Film
Year Ender: Best overlooked cinema
Cinema/TV
December 31, 2010
Year Ender: Best overlooked cinema
“Boy” (New Zealand). Coming-of-age films are usually little more than a list of calculated clichés— the loss of innocence, the…
Scrubbed: Sex free Egyptian movies
Books
December 23, 2010
Scrubbed: Sex free Egyptian movies
In the mid 1940s, when prominent (though untalented) Egyptian actor Anwar Wagdy openly bragged to journalists about the famous actresses…
Festival Films, digital category: Egypt’s ‘The Door’
Cinema/TV
December 9, 2010
Festival Films, digital category: Egypt’s ‘The Door’
The Digital Cinema category in the Cairo International Film Festival is one not readily recognized by your average film-goer, and…
Festival Films: France’s ‘Copacabana’
Cinema/TV
December 7, 2010
Festival Films: France’s ‘Copacabana’
Renowned French actress Isabelle Huppert plays Babou in Marc Fitoussi’s latest feature comedy, “Copacabana,” the only French production entered in…
Festival Films, critic’s pick: Egypt’s ‘Lust’
Cinema/TV
December 6, 2010
Festival Films, critic’s pick: Egypt’s ‘Lust’
“Al-Shouq” (Lust) is the latest addition to a relatively new trend in Egyptian cinema: movies that realistically follow the lives…
Festival Films, critic’s pick: Egypt’s ‘Microphone’
Cinema/TV
December 6, 2010
Festival Films, critic’s pick: Egypt’s ‘Microphone’
In "Heliopolis," Ahmad Abdalla’s fiction debut, a seminal scene depicts a couple gazing at each other for a moment in…
Festival Films: Hungary’s “So Much For Justice!”
Cinema/TV
December 6, 2010
Festival Films: Hungary’s “So Much For Justice!”
It’s a shame that the Cairo International Film Festival doesn’t give out an award for Most Annoying Film—“So Much for…
Festival Films: Switzerland’s ‘Sauvage’
Cinema/TV
December 5, 2010
Festival Films: Switzerland’s ‘Sauvage’
International film festivals are somewhat about pride in your country, and no film in the festival thus far has featured…
Festival Films: Romania’s ‘Meekness’
Cinema/TV
December 5, 2010
Festival Films: Romania’s ‘Meekness’
Trouble, the crazed man of a Romanian village, walks by the house of one of the villagers. Obviously drunk, the…
The Yes Men Fix the World
Cinema/TV
November 26, 2010
The Yes Men Fix the World
20 years after the Bhopal gas tragedy-–the worst industrial accident in history—a Dow Chemical Company spokesman announced live on BBC…