 Sky Arts Season which includes 10 new productions, five revivals and the opera directing debut of acclaimed actress Fiona Shaw and the UK debut of award-winning film makers Penny Woolcock and Abbas Kiarostami.
