Cairo Time, a romantic drama directed by Canadian filmmaker Ruba Nadda stars Patricia Clarkson and Alexander Siddiq. Clarkson plays Juliette, an American visiting Cairo, while her husband is sorting out a refugee camp crisis in Gaza. During her stay, she becomes acquainted with her husband’s newly retired colleague, Tareq, played by Alexander Siddig. The film’s [...]
BEIRUT: For fans of Sex and the City – a television series and movie centered on the lives of four single women living in New York City – the summer movie sequel Sex and The City 2 promised fashion, fun, friendships and more. Viewers who watched it when it premiered on 15 July in Lebanon [...]
When people hear the word “documentary” they instantly get this feeling of a monotone narrator boring them to bits. Well, I have to say that I absolutely love documentaries and in the last five years they have changed very much. The directors and/or producers have learned to challenge and dramatically grab the audience’s attention to [...]
ISTANBUL: When Turkish director Semih Kaplanoğlu’s film Honey won the Golden Bear award in the 2010 Berlin Film Festival this February, international film critics turned their attention to Turkish cinema. Honey is the final part of Kaplanoğlu’s trilogy, which narrates three stages of the life of a man in reverse chronological order. Alluding to religious [...]
A graphic film featuring model, Alice Dellal has been created to move millions of people to sign up to an online e-protest against the proposed lifting of the commercial whaling ban. The ban has been in place for the past 24 years, dramatically reducing the numbers of whales killed. However, on the 21st June in [...]
CAIRO: World Environment Day is coming up on the 5th of June and the Fate of our Earth Series is screening its last documentary before the big day. The Fate of our Earth Series is a collaboration between the Wadi Environmental Science Centre (WESC) and Prince Alwaleed American Studies Centre – AUC. It was started [...]
Tony Stark is in the midst of a media scramble as his revelation that he is Iron Man has taken on a world of its own, but a new enemy is lurking and soon he will have to face reality. Iron Man 2 takes off very soon after the first film ended, and Stark (Downey [...]
I took notice of the news that Israeli director Keren ben Rafael’s film “Almost Normal” was removed from a film series in Cairo organized by French Cultural Center. This in turn precipitated cancellation of the entire series. From what I understand, Ms. Rafael’s film was rejected because of her nationality, not because of the content [...]
