The brilliant Palestinian-Danish documentarian Mahdi Fleifel (“A World Not Ours”) leaps successfully into fiction with a feature debut that borrows a narrative container from “Midnight Cowboy” and a tormented soul that is all Palestinian.
The film opens with a quote from the celebrated Palestinian scholar, Edward Said: “In a way, it’s a sort of fate of Palestinians not to end up where they started, but somewhere unexpected and far away.” These words have been cutting since the moment they were first spoken years ago, but released into the world now during the horrific genocide in Gaza, they have an extra, desperate bite, as another generation is forced to seek displacement as the only alternative to violent death. Premiering at Cannes in this climate, Fleifel’s portrait of two individual characters asks questions that cannot be confined to the screen. Where do you belong after you have been driven from your homeland?...
The film opens with a quote from the celebrated Palestinian scholar, Edward Said: “In a way, it’s a sort of fate of Palestinians not to end up where they started, but somewhere unexpected and far away.” These words have been cutting since the moment they were first spoken years ago, but released into the world now during the horrific genocide in Gaza, they have an extra, desperate bite, as another generation is forced to seek displacement as the only alternative to violent death. Premiering at Cannes in this climate, Fleifel’s portrait of two individual characters asks questions that cannot be confined to the screen. Where do you belong after you have been driven from your homeland?...
- 5/22/2024
- by Sophie Monks Kaufman
- Indiewire
Chinese Xinjiang, Uyghur minority, Islam, forced marriage: sensitive enough keywords to ring the bell of contentious debates or trigger internet chats censorship. But I stop you right here: Nikah is not a political movie. Nikah is a contemporary coming-of-age tale set in a repressive backdrop. This is where fiction can sometimes surpass documentary, as it is not bound by considerations of witness accounts or ruled by “cinéma vérité” dogma. The camera serves a narrative here, not an agenda.
Nikah is screening at CAAMFest
Dilber is a 27-year-old Uyghur woman. It is now high time for her to get married. These two sentences are obviously charged with meaning. But Dilber is also a modern young adult whose life revolves around her mobile phone and social media, a window to the world, like most of young Chinese women of her age. So, when her friend Gulnur, living in Paris, proposes a long-distance...
Nikah is screening at CAAMFest
Dilber is a 27-year-old Uyghur woman. It is now high time for her to get married. These two sentences are obviously charged with meaning. But Dilber is also a modern young adult whose life revolves around her mobile phone and social media, a window to the world, like most of young Chinese women of her age. So, when her friend Gulnur, living in Paris, proposes a long-distance...
- 5/19/2024
- by Jean Claude
- AsianMoviePulse
CBS sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show" was a staple for American TV audiences of the '70s, thanks in large part to clever writing and Newhart's much-loved performance as psychologist and comedic straight man Bob Hartley. The show ran for six seasons from 1972 to 1978, but it had a surprisingly long pop cultural afterlife. Characters from "The Bob Newhart Show" have popped up in everything from "Murphy Brown" to "St. Elsewhere" to "Alf," though their most famous reappearance came in the jokey "Newhart" finale in 1990. In it, Newhart wakes up in bed next to his wife from the previous series and discovers that this entire sitcom was all an elaborate dream. "The Bob Newhart Show," it turned out, was his real world.
When it wasn't being resurrected for increasingly meta crossovers, "The Bob Newhart Show" was a pretty straightforward sitcom about the life of a mental health clinician and the assortment...
When it wasn't being resurrected for increasingly meta crossovers, "The Bob Newhart Show" was a pretty straightforward sitcom about the life of a mental health clinician and the assortment...
- 4/23/2024
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
Exclusive: CAA has signed Kip Williams, the adapter and director of the buzzy West End production of the Sydney Theatre Company’s The Picture of Dorian Gray starring newly minted Olivier Award winner Sarah Snook.
Williams is the youngest-ever Artistic Director of the Stc. The company’s Dorian Gray, featuring Succession‘s Snook in all of the roles, opened last month in London’s West End to rave reviews.
At Stc, Williams directed Playing Beatie Bow, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Three Sisters, Cloud Nine, Chimerica, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, All My Sons, Suddenly Last Summer, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet, among others.
Williams has also adapted and directed productions for Melbourne Theatre Company, Sydney Chamber Opera, Malthouse Theatre, and Perth Festival. For this work, he received the Helpmann Award for Best Direction of a Play, the Green Room Award, and the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Director.
