http://theseventhart.info/2009/04/16/flashback-51/ "Cinema does not cry. Cinema does not comfort us. It is with us. It is us" Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:11:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://theseventhart.info/2009/04/16/flashback-51/#comment-2827 Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:54:11 +0000 http://theseventhart.info/?p=1794#comment-2827 [...] as a kind of mirror for introspection. Be the mirror pointed towards the society at large, as in Homework (1989) and Ten (2002), or towards cinema, like in Close-Up (1990) and Five (2003), or towards the [...]

]]> http://theseventhart.info/2009/04/16/flashback-51/#comment-2448 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:23:04 +0000 http://theseventhart.info/?p=1794#comment-2448 [...] hold it. Mysterious Object at Noon is, perhaps, closest in style and intent to Abbas Kiarostami’s Homework (1989), in which the director brings down a whole nation sitting in a stuffy room with a bunch of [...]

]]> http://theseventhart.info/2009/04/16/flashback-51/#comment-2169 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:08:39 +0000 http://theseventhart.info/?p=1794#comment-2169 [...] Shahid Saless’ Still Life (1974) is, barring Kiarostami’s Homework (1989), the greatest Iranian film that I’ve seen. To see that even during the pre-revolution era, [...]

]]> http://theseventhart.info/2009/04/16/flashback-51/#comment-1384 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:06:33 +0000 http://theseventhart.info/?p=1794#comment-1384 [...] period as in The Traveller (1974), the educational and domestic structure of the country as in Homework (1989) or the women’s issue in Ten [...]

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