Posts Tagged with ‘Movies:Africa:North’
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Khorma – The Foolish Crier, Tunisia
09 Feb 2016Stories of fools are likely as old as the telling of stories themselves, second only to those of powerful heroes…
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Women say: Hands Off! — Three Films of the Changing Conversation in Islam
26 Jan 2016The long fight for autonomy, independence and freedom against enemies canny and brutal, is one of the most popular subjects…
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Enough! — Algerian Film Maker looks at War
13 Jan 2016Djamila Sahraoui (b 1950) Algerian born director, now living in France was 41 when the thirteen year civil war erupted in…
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Halfaouine: Boy of The Terraces –Coming of Age in Tunis, 1990
12 Jan 2016Every once in a while the unexpected out does itself. In Halfouine, Ferid Boughedir’s small 1990 movie from Tunis not…
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The Wedding Song — In Tunis As the Nazis Come
12 May 2012The Wedding Song [2008] is a deeply felt film of young women’s friendship under the extreme stress of wartime as…
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Inch’ Allah Dimanche: Algerian Immigrants to France
16 Jun 2011Immigration is big in the news these days – mostly the opposition to it– around the world. It is absolutely…
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The Mother of the Bride – Screwball Comedy from Egypt, 1967
23 Mar 2011Comedies of family life have been a regular feature of movies and television in the US from the 1950s right…
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Afrita Hanem: The Genie Lady — Egypt, 1951
02 Mar 2011Egypt as Egyptian movie goers saw it in 1951 (1949?) in Afrita Hanem: The Genie Lady [also known as Little…
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There’s A Man in Our House — Egypt
28 Feb 2011We’re familiar enough with movies about daring resistance fighters in wars or to oppressive regimes –if they are French, Spanish,…
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Alexandria: Again and Forever –Youssef Chahine and Changing Egypt
19 Feb 2011Alexandria is one of the fabled cities of history, the ancient jewel of Egypt, a cross roads for Mediterranean trade since boats…
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Struggle on the Nile: Three Tough Guys and a Dame in Egypt
16 Feb 2011In Struggle on the Nile, a 1959 movie from the golden age of Egyptian cinema, you will encounter a young…
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A Citizen, A Detective & A Thief: Comic Relief in Egyptian Cinema
15 Feb 2011Up to this film I was prepared to believe Egyptian movies only dealt with serious matters in serious ways. Adrift…
