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The Harder They Come Remastered Wishing to become a successful Reggae singer, a young Jamaican man finds himself tied to corrupt record producers and drug pushers.  Marking its 40th anniversary on September the fifth a digitally remastered edition of this groundbreaking movie will be in theaters for only that one night. Jamaica's first feature film, The Harder They Come, was released in 1972 . The film introduced to the world, not only Jamaica, but also Reggae music. It propelled Jimmy Cliff to international stardom. The film was made by Jamaica's great filmmaker Perry Henzell who passed away in 2006. Movie Specs: The Harder They Come 1972. 103 min. Color. Jamaica. English/Creole and Pidgins. Genre: Crime/Drama/Music. Director: Perry Henzell. **** Cinema City On Biutiful From the director of Babel, 21 Grams and Amores Perros  Any one who viewed this movie would be tempted to correlate its name with the masterpiece by Sam Mendes America...

The Motorcycle Diaries "The image of Che Guevara before he became a revolutionary symbol." Original article by: Elnour Hamad* Some may share my opinion that Hollywood has lost a lot of its old humane artistic outpour which marked the sixties, seventies and perhaps the eighties of last century. It has become rare for one to watch a movie based on a significantly deep literary work. The film industry has been inclined more and more towards films that generate greater income. Hence the abundance of violence and crime movies which popularize the use of new cinematic tricks launched by the graphic revolution in computer sciences, especially the so-called materialization or "virtual reality". The whole thing has been turned to leisure and entertainment, and what was prevalent before, such as the use of drama in education or enlightenment or in strengthening of human dispositions, has declined. However, there are producers and directors in Hollywood who still i...

".. that’s what cinema is all about – it produces monumental figures, icons, male or female, people who are emblematic of their time, who are in their time and who define their time.” French filmmaker  Jacques Audiard Tahar Rahim Was it a bit over for the producers of this movie to compare it to "The Godfather" and therefore hint at a fleeting resemblance between the Corsican gang leader Cezar and Don Corlioni and, by extrapolation,  between Tahar Rahim (as Malik) and Al Pacino (as Michael.)! Chances are!   The screenplay for "A Prophet" was inspired by a  visit Mr. Audiard made to a video club in a French prison. It was then written by Audiard (himself a screen writer)  and other prominent writers such as Abdel Raouf Dafri (winner of French Cezar Award.). It was based on the shocking realization of the conditions in the French prisons.Therefore it can be viewed as a cinematic critique of real life situations as much as it is an iconizatio...

Umberto Eco- "I was obliged to read it because everybody was asking me about it. My answer is that Dan Brown is one of the characters in my novel Foucault’s Pendulum , which is about people who start believing in occult stuff." Editor- But you yourself seem interested in the kabbalah, alchemy and other occult practices explored in the novel. Umberto Eco- "No. In Foucault’s Pendulum I wrote the grotesque representation of these kind of people. So Dan Brown is one of my creatures. " Umberto Eco Are you initiated? If not, do not watch this movie! It will appear dull to you whereas it is only dim! The perceived dullness is due to the fractional differences between the large number of codes, the Fibonacci numbers, and our average ability to assimilate information. It might occur to you that parts of this movie were shot in Paris, the City of Light! But all you can see is dark and Un Paris ly ! But dimness becomes conspiracies! To be initiated on th...

Reality While the heroic  Wilson Mandela  lies on his deathbed, his family and kinsfolk break a fight over his belongings! Cinema In Michael Cacoyannis's masterpiece  Zorba the Greek  1964, while Mme Hortense  (portrayed by legendary actress Lila Kedrova)  lies on her deathbed, the villagers start invading her house to steal her belongings!  Lila Kedrova The world is a ghetto! The Gulf International Film Festival Gulf Film Festival 2013 (opening video) from Beyond Dreams on Vimeo. Beautiful video directed by Abdulla Boushahri Abu Al.Ala with Iranian master filmmaker Kiarostami Famed Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us)  supervised the young Sudanese filmmaker Amjad Abu Al.Ala on  his short film (Studio) during the 2011 Kiarostami workshop. This year 2013 the workshop was mounted on the Hong Kong International Film Festival 2013...

Edward Morehouse was a student at HB studio in the early fifties. Coming from class one day, he was climbing down the narrow, dilapidated stairway when a rather messy-looking fellow with grease-stained clothes pushed by him. "Hey! Your fly is open," the fellow called. Morehouse looked and sure enough, it was. He had hurriedly changed out of his costume after presenting a scene and neglected to zip up. Morehouse turned to say, "Thank you"- and saw that the boy's jeans were riding dangerously low. "Hey! Your ass is out," he called. And Steve McQueen laughed. From then on, they called each other "Bare Ass" and "Smart Ass." Morehouse was Smart Ass because Steve had noticed something about him: Morehouse always carried with him a book or two. Over greasy corn beef and dime beer at Louie's, Steve would quiz Morehouse on what he was reading and why, what it meant. They were an odd pairing, the scholarly, genteel Morehouse and t...

Cinema Yahya Fadlalla * Y. Fadlalla Sakral Joe had two options. To share with as little as he had in coins in buying a can of Celsion. Actually, he did not have enough to pay a matching share. Shaitan Doe, his good friend, would appreciate his situation. The other option was to give up the idea of buying the can and try to wet the piece of cloth that lay in his pocket from the gas tank of the nearest car that was unheeded by some one, especially that gasoline had a stronger effect than Celcion. This way he would be able to buy a third class ticket and enjoy the cowboy film which was showing that night at Banet cinema house. Only a ticket could beat the huge guy nicknamed Amigo who was the ticket controller at the entry and also the cinema thug. Joe had a series of fights and had tried various tricks to infiltrate the cinema house but he had always had his tricks foiled by this giant of a beast who kept a constant eye him. Joe had always been under so much surveilla...