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In tribute to the great New Hollywood director, who has died aged 89, we republish this expansive interview in which he analysed the idiosyncrasies of his first four features.
After vanishing for four decades following its premiere, Mohammad Reza Aslani’s masterpiece has been resurrected – a blank gloriously filled in the atlas of world cinema.