Note: This review contains description of the very end of the film. Abbas Kiarostami’s Taste of Cherry opens with a man driving around a hilly part of Tehran. He stops to talk with various strangers, ...

Produced in two countries halfway across the world from each other and 15 years apart, one film and one limited series offer some of the most compelling discussions of pessimism and despair ever ...

Iran’s state news agency IRNA confirmed that Ershadi passed away on November 11 following a battle with cancer. Tributes have poured in from the global film community, remembering him as one of Iran’s ...

Iranian actor Homayoun Ershadi succumbed to cancer on November 11. He was 78 years old and had worked with the likes of Abbas Kiarostami and Dariush Mehrjui. The last couple of days have been strange ...

The film business is notoriously unstable, and the path is especially hazardous for any company that dares to think of cinema as an art as well as a business. So it’s a cause for celebration that ...

Abbas Kiarostami made difficult films. That’s not a criticism, just an observation—one that hasn’t been made too often since we lost the great Iranian director to cancer a couple of weeks ago. Critics ...