Böcker av Abbas Kiarostami

Negli ultimi vent'anni, Abbas Kiarostami, il regista iraniano di Dov'e¿ la casa del mio amico, E la vita continua, Sotto gli ulivi, Close-Up, Il sapore della ciliegia, Il vento ci porterä via, Dieci, Shirin, Copia conforme e Qualcuno da amare, e¿ stato una presenza regolare ai festival e nei campus, dove ha lavorato scrupolosamente con i registi esordienti fornendo ispirazione per i loro film e progetti, facendoli uscire con le proprie telecamere, proiettando e discutendo i risultati.Ottenuto unendo gli appunti presi per quasi dieci anni durante i suoi laboratori, A lezione con Kiarostami è un concentrato delle sue tecniche registiche e dei suoi metodi di lavoro, ma soprattutto è una serie di linee guida per aspiranti registi.

Over the past two decades, Abbas Kiarostami - the Iranian film director of Where is the Friend's House?, Life and Nothing More, Through the Olive Trees, Close Up, A Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us, Ten, Shirin, Certified Copy and Like Someone in Love - has appeared regularly at festivals and on campuses, where he has worked closely for several days with young filmmakers, shepherding them and their projects, sending them out with cameras, then screening and discussing the results.Pieced together from notes made over a period of nearly ten years at several of these workshops, Lessons with Kiarostami is a distillation of Kiarostami's filmmaking techniques and working methods, and most importantly a series of practical guideposts for aspiring filmmakers.

Between 2006 and 2011, Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami released his selections from and adaptations of four masters of Persian poetry: Nima (1895-1960), Hafez, Saadi and Rumi (all from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries). In 2015, shortly before his death, Kiarostami published two further volumes, the thematic anthology Night, his selections from a variety of classical and contemporary poets.These books are in addition to his three volumes of original verse: A Wolf on Watch (2005), With the Wind (2006) and Wind and Leaf (2011). In the Shadow of Trees brings together English translations of all these books.This book contains the same text as ISBN 1942782292/13: 978-1942782292. It is printed on less expensive paper and has a different cover design. It is not a dual-language edition and contains only text in English.