Bread & Alley 1970 نان و کوچه

astore.amazon.com “I believe the films of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami are extraordinary. Words cannot relate my feelings. I suggest you see his films; and then you will see what I mean” – Akira Kurosawa – Abbas Kiarostami was born on June 22nd 1940 in Tehran, he was interested in the arts from an early age. He won a painting competition at the age of eighteen, and left home to study at Tehran University’s Faculty of Fine Arts. As a designer and illustrator, Kiarostami worked throughout the ’60s in advertising, making commercials, designing posters, creating credit titles for films, and illustrating children’s books. In 1969 Kiarostami helped to set up a filmmaking department at the Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults. The department’s debut production was Kiarostami’s own first film, “Bread and Alley” (Naan va Koche.) The department would go on to become one of Iran’s most famous film studios, producing not only Kiarostami’s films, but also such modern Iranian classics as The Runner (Amir Naderi) and Bashu, the Little Stranger (Bahrab Beyzaii.) But it was not until the late ’80s that his films began to be shown outside Iran. He received his first most important recognition with “Where is the Friend’s House?” (Khaneh Doost Kodjast?), winning the Pardo di bronzo at Locarno in 1987. “Life Goes On” (Va Zendegi edameh darad) in 1992 (the first of Kiarostami’s films to be shown at the New York Film Festival) won the Rossellini Prize at …
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This is the single most important game of the modern basketball era. Also, it kept solidifying the fact that MJ saved his best for the best teams. MJ rarely cared to score big against poor teams unless he had to since it was a chance to get the team to play. In MJ’s first 19 games vs. Detroit, he averaged 36ppg including a 61pt spanking the year before (a game I also have edited on youtube.com). After this 59pt game on national TV on Easter Sunday in front of a record crowd at Detroit, the Pistons’ coach Daly had enough. He vowed never to let MJ beat them again. Born was the beginning of the most awesome defense ever – “The Jordan Rules”. The basics of the defense were to ‘funnel MJ to the middle so the big guys could knock him on his butt’. But, the defense was so specific that there was a rule for what to do wherever MJ had the ball. Go here: sportsillustrated.cnn.com The “Jordan Rules” went on to revolutionize the game – making defense win championships. The Pistons went on to win two titles and their ‘bruiserball’ defense on Jordan forced the NBA to invent the flagrant foul. The Knicks and the Heat copied this football style and soon, the league’s scoring plummeted. MJ, still scoring 30+ ppg was unaffected with his insane skills but the league itself couldn’t score. We saw in the 90s, slow games with teams scoring just 60 points each with no one able to make any shots. After MJ retired, the NBA tinkered with the rules to get scoring back up and today, we are still …