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Posts Tagged with ‘Movies:Middle East’

  • The Gatekeepers: An Israeli Documentary

    03 Apr 2013

    The 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 2012

    Trilogies 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 2012

    The 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 2012

    I 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 2012

    A 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 2012

    Three 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 2012

    I’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 2012

    If there is a film director better at making movies about children than Majid Majidi of Iran, I don’t know…

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  • Alhaam: A Film from Iraq — 2005

    03 Sep 2011

    Alhaam, a movie shot in Iraq in 2004 — during the full catastrophe of the US invasion and related Iraqi…

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  • Inch’ Allah Dimanche: Algerian Immigrants to France

    16 Jun 2011

    Immigration 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 2011

    Many 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 2011

    Comedies of family life have been a regular feature of movies and television in the US from the 1950s right…

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