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One of the hot tickets at the New York Film Festival last week was
Ten
, a deceptively simple movie about an Iranian woman and her car. Its two screenings sold out immediately, says festival director Richard Peña. But one key invitee wasn't able to make it the celebrated director Abbas Kiarostami, who made
Ten
and was scheduled to lead a post-screening discussion about it. Because of post-9/11 security measures, he was stuck at home in Tehran. Asked about the matter, Kiarostami gives a modest shrug of resignation. "Perhaps you should write a piece on the role of terrorists in filmmaking,"...