Neil, Dario and guest presenter Mark Jenkin discuss the work of Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami particularly focusing on his 1990 'documentary' Close-Up. Having recently passed away the love and reverence for Kiarostami in the international film community was starkly apparent by the depth and breadth of tributes to him. Having watched many of his films we discuss his legacy, status and the vibrancy of filmmaking from Iran despite the hugely difficult social and political conditions.
This episode also features an interview with Iranian Filmmaker Mania Akbari. After collaborating with Kiarostami on Ten as an actress, along with her son, Akbari has gone on to a directorial career of her own, making provocative films (along with art exhibitions) that are expressly feminist in nature tackling issues such as memony, identity, the body and sexuality all with an uncompromising personal underpinning.
Show Notes
The Most Fatal Attraction: Kiarostami's Close-up revisited - Coco Ferguson
Mania Akbari's Website
Her (live from the University of Chichester)
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (w/ director Julien Temple)
A Ghost Story
London Film Festival 2018 w/Filmmaker and Critic Marbelle
The Piano (w/ Ellen Cheshire)
American Animals director Bart Layton
Film-Philosophy Conference 2018
Steve McQueen
Lek and the Dogs (w/ Dir. Andew Kötting)
Unsocial Audiences
The Islands and the Whales (W/ dir. Mike Day)
Juice (w/ film critic & podcaster Leslie Pitt)
Claire Denis (with Dr. Felicity Gee)
Right Now Film Festival / Brexitannia (+filmmaker Daisy Asquith)
In a Lonely Place (w/ Prof. Julie Grossman)
Dark River (with Clio Barnard and Andrew Kötting)
Paul Thomas Anderson
Contemporary Film Criticism
Post-Weinstein (plus an interview with Dr. Tamsyn Dent.)
La Notte (featuring film critic Robert Koehler)
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