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The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 67 – Abbas Kiarostami: Early Shorts and Features [Part 4]

[https://criterioncast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/EV-banner-67.png]https://criterioncast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/EV-banner-67.png This podcast focuses on the Eclipse Series, box set editions of lost, forgotten, or overshadowed films recently revived by the Criterion Collection. Hosts David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett give an overview of each set and offer their perspectives on the unique treasures they find inside. In this last of four episodes, David and Trevor discuss six “School Films” (Two Solutions for One Problem, So Can I, Tribute to Teachers, Toothache, Orderly or Disorderly, and Homework) from Eclipse Series 47: Abbas Kiarostami – Early Shorts and Features [https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/8309-eclipse-series-47-abbas-kiarostami-early-shorts-and-features]. Eleven other films included in this set are covered in earlier episodes. About the films: > Long before he became one of the most renowned artists in world cinema, the great Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami began his cinematic career at Tehran’s Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (a.k.a. Kanoon), where he honed his distinctive style and themes. During his first decades as a filmmaker, Kiarostami moved freely among documentary, narrative, and even animation, and between joyous short films made for children and subtle works exploring the struggles of adolescents. Often using the classroom as a laboratory, he probed social and political tensions in Iranian society during the turbulent years before and after the 1979 revolution. Spanning his very first short, Bread and Alley (which the director called the “mother of all my films”); other underseen early revelations, like Experience and The Traveler; and nonfiction masterpieces such as Homework, the graceful, warm, and playful works collected here find moments of transcendent poetry within everyday life, and use deceptively simple premises to express universal truths about the human condition. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS or in iTunes. Eclipse Series 47: Abbas Kiarostami—Early Shorts and Features [https://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/product_images/2100-9335ca781182344aeb0f267737e6d08d/BoikNKcJOPDi9ZytPcUkkEDF9ttfHF_large.jpg] EPISODE LINKS PART 1: BEGINNINGS AND JOURNEYS (FEATURING COLORS, BREAD AND ALLEY, BREAKTIME, AND THE TRAVELER) [https://criterioncast.com/podcast/eclipse-viewer/episode-64-kiarostami-part-1] PART 2: ADOLESCENCE AND POVERTY (FEATURING EXPERIENCE AND A WEDDING SUIT) [https://criterioncast.com/podcast/eclipse-viewer/episode-65-kiarostami-part-2] PART 3: [https://criterioncast.com/podcast/eclipse-viewer/the-eclipse-viewer-episode-66-abbas-kiarostami-part-3] POLITICAL ALLEGORIES (FEATURING SOLUTION NO. 1, FIRST CASE, SECOND CASE, THE CHORUS, FELLOW CITIZEN, AND FIRST GRADERS) [https://criterioncast.com/podcast/eclipse-viewer/the-eclipse-viewer-episode-66-abbas-kiarostami-part-3] ABBAS KIAROSTAMI * The Criterion Collection [https://www.criterion.com/shop/browse?director=kiarostami-abbas] * The Criterion Channel [https://www.criterionchannel.com/search?q=abbas%20kiarostami] * Abbas Kiarostami’s Childhood Films [https://www.criterionchannel.com/abbas-kiarostami-s-childhood-films/season:1/videos/godfrey-cheshire-on-abbas-kiarostami-s-childhood-films] (Criterion Channel documentary short, suggested viewing mentioned on inside cover of the set) * Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbas_Kiarostami] * Letterboxd [https://letterboxd.com/director/abbas-kiarostami/] * Kiarostami Foundation [https://www.kiarostami.org/] * The American Scholar [https://theamericanscholar.org/remembering-abbas-kiarostami/] * British Journal of Photography [https://www.1854.photography/2016/07/remembering-abbas-kiarostami/] * Harper’s [https://harpers.org/archive/2019/06/the-films-of-abbas-kiarostami/] * Henna Platform [https://hennaplatform.com/en/the-rebellious-gaze-of-abbas-kiarostami/] * The Point [https://thepointmag.com/criticism/abbas-kiarostamis-transcendental-style/] * Senses of Cinema [https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2002/great-directors/kiarostami/] * ShotDeck [https://blog.shotdeck.com/new-shots/abbas-kiarostami-in-his-own-words/] * Sight & Sound [https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/news/abbas-kiarostami-1940-2016] * Mania Akbari Tells Her Story [https://fasikul.altyazi.net/in-english/mania-akbari-tells-her-own-story/] * Criterion – In Memoriam [https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4139-the-shortest-way-to-the-truth-kiarostami-remembered] BOX SET REVIEWS * Blu-ray.com [https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Eclipse-Series-47-Abbas-Kiarostami-Early-Shorts-and-Features-Blu-ray/394015/#Overview] * Home Theater Forum [https://www.hometheaterforum.com/abbas-kiarostami-early-shorts-and-features-criterion-eclipse-no-47-blu-ray-review/] * Let’s Talk Criterion (video) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdNQh2T9Eu4] * Under the Radar [https://www.undertheradarmag.com/reviews/eclipse_series_47_abbas_kiarostamiearly_shorts_and_features] TWO SOLUTIONS FOR ONE PROBLEM (1975) * The Criterion Collection [https://www.criterion.com/films/28645-two-solutions-for-one-problem] * The Criterion Channel [https://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/two-solutions-for-one-problem] * Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Solutions_for_One_Problem] * Letterboxd [https://letterboxd.com/film/two-solutions-to-one-problem/] * Kiarostami Foundation [https://www.kiarostami.org/film/two-solutions-for-one-problem] * Cagey Films [https://www.cageyfilms.com/2015/03/an-evening-with-jonathan-rosenbaum/] * Cinephilic Musings [https://www.cinephilicmusings.com/2022/07/two-solutions-for-one-problem-abbas.html] * The Cultural Me [https://thecultural.me/two-solutions-for-one-problem-abbas-kiarostamis-modern-day-parable-review-466481] * Webs of Significance [https://webs-of-significance.blogspot.com/2021/04/abbas-kiarostami-educates-with-first.html] SO CAN I (1975) * The Criterion Collection [https://www.criterion.com/films/29519-so-can-i] * The Criterion Channel [https://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/so-can-i] * Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Can_I] * Letterboxd [https://letterboxd.com/film/so-can-i/] * Kiarostami Foundation [https://www.kiarostami.org/film/so-can-i] TRIBUTE TO TEACHERS (1977) * The Criterion Collection [https://www.criterion.com/films/29521-tribute-to-teachers] * The Criterion Channel [https://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/tribute-to-teachers] * Letterboxd [https://letterboxd.com/film/tribute-to-the-teachers/] * Kiarostami Foundation [https://www.kiarostami.org/film/tribute-to-teachers] * Webs of Significance [https://webs-of-significance.blogspot.com/2021/04/abbas-kiarostami-educates-with-first.html] TOOTHACHE (1980) * The Criterion Collection [https://www.criterion.com/films/29524-toothache] * The Criterion Channel [https://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/toothache] * Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toothache_(film)] * Letterboxd [https://letterboxd.com/film/toothache/] * Kiarostami Foundation [https://www.kiarostami.org/film/toothache] ORDERLY OR DISORDERLY (1981) * The Criterion Collection [https://www.criterion.com/films/29525-orderly-or-disorderly] * The Criterion Channel [https://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/orderly-or-disorderly] * Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orderly_or_Disorderly] * Letterboxd [https://letterboxd.com/film/orderly-or-disorderly/] * Cagey Films [https://www.cageyfilms.com/2015/03/an-evening-with-jonathan-rosenbaum/] * Kiarostami Foundation [https://www.kiarostami.org/film/orderly-or-disorderly] HOMEWORK (1989) * The Criterion Collection [https://www.criterion.com/films/29518-homework] * The Criterion Channel [https://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/homework] * Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homework_(1989_film)] * Letterboxd [https://letterboxd.com/film/homework-1989/] * Kiarostami Foundation [https://www.kiarostami.org/film/homework] * Errata [http://www.erratamag.com/archives/2007/08/abbas_kiarostam.html] (podcast) * Senses of Cinema [https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2020/cteq/homework-abbas-kiarostami-1989/] CONTACT US * David Blakeslee ( TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@dee.ell.bee] / YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOOmY2tW9IY7VfNbZs495Aw] / Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/groups/477655832667582] / CriterionCast [https://criterioncast.com/author/david] / Blog [http://criterionreflections.blogspot.com/] ) * Trevor Berrett ( Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/mookse] / Website [http://mookseandgripes.com/reviews/] / The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast [https://mookse.substack.com/] ) [https://feeds.criterioncast.com/link/8306/17272105.gif]

