DIGITAL FRONTIERS: "Certified Copy" (2010, Dir: Abbas Kiarostami)
Aug 01, 2025•1 hr 53 min
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Episode description
Welcome. In this episode Matt and Corbin talk about Abbas Kiarostami's 2010 brainscrew "Certified Copy," a movie about two strangers hanging out in the Italian countryside. Topics include: Binoche's performence, an anchor in a storm, Kiarostami as a natural candiate for digital cinema owing to his particular unfussiness, and Walter Benjamin. So much Walter Benjamin.
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