Posts Tagged with ‘Movies:Middle East’
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The Gatekeepers: An Israeli Documentary
03 Apr 2013The Gatekeepers, an Israeli documentary by Dror Moreh is a coup most film makers could only dream of: not only…
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Egg-Milk-Honey — A Turkish Film Trilogy
18 Jun 2012Trilogies are rare birds in the species we call movies. When they exist at all they seem to come from…
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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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Talking Turkey: Two Films
06 Feb 2012I admit it. I’ve been on a bender lately reading about Turkey and watching movies made there, or by Turks…
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A Separation: A Film From Iran
05 Feb 2012A Separation, from Iran, is the most intense, informative, though claustrophobic, domestic drama you are likely to see in years. …
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Three Monkeys – A Film from Turkey
23 Jan 2012Three Monkeys — the famous three monkeys of not seeing, speaking or hearing– is a sorrowful, long-take, film of domestic…
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Distant – a Film from Turkey
09 Jan 2012I’m going on a trip to Turkey in a couple of months with some dear companions, so we’re doing a…
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Children of Paradise – A Film from Iran
09 Jan 2012If there is a film director better at making movies about children than Majid Majidi of Iran, I don’t know…
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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 Kite — Over the Lebanese-Israeli Border — a Film
07 Apr 2011Many years ago I translated The Manuscript of a Crow, a short story by Spanish author Max Aub, the protagonist…
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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…
