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Lens on Syria: Thirty Years of Contemporary Cinema - PRESS |
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| Straight Series unveils daring views inside Syria By mark harris Publish Date: 6-Jul-2006 http://www.straight.com/content.cfm?id=18839 |
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| The
New Yorker http://www.cartoonbank.com/newyorker/slideshows/060515on_wright.html# |
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The
New York Times Pity Salem (BASSAM KOUSA) and Nada (SAMAR SAMI), the nervous Syrian sweethearts who meet in a dirty borrowed apartment for a secret rendezvous in NABIL MALEH's film "THE EXTRAS." Even in privacy, they feel the snooping eyes and ears of the world just outside the door. (more...) |
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| The
Nation http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060605/klawans? |
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The
Daily Star http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=24651 NEW YORK: How do you make films in a country run by a quasi-socialist dictatorship, where a state agency funds all existing production and imposes strict limitations on the expressions of its artists? If you're Syrian, then the answer is with a lot of skill, irony, depth of feeling, patience - and above all talent. (more...) |
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GCN As the tempest blows over Tribeca, a quiet storm is brewing at the scaffolding-corseted Walter Reade with a panorama of Syrian films, one of the national cinemas yet to enjoy its 15 minutes. (more...) |
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| Village
Voice Banned in the Middle East: What does it take to get censored in Syria, anyway? May 2nd, 2006 Written by Michael Atkinson Because Syria does not have an authentic film industry of its own, the native movies collected for this inspired Walter Reade retro are (a) mostly crude third-world hardscrabble, or (b) often sourced out of the politics and/or funding of neighboring nations, or (c) both. Of course, the shadow of the Baathist regime, in place for 36 years and counting, looms—-but not in a dependably ideological way. However secular, the government's Byzantine, and often simply whimsical, web of censorship committees, gantlets, principles, and feuds has no official code to follow, and suppression is applied by secret censors when and if they see fit, a process that keeps all culture production in a state of anxious exhaustion. (more...) |
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Comment http://www.filmlinc.com/fcm/mj06/syria.htm Neglected-ignored even-Syrian cinema merits special attention for its originality, quality, and boldness. That said, compared to the high volume of film production in Egypt, the film industry's output is minuscule: since 1928, when the first Syrian film was made, the country has produced only about 150 features. (more...) |
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| WBAI Discovering Syrian Cinema: The Half-Meter Incident wbai.org | Tuesday, 16 May 2006 Written by Prairie Miller WBAI Arts Magazine It has been said about the film industry in the US, that it's a business whose commercial product just happens to be movies. Which brings up a far more intriguing question, namely what is the nature of the motivations and self-expression of filmmakers in countries where creative profiteering is not sanctioned and the move industry is state sponsored. (more...) |
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Globe and Mail Syria's cash-strapped, censor-whipped film industry produces only a handful of features each year, but many cineastes consider the quality of these pictures to be disproportionately high.(more...) |
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