#39 — Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010) Fittingly, Certified Copy had its genesis in a ruse. Lore has it that Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami was chatting with his friend Juliette Binoche, disguising a fictional story he’d concocted as an anecdote … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 10s — Number Thirty-Nine
The Help (Tate Taylor, 2011). I think a strong, important movie can (and arguably should) be made about the continued racial-based social inequities imposed in the American South–really all over the country, but those below the Mason-Dixon line had a special skill for it–in the early nineteen-sixties as the power of the Civil Rights movement was beginning the much needed push back against the monied classes that wanted to maintain some diluted but still despicable variation on the slavery system abolished about a century earlier. The Help, for all its noble intentions, simply isn’t that movie. Even putting aside the … Continue reading Clooney, Goldwyn, Kiarostami, Taylor, Vaughn
In Certified Copy, written and directed by Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, an English writer is in Italy on a book tour, promoting his latest work which examines the philosophical underpinnings of art itself, challenging the very notion of authenticity considering … Continue reading Top Ten Movies of 2011 — Number Four
Coffee for Two 