Episode 219: An Interview with Aaron West, Author of The A24 New Wave

[https://criterioncast.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/A24.Cover-Banner.png]https://criterioncast.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/A24.Cover-Banner.png In this special episode of Criterion Cast, David Blakeslee interviews Aaron West, a longtime contributor to this site, about his new book The A24 New Wave, which will publish in May 2026. Their conversation gives a brief overview of A24’s history since the company began distributing films in 2012 (with their big breakthrough Spring Breakers) and went on from there to accelerate the careers of many of today’s most influential and respected directors, actors, and other talents. A24 has released many of the most impactful movies of the past decade-plus and this book offers insights and behind-the-scenes details on how those projects came together. Aaron also describes his creative process and shares some early insights on his plans for upcoming volumes exploring other chapters of cinema history. [https://criterioncast.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/A24.CoverFront.PR_-scaled-1.png]https://criterioncast.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/A24.CoverFront.PR_-scaled-1.png ABOUT THE BOOK: The A24 New Wave is the story of the foundation of the indie film powerhouse that championed new voices and transformed cinema. This comprehensive book explores the A24 way, their business practices, and the great cinema that changed the way movies are marketed and seen. Includes in-depth stories about filmmakers Barry Jenkins, Robert Eggers, Greta Gerwig, Sean Baker, Ari Aster, and so many more. For more information on how to order the book, visit CineJourneys! PRESS RELEASE  [https://cinejourneys.com/press-release-the-a24-new-wave/] CONTACT US: * David Blakeslee ( TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@dee.ell.bee] / YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOOmY2tW9IY7VfNbZs495Aw] / Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/groups/477655832667582] / CriterionCast [https://criterioncast.com/author/david] / Blog [https://criterionreflections.blogspot.com/] ) * Aaron West ( CineJourneys [https://cinejourneys.com/guides/aaron-west/] / Letterboxd [https://letterboxd.com/dsnt/] / Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/awest505.bsky.social] / Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/awest505/] ) [https://feeds.criterioncast.com/link/8306/17265283.gif]

The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 66 – Abbas Kiarostami: Early Shorts and Features [Part 3]

[https://criterioncast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/EV-banner-66.png]https://criterioncast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/EV-banner-66.png This podcast focuses on the Eclipse Series, box set editions of lost, forgotten, or overshadowed films recently revived by the Criterion Collection. Hosts David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett give an overview of each set and offer their perspectives on the unique treasures they find inside. In this episode, David and Trevor discuss five films (Solution No. 1, First Case/Second Case, The Chorus, Fellow Citizen, and First Graders) from Eclipse Series 47: Abbas Kiarostami – Early Shorts and Features [https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/8309-eclipse-series-47-abbas-kiarostami-early-shorts-and-features]. Thirteen other films included in this set are covered in other episodes. About the films: > Long before he became one of the most renowned artists in world cinema, the great Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami began his cinematic career at Tehran’s Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (a.k.a. Kanoon), where he honed his distinctive style and themes. During his first decades as a filmmaker, Kiarostami moved freely among documentary, narrative, and even animation, and between joyous short films made for children and subtle works exploring the struggles of adolescents. Often using the classroom as a laboratory, he probed social and political tensions in Iranian society during the turbulent years before and after the 1979 revolution. Spanning his very first short, Bread and Alley (which the director called the “mother of all my films”); other underseen early revelations, like Experience and The Traveler; and nonfiction masterpieces such as Homework, the graceful, warm, and playful works collected here find moments of transcendent poetry within everyday life, and use deceptively simple premises to express universal truths about the human condition. