Criterion has recently released Abbas Kiarostami's 1990 Close-Up, a film I've never seen but it looks amazing and is now at the top of my queue. Watch a clip here and read about the DVD here.
The critic Godfrey Cheshire, who has written extensively on Iranian cinema and contributed an essay to the Criterion DVD booklet, calls 'Close-Up' a version of 'The Bicycle Thief' in which what's stolen is not a bicycle but an identity.
