Close-Up
Sep 30, 2005
(Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1990, 35mm, 100 min.)
Print courtesy of Zeitgeist Films
One our proudest achievements is championing Iranian cinema, especially the films of directors Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf. With five Seattle premieres and three Northwest premieres under our belt, we have shown everything from fiction to documentary to children's films from the fertile cinema of the Middle East.
In 1999, we had the Northwest premiere of CLOSE-UP, a film that breaks down all barriers between fact and fiction to tell the true story of a man arrested for impersonating the great Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The "actors" in the film are the actual people from the true story, with real footage from the imposter's trial cut in.
Plays with FOSTER ISLAND (Serge Gregory, 2004, 35mm, 6 min.)
"The greatest film of the 1990s!" -Godfrey Cheshire, NEW YORK PRESS