100px|Abbas Kiarostami at the 65th Venice Film Festival in 2008
Abbas Kiarostami (born 1940) is an internationally acclaimed Iranian
film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer. An active
filmmaker since 1970, Kiarostami has been involved in over forty films,
including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical
acclaim for directing the Koker Trilogy (1987–94), Taste of Cherry
(1997), and The Wind Will Carry Us (1999). Kiarostami has worked
extensively as a screenwriter, film editor, art director and producer
and has designed credit titles and publicity material. He is also a
poet, photographer, painter, illustrator, and graphic designer.
Kiarostami is part of a generation of filmmakers in the Iranian New
Wave, a Persian cinema movement that started in the late 1960s and
includes pioneering directors such as Forough Farrokhzad, Sohrab Shahid
Saless, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Bahram Beizai, and Parviz Kimiavi. The
filmmakers share many common techniques including the use of poetic
dialogue and allegorical storytelling dealing with political and
philosophical issues. Kiarostami has a reputation for using child
protagonists, for documentary style narrative films, for stories that
take place in rural villages, and for conversations that unfold inside
cars, using stationary mounted cameras. (more...)
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1600:
Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno, best-known as a proponent of
heliocentrism and the infinity of the universe, was burned at the stake
as a heretic by the Roman Inquisition.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno>
1859:
The French Navy captured the Citadel of Saigon, a fortress that was
manned by 1,000 Nguyễn Dynasty soldiers, en route to conquering Saigon
and other regions of southern Vietnam.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_of_Saigon>
1862:
American Civil War: The Union Army captured Columbia, South Carolina,
and began burning it to the ground.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Columbia>
1913:
In the U.S. National Guard's 69th Regiment Armory in New York City, the
Armory Show opened, introducing Americans to avant-garde and modern
art.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armory_Show>
2006:
A massive landslide in the Philippine province of Southern Leyte
killed over 1,000 people.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Southern_Leyte_mudslide>
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ultracrepidarian (adj):
Of a critic, giving opinions on something beyond his or her knowledge
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I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without
participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus
nothing can be free of the Divine Presence.
--Giordano Bruno
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