New Delhi: ‘Vicky Donor’, a quirky Bollywood film about the travails of an unusually virile, but broke sperm donor, has left the ribs of an otherwise moralistic mainstream Indian audience, tickling. The relatively low budget film directed by Shoojit [...]
CAIRO: “All films are the same.” That is what Um Salman (Huda Sultan) told her husband Bu (Mubarak Khamis) on a certain night while watching a film on TV, after he had asked her if they hadn’t seen that movie before. The question is two-fold: On the one hand, haven’t we seen all the movies [...]
CAIRO: In “Aesthetics of Silence” (1967) Susan Sontag writes: “Every era has to re-invent the project of “spirituality” for itself. (Spirituality = plans, terminologies, ideas of deportment, aimed at resolving the painful structural conditions inherent in human situations, at the completion of human consciousness, at transcendence.) In the modern era, one of the most active [...]
CAIRO: “Who would leave the sea and build his house in the desert?” is the question posed by Hussain, lifelong friend of Mohammed, the main character in “The Good Omen” (Al Bishara), a short-film from Bahrain by director Mohammed Rashed Bu Ali and one of the first internationally screened films, produced in the tiny island-kingdom. [...]
From late 1917 until 1919, Franz Kafka wrote entries in his diary in octavo-sized notebooks that remained in relative obscurity. In the third octavo notebook he jotted down the following note: “Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached. The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is [...]
The status of films among the arts has been more or less settled for a few decades now. The verdict passed on the film industry as the seventh art, however, has little to do with the resolution of a century-old question as much as with a certain decline in the arts in general – both [...]
CAIRO (dpa) – The joy with which Pakistan’s first Academy Award was received this week quickly made way for debate on the subject of the film: acid attacks that leave hundreds badly disfigured every year. Saving Face captures the stories of two women who survived attacks in which acid was thrown in their faces, and [...]
“You can’t fight only because someone told you to fight, you know, you have to fight because you know we can’t lose” –Those are the words of an Israeli soldier deployed in the south of the country near the end of the Arab-Israeli war which is the central theme of “Promised Lands”; a documentary film [...]
In 1992 David Douglas directed a short documentary about the Kuwaiti oil fires in the course of the First Gulf War, under the title “Fires of Kuwait”. His documentary, rich in apocalyptic imagery – that since then has become popular and almost mainstream in TV documentaries – takes the viewer through a carefully documented tour [...]
“Bring your passport, we are going to the cinema” was the logline of “Cinema 500 km” (2006), a Saudi documentary film directed by Abdullah Al-Eyaf. To bring your passport go to the cinema seems like an unlike adventure everywhere in the world, that is, everywhere in the world except Saudi Arabia, the theaterless kingdom. Al-Eyaf’s [...]
Artaud wrote that films are essentially narrative experiences that offer emotion through captions that verbalize a story, but that should never attempt to translate written language into visual language, in which the action operates as “immediate intuition,” rejecting the notion of a purely visual cinema. To him, the “pure” or abstract cinema leads to a [...]
At the end of August 2011, a short documentary was screened at the Ramadan Majlis of Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the United Arab Emirates. That this is how the film began its career with the public is hardly surprising, for [...]
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