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 [...]
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 [...]
Los Angeles (dpa) – American Idol, meet your future. A future, that is, where the entertainment is gruesome and violent and the reality of competition is a matter of life and death. This is the world of The Hunger Games, the film adaptation of the first of three best-selling teen novels, which opens around the [...]
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 [...]
Berlin (dpa) – The curtain rises on the Berlin Film Festival Thursday with a lavish period drama telling the story of the French Revolution through the eyes of Maria Antoinette’s servants, launching the 10-day Berlinale. At the center of veteran French director Benoit Jacquot’s film, Les Adieux a la Reine (Farewell my Queen) is the [...]
“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 [...]
A new film, released last week in Turkey, is highlighting sexuality and homophobia in present-day Turkey. The film by Caner Alper and Mehmet Binay called ZENNE Dancer, aims to reveal the stark realities facing the LGBT community in the country. It has already seen positive reactions from Turks who want to see their country move [...]
London (dpa) – A movie portraying former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher is making waves in Britain, dividing opinions as sharply as the “Iron Lady” herself did – and still does. The Iron Lady, by British director Phyllida Lloyd, only had its London premiere on Wednesday, but it has been hotly debated for months on [...]
10. Blade Certainly not the most critically loved film, Blade somehow captured what we expected: a dark tale of vampires before vampires were popular. Wesley Snipes boosted back into stardom for a while with this film that takes on the idea of a half-vampire bent on a mission to destroy the underbelly of the vampire [...]
In 1999, Kathryn Bolkovac, a single mother from Nebraska and a seasoned cop, joined the U.N. peacekeeping force in Bosnia, a country still in tumult after its brutal civil war. Her job was to investigate the sex trafficking of young women from Eastern Europe. Once she began collecting evidence from the victims she discovered that [...]
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