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The Koker trilogy /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC3063BD | The Criterion CollectionCC3063BD-1--CC3063BD-3 | The Criterion Collection | (discs)Language: Persian Original language: Persian Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 990. | Criterion collection ; 991. | Criterion collection ; 992.Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2019]Edition: Three Blu-ray special editionDescription: 3 videodiscs (281 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (30 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9781681436241
  • 1681436248
  • 9781681436258
  • 1681436256
  • 9781681436265
  • 1681436264
  • 9781681436272
  • 1681436272
Other title: ‏خانه دوست کجاست Other title: ‏زندگی و دیگر هیچ Other title: ‏زیر درختان زیتون‎ Other title:
  • 'Where is the friend's house?' original title: Khane-ye doust kodjast?
  • 'And life goes on' original title: Zendegi va digar hich
  • 'Through the olive trees' original title: Zire darakhatan zeyton
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
[disc 1]. Where is the friend's house? / the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children presents ; screenplay by Abbas Kiarostami ; produced by Ali Reza Zarrin ; directed by Abbas Kiarostami (83 min.) -- [disc 2]. And life goes on / the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children presents ; a film by Abbas Kiarostami ; produced by Ali Reza Zarrin ; written and directed by Abbas Kiarostami (95 min.) -- [disc 3]. Through the olive trees / MK2, CIBY Distribution [present] ; a film by Abbas Kiarostami ; written, produced, directed, and edited by Abbas Kiarostami ; [producer, Alain Depardieu] (103 min.).
Production credits:
  • Where is the friend's house: Director of photography, Farhad Saba ; editor, Changiz Sayad ; editor, Abbas Kiarostami.
  • And life goes on: Director of photography, Homayoun Payvar ; editors, Abbas Kiarostami, Changiz Sayad.
  • Through the olive trees: Editor, Abbas Kiarostami ; director of photography, Hossein Jafarian.
Cast: Where is the friend's house?: Babek Ahmadpour, Ahmad Ahmadpour, Kheda Barech Defai, Iran Outari.Cast: And life goes on: Farhad Kheradmand, Pouya Payvar, Hossein Rezai.Cast: Through the olive trees: Mohammad Ali Keshavarz, Farhad Kheradmand, Zarifeh Shiva, Hossein Rezai.Summary: Where is the friend's house?: A boy searches for the home of his classmate, whose school notebook he has accidentally taken -- and transforms it into a miraculous child's-eye adventure of the everyday.Summary: And life goes on: In the aftermath of the 1990 earthquake in Iran that left fifty thousand dead, Abbas Kiarostami returned to Koker, where his camera surveys not only devastation but also the teeming life in its wake. Blending fiction and reality into a playful, poignant road movie, the film follows a film director who, along with his son, makes the trek to the region in hopes of finding out if the young boys who acted in Where Is the Friend's House? are among the survivors, and discovers a resilient community pressing on in the face of tragedy.Summary: Through the olive trees: A depiction of the off-screen relationship between the actors who play the newlyweds in the film And Life Goes On. Unfolding behind the scenes, this film traces the complications that arise when the romantic misfortune of one of the actors -- a young man who pines for the woman cast as his wife, even though, in real life, she will have nothing to do with him -- creates turmoil on set and leaves the hapless director caught in the middle.Summary: Abbas Kiarostami first came to international attention for this wondrous, slyly self-referential series of films set in the rural northern-Iranian town of Koker. Poised delicately between fiction and documentary, comedy and tragedy, the lyrical fables in The Koker Trilogy exemplify both the gentle humanism and playful sleight of hand that define the director's sensibility. With each successive film, Kiarostami takes us deeper into the behind-the-scenes "reality" of the film that preceded it, heightening our understanding of the complex network of human relationships that sustain both a movie set and a village. The result is a gradual outward zoom that reveals the cosmic majesty and mystery of ordinary life.--Container.
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Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room BLU-00589 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050316082

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Where is the friend's house? originally released as a motion picture in 1987; And life goes on originally released as a motion picture in 1992; Through the olive trees, originally released as a motion picture in 1994.

Wide screen.

Special features on disc 1: Homework (1989), a feature-length documentary by Abbas Kiarostami ; conversation from 2015 between Abbas Kiarostami and programmer Peter Scarlet ; on disc 2: Audio commentary featuring Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and Jonathan Rosenbaum, coauthors of Abbas Kiarostami ; Abbas Kiarostami: truths and dreams, a 1994 documentary ; new interview with scholar Hamid Naficy ; on disc 3: new interview with Kiarostami's son Ahmad Kiarostami ; new conversation between scholar Jamsheed Akrami and critic Godfrey Cheshire ; new English subtitle translations ; essay by Cheshire on container insert.

[disc 1]. Where is the friend's house? / the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children presents ; screenplay by Abbas Kiarostami ; produced by Ali Reza Zarrin ; directed by Abbas Kiarostami (83 min.) -- [disc 2]. And life goes on / the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children presents ; a film by Abbas Kiarostami ; produced by Ali Reza Zarrin ; written and directed by Abbas Kiarostami (95 min.) -- [disc 3]. Through the olive trees / MK2, CIBY Distribution [present] ; a film by Abbas Kiarostami ; written, produced, directed, and edited by Abbas Kiarostami ; [producer, Alain Depardieu] (103 min.).

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Blu-ray, region A, wide screen (1.66:1), LPCM mono, requires Blu-ray player.

In Persian, with optional subtitles in English.

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