M. Leary

Certified Copy (Kiarostami, 2011)

“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.” (David Foster Wallace)   It is hard to witness the simple acrobatics of Certified Copy and […]

Ron Reed

Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, 2002)

“Don’t you ever think about sin or guilt?”
“Why don’t you ask yourself the same question?”

Few films record the subtle transitions of the human soul with such reality and mystery, and with an artistry that seems so refreshingly artless.