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17 June 2005

Four golden rules "With films such as Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us and 10, his digital feature set entirely in a car, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami has in recent years become a critics' favourite on the international film scene, even though he has been producing a stream of magnificent work since the early 1970s. Lucky for me, then, to be one of 20 students chosen to take part in an eight-day workshop, organised by the London Film School, on digital film-making led by one of the masters of that particular species of cinema. Here are four central ideas Kiarostami had us consider throughout our week together".
Really? kewl, sounds like a fun workshop. Hey, are you going to show off what you made during the workshop too? (I wanna see it at least!).
posted by dabitch 17 June | 06:08
"A good feature film is a documentary, and vice versa," says AK.

Like 2001, right?

"Sometimes during filming on 10, I would sit in between the son and mother on the backseat of the car, but most of the time I just let them go and would watch the tape later. I reject the traditional job of the director."

Ah-ha. I see.

Actually, I quite like the Kiarostami films I've seen.
posted by gramschmidt 17 June | 11:08
Kiarostami is up there with Godard and Edward Yang as living directors for whom "revere" is not too strong a word to describe my feelings. It infuriated me when he was kept out of the US by insane rules and crazed officials. I wish him many more years of great, inventive moviemaking.
posted by languagehat 19 June | 14:44
when korean kids draw it out || The worst album covers in the world.

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