A Citizen, A Detective & A Thief: Comic Relief in Egyptian Cinema
Up to this film I was prepared to believe Egyptian movies only dealt with serious matters in serious ways. Adrift …
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The Nightingale’s Prayer – An Egyptian Movie Classic
The Egyptian classic, titled either The Curlew’s Cry or The Nightingale’s Prayer, depending on the translator, will not be for …
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, the novel, made a nice little splash in my reading circles when it came …
Caramel – A Film from Lebanon
Caramel, Nadine Labaki’s 2007 film from Lebanon, is about as close a film from the Arab world to those Western …
A Prophet — A Film from France
Wheww! You want to see a very tough prison film, don’t slow up with Dead Man Walking, or The Green …
Pantaleon y Las Visitadoras – a Film from Peru based on a Vargas Llosa Novel
I’m not usually one for mild-mannered sex farces in which cleavage and booty seem to be the main draw but …
Adrift on The Nile – A Film from Egypt, Mahfouz
Adrift on the Nile is a 1971 film from Egypt, directed by Hussein Kamal, who has some 10 movies to his …
Women’s Prison — Iran
Quite unlike any women-in-prison movie you might have seen, or contemplated seeing, Manijeh Hekmat’s 2002 Women’s Prison, from Iran offers no …
Day Break – A Prison Movie from Iran
Day break refers to the time of day when the guards in a Tehran prison come to the cells of …
The Day I Became a Woman – A Film from Iran
What an unexpected, unusual and brain shaping movie. The Day I Became a Woman is Marzieh Makhmalbaf‘s first film in …
Princesas a Film From Madrid
It’s rare to find ordinary working folks as the subjects of serious, well-done movies and even rarer when those workers …
Of Love and Other Demons: A Film
Contemplating the marriage of movies to the imagery of Gabriel Garcia Marquez occurs to every reader of any one of …