Curating Kiarostami

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Curating Kiarostami Abbas Klarostami. by Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and Jonathan Rosenbaum. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.160 pp. $34.95 cloth; $16.95 paper.

As the Abbas Kiarostatni circle widens, so too does the need for solid scholarship both on this important filmmaker and on the context of Iranian images more generally. Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and Jonathan Rosenbaum's Abbas Ktarostami, part of the Contemporary Film Directors series edited by James Naremore for the University of Illinois Press, is a potentially important book-length entry into this expanding field. The collection of writings is at its best when its authors steer away from sometimes redundant discussions of …