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS or in iTunes. Eclipse Series 47: Abbas Kiarostami—Early Shorts and Features [https://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/product_images/2100-9335ca781182344aeb0f267737e6d08d/BoikNKcJOPDi9ZytPcUkkEDF9ttfHF_large.jpg] EPISODE LINKS PART 1: BEGINNINGS AND JOURNEYS (FEATURING COLORS, BREAD AND ALLEY, BREAKTIME, AND THE TRAVELER) [https://criterioncast.com/podcast/eclipse-viewer/episode-64-kiarostami-part-1] PART 2: ADOLESCENCE AND POVERTY (FEATURING EXPERIENCE AND A WEDDING SUIT) [https://criterioncast.com/podcast/eclipse-viewer/episode-65-kiarostami-part-2] ABBAS KIAROSTAMI * The Criterion Collection [https://www.criterion.com/shop/browse?director=kiarostami-abbas] * The Criterion Channel [https://www.criterionchannel.com/search?q=abbas%20kiarostami] * Abbas Kiarostami’s Childhood Films [https://www.criterionchannel.com/abbas-kiarostami-s-childhood-films/season:1/videos/godfrey-cheshire-on-abbas-kiarostami-s-childhood-films] (Criterion Channel documentary short, suggested viewing mentioned on inside cover of the set) * Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbas_Kiarostami] * Letterboxd [https://letterboxd.com/director/abbas-kiarostami/] * The American Scholar [https://theamericanscholar.org/remembering-abbas-kiarostami/] * British Journal of Photography [https://www.1854.photography/2016/07/remembering-abbas-kiarostami/] * Harper’s [https://harpers.org/archive/2019/06/the-films-of-abbas-kiarostami/] * The Point [https://thepointmag.com/criticism/abbas-kiarostamis-transcendental-style/] * Senses of Cinema [https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2002/great-directors/kiarostami/] * ShotDeck [https://blog.shotdeck.com/new-shots/abbas-kiarostami-in-his-own-words/] * Sight & Sound [https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/news/abbas-kiarostami-1940-2016] * Criterion – In Memoriam [https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4139-the-shortest-way-to-the-truth-kiarostami-remembered] BOX SET REVIEWS * Blu-ray.com [https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Eclipse-Series-47-Abbas-Kiarostami-Early-Shorts-and-Features-Blu-ray/394015/#Overview] * Home Theater Forum [https://www.hometheaterforum.com/abbas-kiarostami-early-shorts-and-features-criterion-eclipse-no-47-blu-ray-review/] * Let’s Talk Criterion (video) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdNQh2T9Eu4] * Under the Radar [https://www.undertheradarmag.com/reviews/eclipse_series_47_abbas_kiarostamiearly_shorts_and_features] SOLUTION NO. 1 (1978) * The Criterion Collection [https://www.criterion.com/films/29523-solution-no-1] * Letterboxd [https://letterboxd.com/film/solution-no-1/] * Kiarostami.org [https://www.kiarostami.org/film/solution] * Notes on Cinematograph [https://notesoncinematograph.blogspot.com/2017/06/upcoming-screening-abbas-kiarostamis.html#more] FIRST CASE, SECOND CASE (1979) * The Criterion Collection [https://www.criterion.com/films/29515-first-case-second-case] * The Criterion Channel [https://www.criterionchannel.com/first-case-second-case] * Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Case,_Second_Case] * Letterboxd [https://letterboxd.com/film/first-case-second-case/] * Kiarostami.org [https://www.kiarostami.org/film/first-case-second-case] * Notes on Cinematograph [https://notesoncinematograph.blogspot.com/2019/06/first-case-second-case.html] * Webs of Significance [https://webs-of-significance.blogspot.com/2021/04/abbas-kiarostami-educates-with-first.html] THE CHORUS (1982) * The Criterion Collection [https://www.criterion.com/films/28644-the-chorus] * Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chorus_(1982_film)] * Letterboxd [https://letterboxd.com/film/the-chorus-1982/] * Kiarostami.org [https://www.kiarostami.org/film/the-chorus] * Notes on Cinematograph [https://notesoncinematograph.blogspot.com/2017/06/upcoming-screening-abbas-kiarostamis.html#more] * Asian Movie Pulse [https://asianmoviepulse.com/2024/11/short-film-review-the-chorus-1982-by-abbas-kiarostami/] FELLOW CITIZEN (1983) * The Criterion Collection [https://www.criterion.com/films/29516-fellow-citizen] * Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellow_Citizen] * Letterboxd [https://letterboxd.com/film/fellow-citizen/] * Kiarostami.org [https://www.kiarostami.org/film/fellow-citizen] * Senses of Cinema [https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2022/cteq/and-the-road-goes-on-fellow-citizen-abbas-kiarostami-1983/] * Pierre Henry’s “Psyche Rock” (featured in soundtrack, mentioned in episode): FIRST GRADERS (1984) * The Criterion Collection [https://www.criterion.com/films/29517-first-graders] * The