Laila's Birthday: Interview with Palestinian Director Rashid Masharawi

September 16, 2009 by

Rashid Masharawi is the writer/director of the Palestinian drama "Laila's Birthday," which was released by Kino International.

"The difference between this film and my previous films is in the level of clarity of the Palestinian national project which seemed more obvious in the past films as the quest for liberty. Now, after all these years, the occupation is still here. What we are dealing with now is more about elaborating a unified Palestinian national project."

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Informant, The: Interview with Star Matt Damon

September 9, 2009 by

Matt Damon plays Mark Whitacre in "The Informant," directed by Steven Soderbergh, which is being released September 18, 2009 by Warner Bros.

It's like peeling an onion. You start with a certain set of assumptions and then realize you can't assume anything as the situation becomes utterly ridiculous. It's a great story and a really incredible character–Matt Damon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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Capitalism: A Love Story–Interview with Michael Moore

September 9, 2009 by
 
Please read Oscar Alert about Mo'Nique in "Precious" and Viggo Mortensen in "The Road."
 
"In America, people tend to wait for the coast to be clear before openly discussing certain topics and saying certain things. Even if it’s right in front of our noses and people sense that something’s gone terribly wrong—they go with the flow. They adjust and accept mediocrity, get comfortable and settle in. Most feel that if they just keep their heads down and their noses to the grindstone, they’ll squeak by. But someone has to speak up," says Michael Moore, agent-provactor of the American cinema. 
 
Click on link to look at the new trailer for Michael Moore's new Hot Docu, "Capitalism: A Love Story."

 

 

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London River: Interview with Actress Brenda Blethyn

September 6, 2009 by
My character is not racist, but certainly ignorant. She’s conservative. Then again, in Sotigui’s culture, too, there are prejudices. There, I think, the women are still to some extent second class citizens – for example it’s frowned upon for a woman to smoke in front of a man in that culture. When my character lights that cigarette in front of him – and she doesn’t even smoke! – you can see that’s something he’s uncomfortable with. But I suppose you could say that it takes something of these proportions to make people think about these things. If it hadn’t been for those terrible events she’d still be at home, feeding her donkeys – she wouldn’t even have thought about other ways of life, hers was ok thank you–Brenda Blethyn
 

 

 

 

 

 

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London River: Interview with Director Rachid Bouchareb

September 5, 2009 by

All my films are concerned with the subject of meetings between different people, from different countries and different worlds. This theme of meetings is always at the heart of my films, because the characters are always on a journey. And this phenomenon goes beyond the characters on screen to the actors themselves. I find the concept of the meeting between Sotigui Kouyaté, an African actor, and Brenda Blethyn, a British actor, fascinating, beyond the fact of their friendship, it’s a human connection between two people of different nationalities, religions, universes. It allows one to go beyond the cinematic encounter and affords the film a level of truth about the meeting and the different cultures of these two individuals–Director Rachid Bouchareb

 

 

 

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