Williams is the youngest-ever Artistic Director of the Stc. The company’s Dorian Gray, featuring Succession‘s Snook in all of the roles, opened last month in London’s West End to rave reviews.
At Stc, Williams directed Playing Beatie Bow, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Three Sisters, Cloud Nine, Chimerica, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, All My Sons, Suddenly Last Summer, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet, among others.
Williams has also adapted and directed productions for Melbourne Theatre Company, Sydney Chamber Opera, Malthouse Theatre, and Perth Festival. For this work, he received the Helpmann Award for Best Direction of a Play, the Green Room Award, and the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Director.
- 4/15/2024
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The Portuguese doc fesitival has a reputation for showcasing formally bold films with attitude.
As it celebrates its 21st edition this year, Doclisboa is one of the most radical and innovative of the autumn documentary festivals. It opens today (October 19), taking place in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon until October 29.
Festival director Miguel Ribeiro prides himself on programming films with attitude and this year’s international competition includes shorts screening in the same section as features. Six are world premieres.
Whether they are dealing with politics, art or music, the titles screening in Lisbon tend to be opinionated and formally...
As it celebrates its 21st edition this year, Doclisboa is one of the most radical and innovative of the autumn documentary festivals. It opens today (October 19), taking place in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon until October 29.
Festival director Miguel Ribeiro prides himself on programming films with attitude and this year’s international competition includes shorts screening in the same section as features. Six are world premieres.
Whether they are dealing with politics, art or music, the titles screening in Lisbon tend to be opinionated and formally...
- 10/19/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Vanessa Kirby, an English actress, was born on April 18, 1988. She has received numerous awards, including a BAFTA TV Award, and has been nominated for an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.
Kirby was born in London to Roger Kirby, a urologist, and went on to study English literature at the University of Exeter. After completing her degree, she began her professional acting career on stage, starting with a production of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons in 2010. She received critical acclaim for her performances in plays such as A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Women Beware Women, Three Sisters, and A Streetcar Named Desire.
In 2012, Kirby made her film debut with a minor role in the crime drama The Rise. However, it was her portrayal of Princess Margaret in the Netflix drama series The Crown from 2016 to 2017 that brought her international recognition. She won the British Academy...
Kirby was born in London to Roger Kirby, a urologist, and went on to study English literature at the University of Exeter. After completing her degree, she began her professional acting career on stage, starting with a production of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons in 2010. She received critical acclaim for her performances in plays such as A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Women Beware Women, Three Sisters, and A Streetcar Named Desire.
In 2012, Kirby made her film debut with a minor role in the crime drama The Rise. However, it was her portrayal of Princess Margaret in the Netflix drama series The Crown from 2016 to 2017 that brought her international recognition. She won the British Academy...
- 10/15/2023
- by Movies Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
Though the onslaught of streaming giants is impacting Turkey’s TV landscape, it’s not as though Turkish shows weren’t doing gangbuster global biz way before Netflix and other platforms arrived on the scene.
“Turkish dramas were already reaching audiences all over the world on linear TV,” says Ekin Koyuncu, head of prominent broadcaster Kanal D’s international sales arm. And that is why streamers are now so keen on making Turkish originals.
What changes with having Turkish originals streaming on global platforms is that “the age targets are totally different,” she says. “With this [platform] product, we are gaining the awareness of a younger population, especially in the U.S. and Europe, where our linear penetration is actually low.”
So “both sides are benefitting from each other,” Koyuncu points out.
The new batch of Turkish dramas going out globally via both linear and streaming outlets includes:
Aziz
This 1930s-set...
“Turkish dramas were already reaching audiences all over the world on linear TV,” says Ekin Koyuncu, head of prominent broadcaster Kanal D’s international sales arm. And that is why streamers are now so keen on making Turkish originals.
What changes with having Turkish originals streaming on global platforms is that “the age targets are totally different,” she says. “With this [platform] product, we are gaining the awareness of a younger population, especially in the U.S. and Europe, where our linear penetration is actually low.”
So “both sides are benefitting from each other,” Koyuncu points out.
The new batch of Turkish dramas going out globally via both linear and streaming outlets includes:
Aziz
This 1930s-set...
- 4/2/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
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