Criterion Channel [https://www.criterionchannel.com/first-graders] * Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Graders] * Letterboxd [https://letterboxd.com/film/first-graders/] * Kiarostami.org [https://www.kiarostami.org/film/first-graders] * Notes on Cinematograph [https://notesoncinematograph.blogspot.com/2017/06/upcoming-screening-abbas-kiarostamis.html#more] * Filmofiles Hideout [https://filmofileshideout.com/archives/abbas-kiarostamis-early-documentary-first-graders/] CONTACT US * David Blakeslee ( TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@dee.ell.bee] / YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOOmY2tW9IY7VfNbZs495Aw] / Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/groups/477655832667582] / CriterionCast [https://criterioncast.com/author/david] / Blog [http://criterionreflections.blogspot.com/] ) * Trevor Berrett ( Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/mookse] / Website [http://mookseandgripes.com/reviews/] / The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast [https://mookse.substack.com/] ) [https://feeds.criterioncast.com/link/8306/17262160.gif]

Episode 218 – Criterion Collection Favorites of 2025

[https://criterioncast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Favorites-of-2025-Banner.png]https://criterioncast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Favorites-of-2025-Banner.png In our annual episode focusing on The Criterion Collection [https://www.criterion.com/]’s releases from the past year – and there’s a lot to celebrate! – we’ve assembled a panel of CriterionCast regulars to share our favorite releases of 2025. David Blakeslee from Criterion Reflections [https://criterioncast.com/category/podcast/criterion-reflections] hosts this discussion, which also includes Aaron West and Brad McDermott. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS [https://criterioncast.com/category/podcast/feed/] or in iTunes ---------------------------------------- EPISODE NOTES AARON’S LIST * Favorite Cover/Packaging: I Know Where I’m Going [https://www.criterion.com/films/633-i-know-where-i-m-going] by Thinh Dihn [https://thinh-dinh.com/] * Favorite Releases 1. Anora [https://www.criterion.com/films/34891-anora] 2. The Grifters [https://www.criterion.com/films/30526-the-grifters] 3. Flow [https://www.criterion.com/films/34685-flow] BRAD’S LIST * Favorite Cover/Packaging: Altered States [https://www.criterion.com/films/29506-altered-states] by Richey Beckett [https://www.richeybeckett.com/] * Favorite Releases 1. Eyes Wide Shut [https://www.criterion.com/films/34534-eyes-wide-shut] 2. Born in Flames [https://www.criterion.com/films/30707-born-in-flames] 3. Return to Reason: 4 Films by Man Ray [https://www.criterion.com/films/34101-return-to-reason-four-films-by-man-ray] DAVID’S LIST * Favorite Cover/Packaging: The Wages of Fear [https://www.criterion.com/films/370-the-wages-of-fear] by Juan Esteban R. [https://www.juanestebanartwork.com/] * Favorite Releases 1. Eclipse Series 47: Abbas Kiarostami – Early Shorts and Features [https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/8309-eclipse-series-47-abbas-kiarostami-early-shorts-and-features] 2. Sorcerer [https://www.criterion.com/films/34370-sorcerer] 3. Él [https://www.criterion.com/films/33695-el] Criterion 2025 Factoids * 82 Total Releases (including Janus Contemporaries/Criterion Premieres, Eclipse 47, and Wes Anderson Archive) * 50 new spine numbers (The Mother and the Whore #1245 thru David Byrne’s American Utopia #1294, though House Party #1287 was delayed until 2026) * 25 Upgrades/Reissues of previous spine numbers (including Laserdiscs) * 16 Standard Upgrades from Blu-ray to 4K * 2 Blu-ray to 4K Upgrades were new packages (Wages of Fear, Umbrellas of Cherbourg) * 4 In-print DVDs to 4K Upgrades * 4 OOP DVDs returned, 3 to 4K Upgrades, 1 to Blu-ray * 11 of the new spine numbers released in DVD format * Only three-format (4K/BR/DVD) releases of 2025 were: * The Mother and the Whore * The Wages of Fear * Anora * Shoeshine * Flow * David Byrne’s American Utopia EPISODE CREDITS * Brad McDermott ( Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/mrbradmcd/] / Letterboxd [https://letterboxd.com/mrbradmcd/] / Gallery [https://www.artgalleria.com/folio/artists/127702]) * Aaron West ( CineJourneys [https://www.cinejourneys.com/] / Substack [http://Cinejourneys346.substack.com] ) * David Blakeslee ( TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@dee.ell.bee] / Website [https://criterioncast.com/author/david] / Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/CriterionReflections/] / Letterboxd [https://letterboxd.com/DavidBlakeslee/] ) PAST