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Fact and poetry in Kiarostami’s Close UpAbbas Kiarostami’s Close Up (1990) opens with a reporter in a Tehran taxicab, on the way to the residence of a middle-class family. He…Dec 29, 2020Dec 29, 2020
A melodrama in a haunted house: tracing genre influences in Grey GardensDavid and Albert Maysles’ documentary film Grey Gardens (1975), a portrait of “Big Edie” and “Little Edie” Beale — a mother and daughter…Jun 4, 2019Jun 4, 2019