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Sabzian is an international film journal, hailing from Belgium.

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The Wind Will Carry Us 1999

Watched 12 Nov 2024

“What is a true auteur? It’s not a filmmaker who imposes his obsessions on his work, but someone who finally encounters his haunting images in the world without even looking for them, like a gift from reality.“ – Alain Bergala

On the occasion of Milestones: Early Short Work by Abbas Kiarostami, Sabzian recently republished two texts by French critic and director Alain Bergala. You can read them here!
The Bread and Alley 1970

Watched 12 Nov 2024

“Sometimes reality itself tells us that we shouldn’t cut the film, and that to get close to people one doesn’t necessarily need to bring the camera closer. One must wait, allow oneself the time to see things properly and discover them. Sometimes the close-up doesn’t mean you’re up close; on the contrary, it engenders distance. I saw that all the rules we had learnt in books didn’t work in practice with what we had in front of us.” – Abbas…

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Getting to Know the Big Wide World 1978

Watched 10 Jul 2024

“Of course there are directors who establish everything in advance. They see the preconceived plan as a hallmark of their personality and style as a director. Obviously, one can work like that, but I don’t believe in it. I embrace every coincidence. I don’t want to suppress coincidences; I want to investigate what they have to offer. Before shooting begins, you have a concept of each image: one frame looks like this, another like that. But everything changes. There’s too…
Good Morning 1959

Watched 07 Jun 2024

“So, sometimes a director who is very much a realist, working almost in a documentary mode like Ozu, sometimes he makes films also to hide something. There’s a secret somewhere in his films, and to assert certain things he must hide others. Maybe it’s necessary to step a bit outside of Japan, because what I’m about to say could make you uncomfortable, I don't know ... but for me, the true Japanese documentaries are by Ozu. All the people I…

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