FAVORITES OF THE YEAR EPISODES * Episode 216 – Criterion Collection Favorites of 2024 [https://criterioncast.com/podcast/criterioncast-episodes/best-of-the-year/episode-216-criterion-collection-favorites-of-2024] * Episode 215 – Criterion Collection Favorites of 2023 [https://criterioncast.com/podcast/criterioncast-episodes/best-of-the-year/episode-215-favorites-of-2023] * Episode 214 – Criterion Collection Favorites of 2022 [https://criterioncast.com/podcast/criterioncast-episodes/best-of-the-year/episode-214-favorites-of-2022] * Episode 213 – Criterion Collection Favorites of 2021 [https://criterioncast.com/category/podcast/criterioncast-episodes/best-of-the-year] * Episode 212 – Criterion Collection Favorites of 2020 [https://criterioncast.com/podcast/criterioncast-episodes/episode-212-criterion-collection-favorites-of-2020] * Episode 202 – Criterion Collection Favorites of 2019 [https://criterioncast.com/podcast/criterioncast-episodes/episode-203-criterion-collection-favorites-of-2019] * Episode 195 – Criterion Collection Favorites of 2018 [https://criterioncast.com/podcast/criterioncast-episodes/episode-195-criterion-collection-favorites-of-2018] * Episode 189: Criterion Collection Favorites of 2017 [https://criterioncast.com/podcast/criterioncast-episodes/151-200/episode-189-favorites-of-2017] * Episode 180: Criterion Collection Favorites of 2016 [https://criterioncast.com”https://criterioncast.com/podcast/criterioncast-episodes/ep-180-favorites-of-2016”] * Episode 167: Criterion Collection Favorites of 2015 [https://criterioncast.com”https://criterioncast.com/podcast/criterioncast-episodes/episode-167-criterion-collection-favorites-of-2015”] * Episode 152: Our Favorite Criterion Collection Releases from 2014 [https://criterioncast.com”https://criterioncast.com/podcast/criterioncast-episodes/episode-152-our-favorite-criterion-collection-releases-from-2014”] * Episode 145: Our Favorite Criterion Collection Releases from 2013 [https://criterioncast.com”https://criterioncast.com/podcast/criterioncast-episodes/episode-145-our-favorite-criterion-collection-releases-from-2013”] * Episode 135: Favorite Criterion Collection Releases of 2012 [https://criterioncast.com”https://criterioncast.com/podcast/criterioncast-episodes/episode-135”] * Episode 108: Our Favorite Criterion Collection Releases of 2011 [https://criterioncast.com”https://criterioncast.com/podcast/criterioncast-episodes/episode-108-our-favorite-criterion-collection-releases-of-2011”] * Episode 63.5: Top Criterion Collection Releases of 2010 [https://criterioncast.com”https://criterioncast.com/podcast/disc-2-episodes/episode-063-5-best-of-2010”]   [https://feeds.criterioncast.com/link/8306/17244680.gif]

The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 65 – Abbas Kiarostami: Early Shorts and Features [Part 2]

[https://criterioncast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/EV-banner-65.png]https://criterioncast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/EV-banner-65.png This podcast focuses on the Eclipse Series, box set editions of lost, forgotten, or overshadowed films recently revived by the Criterion Collection. Hosts David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett give an overview of each set and offer their perspectives on the unique treasures they find inside. In this episode, David and Trevor discuss two films (Experience and A Wedding Suit) from Eclipse Series 47: Abbas Kiarostami – Early Shorts and Features [https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/8309-eclipse-series-47-abbas-kiarostami-early-shorts-and-features]. Thirteen other films included in this set will be covered in future episodes. About the films: > Long before he became one of the most renowned artists in world cinema, the great Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami began his cinematic career at Tehran’s Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (a.k.a. Kanoon), where he honed his distinctive style and themes. During his first decades as a filmmaker, Kiarostami moved freely among documentary, narrative, and even animation, and between joyous short films made for children and subtle works exploring the struggles of adolescents. Often using the classroom as a laboratory, he probed social and political tensions in Iranian society during the turbulent years before and after the 1979 revolution. Spanning his very first short, Bread and Alley (which the director called the “mother of all my films”); other underseen early revelations, like Experience and The Traveler; and nonfiction masterpieces such as Homework, the graceful, warm, and playful works collected here find moments of transcendent poetry within everyday life, and use deceptively simple premises to express universal truths about the human condition. