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Abbas Kiarostami

Agnès Varda - Director

‘Taste of Cherry’: Agnès Varda’s favourite film about “the desire to die”

A ’90s classic.

Aimee Ferrier
May 30, 2026
Roger Ebert - Film Critic - 1990's

The “excruciatingly boring” Palme d’Or-winning movie Roger Ebert hated with a passion

He was in the minority.

Scott Campbell
Mar 17, 2026
Pamela Anderson - Actor - Actress - Celebrity - Businesswoman - 2024 - 2025

The director Pamela Anderson called the “original gangster” of beautiful cinema

A master of the medium.

Lily Hardman
Dec 15, 2025
Life, and nothing more… (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997)

‘Life, and nothing more…’: The greatest film-within-a-film in cinema history

A moving story about moving on.

Emily Ruuskanen
May 25, 2025
The five best movies to watch while having an existential crisis

The five movies to watch while having an existential crisis

To lift your spirits.

Emily Ruuskanen
May 15, 2025
'Taste of Cherry'- how Abbas Kiarostami uses cars as a narrative device

‘Taste of Cherry’: how Abbas Kiarostami uses cars as a narrative device

A mesmerising masterpiece.

Emily Ruuskanen
Mar 9, 2025
Abbas Kiarostami - Director - Far Out Magazine

‘This Is Not A Film’: The smuggled Iranian movie that Abbas Kiarostami refused to watch

A sneaky distribution method.

Emily Ruuskanen
Oct 29, 2024
Through the Olive Trees - 1994 - Abbas Kiarostami

Abbas Kiarostami, ‘Through the Olive Trees’, and a failure to explore womanhood

“There are exceptional women characters, but then I don’t make movies about exceptions.”

Thomas Coll
Sep 14, 2024
Drive My Car - 2021 - Ryusuke Hamaguchi

The influence of Abbas Kiarostami and Wim Wenders on Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ‘Drive My Car’

Transport interiors.

Thomas Coll
Aug 30, 2024
Abbas Kiarostami - Director - Far Out Magazine

Abbas Kiarostami and the similarities between filmmaking to football: “Arbitrary choices”

“To erupt the story…”

Swapnil Dhruv Bose
Aug 22, 2024
Abbas Kiarostami - Director - Far Out Magazine

The scene that took Abbas Kiarostami 17 years to realise

“The crucial sequence of the film.”

Thomas Coll
Aug 19, 2024
Abbas Kiarostami - Director - Far Out Magazine

“There is something very natural in the context”: Abbas Kiarostami explains why he finally decided to use violence

It only underlined the importance.

Scott Campbell
Aug 7, 2024

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