Iran’s ‘24 Frames’ among 2018 top 10

Well-known Film Stage critic Nick Newman has released a list of Top 10 Films in 2018 which includes ‘24 Frames’ by late-great Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami.

’24 Frames’ is an experimental film that includes 24 still images every one of which lasts for 4:30 minutes.

The film was screened at the 70th edition of the Cannes Film Festival.

The UK-based newspaper The Guardian also praised ‘24 Frames’ after it was screened at the Cannes.

Here is Nick Newman’s list of top 10 films in 2018:

• ‘Lover for a Day’ by Philippe Garrel

• ‘Claire’s Camera’  and ‘The Day After’ by Hong Sangsoo

• ‘A Paris Education’ by Jean-Paul Civeyrac

• ‘First Reformed’ by Paul Schrader

• ‘Before We Vanish’ by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

• ‘The Mule’ by Clint Eastwood

• ‘John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection’ by Julien Faraut

• ‘The Green Fog’ by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, & Galen Johnson

• ‘Let the Sunshine In’ by Claire Denis

• ‘24 Frames’ by Abbas Kiarostami

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