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS or in iTunes. Eclipse Series 47: Abbas Kiarostami—Early Shorts and Features [https://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/product_images/2100-9335ca781182344aeb0f267737e6d08d/BoikNKcJOPDi9ZytPcUkkEDF9ttfHF_large.jpg] EPISODE LINKS PART 1: BEGINNINGS AND JOURNEYS (FEATURING COLORS, BREAD AND ALLEY, BREAKTIME, AND THE TRAVELER) [https://criterioncast.com/podcast/eclipse-viewer/episode-64-kiarostami-part-1] PART 3: [https://criterioncast.com/podcast/eclipse-viewer/the-eclipse-viewer-episode-66-abbas-kiarostami-part-3] POLITICAL ALLEGORIES (FEATURING SOLUTION NO. 1, FIRST CASE, SECOND CASE, THE CHORUS, FELLOW CITIZEN, AND FIRST GRADERS) [https://criterioncast.com/podcast/eclipse-viewer/the-eclipse-viewer-episode-66-abbas-kiarostami-part-3] ABBAS KIAROSTAMI * The Criterion Collection [https://www.criterion.com/shop/browse?director=kiarostami-abbas] * The Criterion Channel [https://www.criterionchannel.com/search?q=abbas%20kiarostami] * Abbas Kiarostami’s Childhood Films [https://www.criterionchannel.com/abbas-kiarostami-s-childhood-films/season:1/videos/godfrey-cheshire-on-abbas-kiarostami-s-childhood-films] (Criterion Channel documentary short, suggested viewing mentioned on inside cover of the set) * Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbas_Kiarostami] * Letterboxd [https://letterboxd.com/director/abbas-kiarostami/] * The American Scholar [https://theamericanscholar.org/remembering-abbas-kiarostami/] * British Journal of Photography [https://www.1854.photography/2016/07/remembering-abbas-kiarostami/] * Harper’s [https://harpers.org/archive/2019/06/the-films-of-abbas-kiarostami/] * The Point [https://thepointmag.com/criticism/abbas-kiarostamis-transcendental-style/] * Senses of Cinema [https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2002/great-directors/kiarostami/] * ShotDeck [https://blog.shotdeck.com/new-shots/abbas-kiarostami-in-his-own-words/] * Sight & Sound [https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/news/abbas-kiarostami-1940-2016] * Criterion – In Memoriam [https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4139-the-shortest-way-to-the-truth-kiarostami-remembered] BOX SET REVIEWS * Blu-ray.com [https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Eclipse-Series-47-Abbas-Kiarostami-Early-Shorts-and-Features-Blu-ray/394015/#Overview] * Home Theater Forum [https://www.hometheaterforum.com/abbas-kiarostami-early-shorts-and-features-criterion-eclipse-no-47-blu-ray-review/] * Let’s Talk Criterion (video) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdNQh2T9Eu4] * Under the Radar [https://www.undertheradarmag.com/reviews/eclipse_series_47_abbas_kiarostamiearly_shorts_and_features] * Wall Street Journal [https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/film/the-quiet-humanity-of-abbas-kiarostami-9d109fdd] EXPERIENCE (1973) * The Criterion Collection [https://www.criterion.com/films/28640-experience] * The Criterion Channel [https://www.criterionchannel.com/experience] * Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Experience_(film)] * Letterboxd [https://letterboxd.com/film/experience-1973/] * In Review Online [https://inreviewonline.com/2011/08/22/the-experience/] * Senses of Cinema [https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2020/cteq/experience-abbas-kiarostami-1973/] A WEDDING SUIT (1976) * The Criterion Collection [https://www.criterion.com/films/28641-a-wedding-suit] * The Criterion Channel [https://www.criterionchannel.com/a-wedding-suit] * Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wedding_Suit] * Letterboxd [https://letterboxd.com/film/a-wedding-suit/] * In Review Online [https://inreviewonline.com/2011/08/22/a-suit-for-wedding/] * Senses of Cinema [https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2022/cteq/a-wedding-suit-abbas-kiarostami-1976/] CONTACT US * David Blakeslee ( TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@dee.ell.bee] / YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOOmY2tW9IY7VfNbZs495Aw] / Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/groups/477655832667582] / CriterionCast [https://criterioncast.com/author/david] / Blog [http://criterionreflections.blogspot.com/] ) * Trevor Berrett ( Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/mookse] / Website [http://mookseandgripes.com/reviews/] / The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast [https://mookse.substack.com/] ) [https://feeds.criterioncast.com/link/8306/17234604.gif]