Hit Factory

Pop culture critic Roxana Hadadi returns to discuss the landmark 1990 Iranian masterpiece 'Close-Up' directed by Abbas Kiarostami. We explore the film's multiple layers of artifice, the fundamental truths they conceal, and reflect on finding joy in Kiarostami's cinema of absence. Read Roxana's piece on Kiarostami's 'Through the Olive Trees' at Bright Wall/Dark Room.
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Our theme song is 'Mirror' by Chris Fish.

Show Notes

Pop culture critic Roxana Hadadi returns to discuss the landmark 1990 Iranian masterpiece 'Close-Up', directed by Abbas Kiarostami. We explore the film's multiple layers of artifice, the fundamental truths those layers reveal, and reflect on finding joy in Kiarostami's cinema of absence. Read Roxana's piece on 'Through the Olive Trees' at Bright Wall/Dark Room.
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Our theme song is 'Mirror' by Chris Fish.

What is Hit Factory?

A podcast about the films of the 1990s, their politics, and how the inform today's film landscape. Exploring the output of a seemingly bottomless decade. America's first and only movie podcast.