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Informationen zum Autor Geoff Andrew is a writer and lecturer on film. He is a programmer for BFI Southbank and the London Film Festival, a regular contributor to Sight & Sound magazine, and was for many years Film Editor of Time Out and Consultant Editor of the Time Out Film Guide . In addition to editing several books and contributing to numerous anthologies, Geoff has written, among others, a BFI Modern Classics volume on Kieslowski’s Three Colours Trilogy , a study of the films of Nicholas Ray, and two critical dictionaries, The Film Handbook and F ilm Directors A-Z – The Art of the World’s Greatest Film-makers . In 2009 the French government made him a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres . Klappentext The Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami burst onto the international film scene in the early 1990s and was widely regarded as one of the most distinctive and talented modern-day directors. His major features - including Through the Olive Trees (1994), Taste of Cherry (1997) and The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) - are relatively modest in scale, contemplative and humanist in tone. In 2002, with 10, Kiarostami broke new ground, fixing one or two digital cameras on a car's dashboard to film ten conversations between the driver (Mania Akbari) and her various passengers. The results are astonishing: though formally rigorous, even austere, and documentary-like in its style, 10 succeeds both as emotionally affecting human drama and as a critical analysis of everyday life in modern Tehran.In his study of the film, Geoff Andrew considers 10 within the context of Kiarostami's career, of Iranian cinema's renaissance, and of international film culture. Drawing on a number of detailed interviews he conducted with both Kiarostami and his lead actress, Andrew sheds light on the unusual methods used in making the film, on its political relevance, and on its remarkably subtle aesthetic. He also argues that 10 was an important turning-point in the career of a film-maker who was not only one of contemporary cinema's most accomplished practitioners but also one of its most radical experimentalists. Vorwort A study of Abbas Kiarostami's 2002 movie 10 in the BFI Film Classics series Zusammenfassung The Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami burst onto the international film scene in the early 1990s and was widely regarded as one of the most distinctive and talented modern-day directors. His major features - including Through the Olive Trees (1994), Taste of Cherry (1997) and The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) - are relatively modest in scale, contemplative and humanist in tone. In 2002, with 10, Kiarostami broke new ground, fixing one or two digital cameras on a car's dashboard to film ten conversations between the driver (Mania Akbari) and her various passengers. The results are astonishing: though formally rigorous, even austere, and documentary-like in its style, 10 succeeds both as emotionally affecting human drama and as a critical analysis of everyday life in modern Tehran.In his study of the film, Geoff Andrew considers 10 within the context of Kiarostami's career, of Iranian cinema's renaissance, and of international film culture. Drawing on a number of detailed interviews he conducted with both Kiarostami and his lead actress, Andrew sheds light on the unusual methods used in making the film, on its political relevance, and on its remarkably subtle aesthetic. He also argues that 10 was an important turning-point in the career of a film-maker who was not only one of contemporary cinema's most accomplished practitioners but also one of its most radical experimentalists. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Something Small 2. World Cinema at the Turn of the Millennium 3. Iranian Cinema: A Special Case 4. Abbas Kiarostami: A Very...

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Authors Geoff Andrew, Geoff (Programmer-at-Large for BFI Southbank) Andrew, Andrew Geoff
Publisher British Film Institute
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 25.03.2021
 
EAN 9781839022616
ISBN 978-1-83902-261-6
No. of pages 120
Dimensions 134 mm x 190 mm x 8 mm
Series BFI Film Classics
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet
Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre

Iran, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism

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