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Nema-ye nazdik (Motion picture)
Title
Close-up / Janus Films ; director, Abbas Kiarostami.
ISBN
9781604653021
1604653027
Edition
Special ed.
Published
[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, c2010.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Notes
Title from web page.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1990.
Special features: Audio commentary by Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and Jonathan Rosenbaum; The traveler, director Abba Kiarostami's first film; "Close-up" long shot, a documentary on Close-up's central figure, Hossein Sabzian six years after the film; new video interview with Abbas Kiarostami; A walk with Kiarostami (2003), a documentary portrait of the director by Iranian film professor Jamsheed Akrami.
Accompanying booklet includes essay by film critic Godfrey Cheshire.
Photography, Ali-Reza Zarrindast ; editing, Abbas Kiarostami ; music, Kambiz Roushavavan.
Persian dialogue with English subtitles.
Summary
The arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated well-known filmmaker, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, is the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence. Real people from the case play themselves.
Variant and related titles
Mossafer (Motion picture)
Close-up long shot (Motion picture)
Walk with Kiarostami (Motion picture)
Traveler.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
Persian
Added to Catalog
February 08, 2019
Series
Criterion collection ; 519
Credits
Photography, Ali-Reza Zarrindast ; editing, Abbas Kiarostami ; music, Kambiz Roushavavan.
Cast
Hossein Sabzian, Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mahrokh Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah, Houshang Shamai, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Hassan Farazmand.
System details note
Blu-ray; Region A; fullscreen (1.33:1 aspect ratio); mono.; requires Blu-ray player.
Videorecording number
CC1914BD The Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Feature films.
Feature films.
Documentary-style films.
Documentary-style films.
Drama.
Feature films.
Also listed under
Janus Films.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
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