Kiarostami, Abbas
Summary: Filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami recreates the final three years of his life through twenty-four short films inspired by a collection of still images.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection Inc 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TWESummary: Mr. Badii, ceaselessly driving through the red-brown hills around Tehran in search of assistance in his suicide, receives from each of the men he asks for help a viewpoint on life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A photographer and his young wife are stranded in a remote village after their car breaks down. The only adult inhabitant leaves with the photographer to find help, leaving the woman to teach the village children, whose parents are nowhere to be found.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DESBinoche, Juliette
Summary: A British author on a book tour in Tuscany and a French art-gallery owner get to know each other over the course of an afternoon.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Behind the headline of a murder and a suicide, lies the story of a lonely man whose deep feelings of humiliation push him over the edge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellsprings Media 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CRISummary: A filmmaker travels to a remote mountain village secretly planning to record a local ritual ceremony surrounding an old dying woman. He befriends a local boy who ultimately becomes his informant on the fate of the old woman. As the rustling wind, golden light, and deep shadows of the village cast an alluring spell, the deathwatch drags on as the woman stubbornly clings to life, leaving the crew...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2002