During opening day of the exhibition Kiarostami: Beyond the Frame, author Godfrey Cheshire will be signing copies of his book, Conversations with Kiarostami, in the Museum Store from 1-1:30 pm. Following the book signing, join us for an exclusive screening of Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy introduced by Godfrey Cheshire in the Noble Theater.
This book signing is free and open to the public. Books are available for purchase for $18 in the Museum Store. Tickets for all Kiarostami Film Retrospective screenings are included with same-day Museum admission and are free for members!
ABOUT THE BOOK
$18 in the Museum Store
Conversations with Kiarostami collects for the first time a far ranging series of interviews with the celebrated director Abbas Kiarostami by film critic, and Iranian cinema expert, Godfrey Cheshire. Conducted in the 1990s, these in-depth conversations offer a film-by-film account of Kiarostami’s views of his artistic development from his first short Bread and Alley in 1970 to the 1999 feature The Wind Will Carry Us, covering his lesser known, and seldom written about, shorts from earlier in his career, along with the masterworks that made him world famous, such as the Koker Trilogy (Where Is the Friend’s House?, And Life Goes On, Through the Olive Trees), Close-Up and Taste of Cherry. The book includes a Foreword by Ahmad Kiarostami, the director’s son, as well as an introduction from Cheshire that contextualizes the interviews and discusses his relationship with the director.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Godfrey Cheshire
An award-winning film critic based in New York, Godfrey Cheshire is known as the leading expert on Iranian cinema among U.S. film critics. He has written about the subject for publications including the New York Times, Variety, Newsweek, Film Comment and Cineaste. He is a co-founder of the Iranian Film Festival New York and the author of Conversations with Kiarostami (2019) and the forthcoming In the Time of Kiarostami: Writings on Iranian Cinema.
An award-winning film critic based in New York, Godfrey Cheshire is known as the leading expert on Iranian cinema among U.S. film critics. He has written about the subject for publications including the New York Times, Variety, Newsweek, Film Comment and Cineaste. He is a co-founder of the Iranian Film Festival New York and the author of Conversations with Kiarostami (2019) and the forthcoming In the Time of Kiarostami: Writings on Iranian Cinema.
