Posts Tagged with ‘Movies:Middle East’
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Theeb: A Bedouin Boy in the WWI Desert
19 Jul 2016Aimless movie wandering sometimes pays dividends. We happened into a streaming presentation of Theeb, by British-Jordanian director, Abu Nowar. Recipient of considerable…
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The Secrets — Desire and Emergence in Conservative Israel
10 Feb 2016Avi Nesher’s 2007 film, The Secrets, is full of them, though not only the secret forbidden love promised by the posters. Neither…
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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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The Toll Booth — Unsettled Desperation in Turkey
05 Feb 2016The Toll Booth (2014), more accurately, the” toll taker,” has a nice play on words in it, at least in…
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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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Taxi — A Forbidden Film from Iran
10 Nov 2015Jaffar Panahi’s Taxi, an entry at the recent Mill Valley Film Festival has made it into at least limited distribution in…
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1913: Seeds of Conflict in Palestine
10 Aug 20151913: Seeds of Conflict, a 2014 PBS distributed documentary by Ben Loeterman, is a fine, short introduction to the little…
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Arabs in WW I
19 Nov 2014This looks like this will be very interesting, from Al Jazeera: World War One was four years of bitter conflict from…
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Omar – Love and Betrayal in an Occupied Land
17 Mar 2014Let’s do a thought experiment about a movie. In it, an occupying army has a stranglehold on the local populace. …
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The Secret of the Grain — the Couscous of Love
01 Nov 2013Abdel Kechiche is getting a lot of press these weeks for his daring love story of two woman, daringly shown,…
