<story><title>With every good film I see, I feel reborn (1996)</title><url>https://www.sabzian.be/article/hossein-sabzian</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pizza</author><text>Context: this is Hossein Sabzian.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-up is his most radical, brilliant work. This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves. With its universal themes and fascinating narrative knots, Close-up has resonated with viewers around the world.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.criterion.com&amp;#x2F;films&amp;#x2F;1092-close-up&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.criterion.com&amp;#x2F;films&amp;#x2F;1092-close-up&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PyWoody</author><text>If anyone is looking for a streaming service to support, the Criterion Channel is phenomenal.&lt;p&gt;They do historical, current, American, gay, black, Latino, female, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, etc. films without any pretense other than a film in its honest self.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been introduced to so many films and ideas without pretext from the CC that I consider the fee worth it even as I return to the high seas.</text></comment>
<story><title>With every good film I see, I feel reborn (1996)</title><url>https://www.sabzian.be/article/hossein-sabzian</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pizza</author><text>Context: this is Hossein Sabzian.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-up is his most radical, brilliant work. This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves. With its universal themes and fascinating narrative knots, Close-up has resonated with viewers around the world.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.criterion.com&amp;#x2F;films&amp;#x2F;1092-close-up&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.criterion.com&amp;#x2F;films&amp;#x2F;1092-close-up&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>srcreigh</author><text>This is on my list now. Sounds similar to one of my favs, Charlie Kaufman&amp;#x27;s Adaptation, a movie about himself and his alter ego struggling to write an adaptation of a book.</text></comment>