Harpur Cinema will be showing Like Someone in Love, a film by famed Iranian filmmaker, Abbas Kiarostami, this weekend. Set in Japan, the story follows a young hooker rescued by an older man. The film will be shown on Friday, March 7 and Sunday, March 9 in Lecture Hall 6 at 7:30 p.m. It will be introduced by Tomokari Nishikawa, assistant professor of Cinema. The Libraries have many DVDs and films by and about Kiarostami. Some are listed below.
All DVDs and VHS materials are available at the Circulation Desk in the Newcomb Reading Room
DVDs
Close-Up, directed by Abbas Kiraostami, (DVD) PN1997 .N39 2010
Taste of Cherry, directed by Abbas Kiarostami, DVD PN1997 .T3356 1999
Wind Will Carry Us, directed by Abbas Kiarostami, VHS PN1997 .B33 2002
Books
Out of Asia: the films of Akira Kurosawa, Satyajit Ray, Abbas Kiarostami, and Zhang Yimou, by Bert Cardullo, e-book
Abbas Kiarostami, by Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and Jonathan Rosenbaum, Fine Arts PN1998.3.K58 S23 2003
Close up: Iranian cinema, past, present and future, by Hamid Dabashi, Fine Arts PN1993.5.I846 D3 2001
A social history of Iranian cinema: the globalizing era, 1984-2010, volume 4, by Hamid Naficy, e-book
Like Someone in Love
