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Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode, they discuss The Koker Trilogy, which contains Where Is the Friend’s House, And Life Goes On, and Through the Olive Trees.Abbas Kiarostami first came to international attention for this wondrous, slyly self-referential series of films set in the rural northern-Iranian town of Koker. Poised delicately between fiction and documentary, comedy and tragedy, the lyrical fables in The Koker Trilogy exemplify both the gentle humanism and the playful sleight of hand that define the director’s sensibility. With each successive film, Kiarostami takes us deeper into the behind-the-scenes “reality” of the film that preceded it, heightening our understanding of the complex network of human relationships that sustain both a movie set and a village. The result is a gradual outward zoom that reveals the cosmic majesty and mystery of ordinary life.Episode LinksThe Koker Trilogy – The Criterion CollectionWhere Is the Friend’s House (1987)And Life Goes On (1992)Through the Olive Trees (1994)Wikipedia — Abbas KiarostamiReverse Shot — Devika Girish on And Life Goes OnSlant Magazine ReviewPopMatters: The Towering Humanity in Abbas Kiarostami’s FilmsEpisode CreditsTrevor Berrett (Twitter/Website)David Blakeslee (TikTok/Facebook/Website) The Koker Trilogy (Where Is the Friend’s House?/And Life Goes On/Through the Olive Trees) (The... The Koker Trilogy (Where Is the Friend’s House?/And Life Goes On/Through the Olive Trees) (The... $49.99 $99.95 in stock 8 new from $44.97 as of January 29, 2022 1:48 am Check it out Amazon.com The Koker Trilogy (Blu-ray) The Koker Trilogy (Blu-ray) $64.99 in stock Check it out Target.com The Koker Trilogy (Criterion Collection) The Koker Trilogy (Criterion Collection) $74.65 $99.95 in stock Check it out Deepdiscount.com The Koker Trilogy [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray] [3 Discs] The Koker Trilogy [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray] [3 Discs] $79.99 Check it out Bestbuy.com