Are they or aren't they? That's the question that will dog you throughout Certified Copy, writer-director Abbas Kiarostami's first feature filmed outside of Iran. Juliette Binoche took Cannes' best actress price for her role as Elle, a Tuscany gallery owner who's a little too enthusiastic about a reading by James Miller (opera singer William [...]

Morning, readers.
*Yesterday, Mike West reported on the death at 90 of bop pianist Hank Jones (right). Below the jump, find a lilting little rendition of "Willow Weep for Me."
*The 40th anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's death has supplied us with a) a lot of excitement over B-sides and b) further evidence that Hendrix remains better appreciated [...]

The Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami has long blurred fiction and reality—in his films, it’s never clear what reflects the real world and what’s been plucked from the director’s interior universe. A subset of such ambiguity is Kiarostami’s interest in art, its intent, and how it affects us. His 1997 film Taste of Cherry ended with [...]