Persian-Language Film Directors - Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Bahman Motamedian, Pouran Derakhshandeh, Dariush Mehrjui, Mehdi Na (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Bahman Motamedian, Pouran Derakhshandeh, Dariush Mehrjui, Mehdi Naderi, Nosrat Karimi, Takhir Sabirov, Esmael Barari, Mohammad Nourizad, Sohrab Shahid-Saless, Rakhshan Bani-E'temad, Majid Majidi, Samira Makhmalbaf, Mania Akbari, Hajir Darioush, Samuel Khachikian, Siddiq Barmak, Rafi Pitts, Abolfazl Jalili, Parviz Kimiavi, Behrouz Gharibpour, Mitra Farahani, Jamshed Usmonov, Esmail Koushan, Hassan Yektapanah, Saman Saloor. Excerpt: Abbas Kiarostami (Persian: Abb s Kiy rostam; born 22 June 1940) is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer. An active filmmaker since 1970, Kiarostami has been involved in over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the Koker Trilogy (1987-94), Taste of Cherry (1997), and The Wind Will Carry Us (1999). Kiarostami has worked extensively as a screenwriter, film editor, art director and producer and has designed credit titles and publicity material. He is also a poet, photographer, painter, illustrator, and graphic designer. Kiarostami is part of a generation of filmmakers in the Iranian New Wave, a Persian cinema movement that started in the late 1960s and includes pioneering directors such as Forough Farrokhzad, Sohrab Shahid Saless, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Bahram Beizai, and Parviz Kimiavi. The filmmakers share many common techniques including the use of poetic dialogue and allegorical storytelling dealing with political and philosophical issues. Kiarostami has a reputation for using child protagonists, for documentary style narrative films, for stories that take place in rural villages, and for conversations that unfold inside cars, using stationary mounted cameras. He is also known for his use of contemporary Iranian...