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Archives: film
Iran’s Oscar-Winning Director Hopes Anti-Fascist Movement Grows
TeleSur | - - "We believe there is no best country, best gender, best religion or best color,” the directors of the five Oscar foreign films nominees wrote in a joint statement.…
Oscar Nominee Asghar Farhadi between US Muslim Ban and Ayatollahs’ Censorship
By Kevin Hagopian | (The Conversation) | - - Politics loom over this year’s Oscars, with many bracing for what the winners will – or won’t – say when they ascend the…
Meryl Streep calls out Trump: Having Bully-in-Chief Coarsens whole Culture
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Occasionally entertainment and politics intersect, often hitting a false note. You never want your screenplay to be, as they say in Hollywood, "on…
6 Reasons Feminist Carrie Fisher Was Ahead of Her Time
TeleSur | - - While all Star Wars (male) fans only remember Carrie Fisher in her sex-slave golden bikini, the late actress had a feminist conception of her role way ahead of…
The Reich Strikes Back? Neo-Nazis Call for a Boycott of New Star Wars Movie
By TeleSur | - - White-supremacists are upset because nearly all of the major characters on the new Star Wars film are people of color. Neo-Nazi groups on the Internet are calling…Goodbye to Abbas Kiarostami, a Filmmaking Legend Whose Vision ‘Transversed His Persian Roots’
By Mahsa Alimardani | ( Global Voices) | - - News trickled out of a Paris hospital on the evening of 4 July that Iranian cinematic auteur Abbas Kiarostami lost his battle…
Oscars: Chris Rock on lack of Diversity in Hollywood
Chris Rock | (ABC - Academy Awards) | Oscars 2016: Chris Rock's Best Lines The host had Hollywood's A-list laughing with jokes about the controversy over the lack of diversity at this…
Best Movie of 2016: Michael Moore skewers US Inequality in “Where to Invade Next”
By George Lakey | ( Waging Nonviolence ) | - - Many fields of endeavor have what they call “best practices,” and self-respecting workers look for those. I wouldn’t expect Michael Moore…
In ‘Spectre,’ James Bond becomes Edward Snowden
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The latest entry in the Daniel Craig reboot of the James Bond film franchise, Spectre , turns Bond into more muscular version of…
Andrew Garfield of Spiderman: Trump ‘has a lot,’ Unwelcoming of those with Little
Popsugar Entertainment | (Video Interview with Andrew Garfield) | - - "Andrew Garfield spent hours with families who'd lost their homes in the foreclosure crisis to prepare for his role as a…
Omar Sharif didn’t have to Play a Terrorist
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Omar Sharif is dead at 83. Born Michel Chalhoub in Alexandria to Lebanese Christian parents in 1932, he changed his name and converted…
New TV Show About Cairo’s Jewish Community draws Fans, Critics
Aj+ | (Video Report) | - - "“The Jewish Quarter” – a new series about Cairo's once-thriving Jewish community – is angering both Egyptians and the Israeli Embassy in Egypt." AJ+: "New…
How the Jurassic Park Franchise changed the real world of ancient DNA Research
By Elizabeth Jones | (The Conversation) | - - The park is almost open. Two decades on and Jurassic Park has morphed into Jurassic World, the one and only dinosaur theme park.…
Jon Stewart on Iran, Israel and Directing Rosewater: “It Turns out the Middle East is Somewhat of a Hotbed”
By Alexander Bisley | (Lumiere Reader) | - - N.B. Rosewater is now streaming at Amazon Instant Video and will be available on Netflix beginning June 10 It’s slightly surreal interviewing Jon…
‘I would have come forward sooner’ – Snowden on NSA leak regrets
RT | - Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has frequently said that he does not regret blowing the whistle on the agency’s mass surveillance programs. However, he has now stated…
In New Gilded Age, Social Protest dominates Academy Awards Ceremony
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) - If social and economic inequality were a mine, and if America were deep in this mine with a canary in tow, the canary would long…
Snowden Reacts as Documentary about his Leaks wins Oscar
By Rainey Reitman | (EFF) - CITIZENFOUR, Laura Poitras' riveting documentary about Edward Snowden's efforts to shed light on gross surveillance abuses by the United States government and its partners, just won…
War Porn: Hollywood and War from World War II to “American Sniper”
By Peter Van Buren | (Tomdispatch.com) - In the age of the all-volunteer military and an endless stream of war zone losses and ties, it can be hard to keep Homeland enthusiasm…