Ty, Deepayan and Tom delve in to Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami through his films Close-Up (1990) and Certified Copy (2010), which ambiguously debate the validity of authenticity and the general nature of art and perception. To open, Tom covers the 3rd Naples International Film Festival with reactions to Valerie Weiss’ Losing Control and the forthcoming distribution of Joke Fincioen and Biagio Messina’s documentary on cancer-stricken comedian Steve Mazan, Dying to Do Letterman.
Next week: Béla Tarr!
Ha, whoops! Just learned that the lovely woman I had the pleasure of meeting at NIFF in relation to “Dying to Do Letterman” is in fact Denise, Steve Mazan’s wife, not Joke Fincioen as I stated her to be in the podcast. As far as I know, Joke is actually male. Another example of “Where would I be without Mark Zuckerberg?”