Close-Up (#519) USED MGM Howie finds himself increasingly isolated

Howie finds himself increasingly isolated and humiliated by the actions of the island’s community

Audio commentary with director James Wong and various crew members

and scholars Gerald R

expansive essay by author Cerise Howard

Close-Up (#519) USED MGM Howie finds himself increasingly isolatedInternationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry, Ten) 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 well known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation