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Today i was attending a movie at golden stars cinema, when an incident happen that made me really wanna write about in my blog .. it’s been so long since i had this feeling but i was soOOooo excited about it …
I returned home, logged in to my word-press account to find the surprise … I have not blogged one post from exactly 2 years !!
I used to love sharing my thoughts and writing and drawing and enjoying sometime on my blog, the feedback always counts..I will do my best to keep it up and write more often 🙂
Anyways, for some reason in Egypt now, there is a huge improvement in the foreign movie distribution. Variety of movies arrive Egypt sooner than they used to, if not in the same time of release at the USA ..
Recently, two “R” rated movies were screened in Egypt, and they are considered two of the most important movies of 2013 .. The wolf of wall street & August: Osage County..
The two movies are great, their makers are the best in the industry and the 2 movies are nominated for Oscars in different departments …
First let me explain for those of you who doesn’t understand the film ratings:
MPAA or the Motion Picture Association of America introduced the system of rating in 1968 in order to provide parents with advance information about the content of movies to help them determine what movies are appropriate for their children at any age. The ratings are not intended to approve, disapprove or censor any movie.
The Ratings are … (as copied from Wikipedia)
| G | General Audiences | “Nothing that would offend parents for viewing by children.”On the box: “All ages admitted” |
| PG | Parental Guidance Suggested | “Parents urged to give ‘parental guidance.’ May contain some material parents might not like for their young children.”On the box: “Some material may not be suitable for children” |
| PG-13 | Parents Strongly Cautioned | “Parents are urged to be cautious. Some material may be inappropriate for pre-teenagers.”On the box: “Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13” |
| R | Restricted | “Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.”On the box: “Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian” |
| NC-17 | No One 17 and Under Admitted | “Clearly adult. Children are not admitted.”On the box: Same as the meaning |
Here in Egypt we don’t have such specification, if any movie contains inappropriate material of any quantity or quality, it’s just labeled ” For Adults Only”
and thus the people working at the cinemas may not have an understanding for what the letter written there on the poster represents.. and accordingly most foreign movies are all ages admitted given the fact that Egyptian cinemas don’t screen nudity and sex scenes due to social beliefs ..
What Happened in The Wolf of Wall Street, was a bit ordinary, some teenagers, say 15 years old attended the movie. it contains some inappropriate language and excessive use of the word FUCK .. but again they are teenagers and they already hear it and say it .. besides it’s a comedy crime movie starring Leo Di Caprio, so it may be an attraction to their age !
what i faced today in August: Osage Country was a bit strange and it made me really think that it’s about time to introduce a certain rating system in Egypt or at least abide to the rating system applied for decades.
August:Osage County is a Drama movie, about a family misery. The movie deals with many social problems facing the the american community and is very breathtaking specially with the stunning performance of both Myrel streep and Julia Roberts. Just around the beginning of the movie a group of 13 years old girls entered the hall, laughing all the way till they reached their chairs. 15 mins later they started laughing again without a specific reason. Every one around them started shouting at them and shushing them! this incident repeated right after the intermission and at a very important and moving part towards the end of the movie, the thing that forced one of the attendees to call for the security and get them kicked out of the hall, of course they didn’t get out easily and distracted us from seeing the rest of the movie ..
I don’t ask a bunch of 13 years old gals to understand anything the movie was saying, i don’t want them to understand a movie discussing divorce and separation, cheating and drug addiction.. I just don’t want them to see it in the first place .. Disney’s FROZEN or any other Arabic comedy would have been a great entertainment for them ..
I had 2 problems today !
who permitted them to attend this movie in the first place? and who is blamed for letting them so disrespectful to others ?
كارمن…محمد صبحي
ايه ده .. أنت اتجننت … أنت قتلتها … قتلت كريمه
لا أنا قتلت كارمن
كارمن هي كريمه… الاتنين واحد
أنا قتلتها علشان كان لازم تموت
الديكتاتور الي زيك هو الي لازم يموت
وأنا مين علشان أموت … دا أنا مفيش في أيدي كرباج ولا نبوت … ده أنا ديكتاتور صغير يادوب لسه في حضانة بتهجي أول حروفي في القهر والأهانه من كتر خوفي من خوف ابن الجبانه والكذب والخيانة قلت أعمل ديكتاتور .. ولو إن لسالي كتير علشان أكمل علامي وأخد في ايدي الشهادة… شهادة ديكتاتوراه … والعب لعب الحواة وافسد الحياه وادوس على الجباه واشعلل الحرائق و أظلم الخلائق واتيح في خلق الله
كارمن هي اللي حرة وأنا الديكتاتور, طب وانتو عايشين كماله ولا عايشين عواله ولا كمالة طابور
كارمن رمز الحياه وأنا اللي شرير وقاتل. والدنيا محترفة في صناعة الشخص الديكتاتور، من يوم بدء الخليقة مش قادرة تحمي حق ولا قادرة ضد ظلم ولا قادرة عالحقيقة…ولا تمنع ديكتاتور من كل صنف ولون من قهره للعباد
تعالوا نشوف ونقرا في كتاب الإنسانية… أنواع مالهاش نهاية من الديكتاتورية
في ديكتاتور سياسي وديكتاتور حماسي
في ديكتاتور اراري وديكتاتور حواري
في ديكتاتور فظيع وديكتاتور وديع وديكتاتور رقيع
في ديكتاتور ذكي وديكتاتور غبي وديكتاتور عبيط
في ديكتاتور حويط وديكتاتور أليط
في ديكتاتور مهذب وديكتاتور ملزق
في ديكتاتور شقي وديكتاتور عفي وديكتاتور عجوز
في ديكتاتور شجاع وديكتاتور جبان
وديكتاتور زمان غير ديكتاتور الزمن ده .. ديكتاتور زمان كان زي جنكيزخان وهولاكو وريتشارد وموسلييني وهتلر. الديكتاتور معشش في وجدان التاريخ وقلب الانسانية، وكل واحد فينا جوه ديكتاتور.. بصوا على أي حد وحققوا، هتلاوه موجود اهوه تحت جلده بقايا الديكتاتور
أنا عشقت كارمن، كارمن لحن الحياه والحرية الطليقة والأمنية البريئة… بتهرب من سناني للناب الأولاني لمخالب ديناصور …سايبين الكون بحاله بظلمه وبظلامه وجايين علي أنا وتقولوا ديكتاتور وظلمت الانسانية وكارمن النبيلة ضحيتي الجميلة قتلها ديكتاتور
ايوة قتلتها … أيوة قتلت كارمن وكريمه هي كارمن مفيش أي فرق … كارمن قلتلي لا وكريمه كمان قلتها وأنا نويت ليليتها اقتل البنت دي قتل مالوهش ديه يعني اقتل الحرية. طب وانتو عملتوا ايه … ساكتين من بدري ليه؟.. مبتقولتوش لا ليه؟ … علشان مابتقولوش طلعلنا قراقوش ومليون عافراكوش ده غير الي منعرفوش من كل صنف ولون .. بالذمة أنا أبقى مين، أبقى مين في وسط دول … ده أنا ديكتاتور لسة بليه عند معلم كبير بيومورني أنفذ وانتوا اهوه ساكتين … ده أنا بتلاكك بيكم واتعكزعليكم وعشمان لسه فيكم إنك تقول لا … نفسي أسمعكوا مرة بتقولوا لا للديكتاتور إياه الكبير
قولوا لا لللامريكان والصهاينة والعنف والاحتلال
قولوا لا لكوبانهاجن وبلاش ذل وهوان
قولوا لا وبلاش نفاق … قولوا لا للحاصل في الخليج وفي العراق
قولوا لا للمذابح في جنوب لبنان
قولوا لا وأوقاف مع كل ثائر في القدس والجولان
قاطعوا في يوم البضائع والوجبات السريعة وإفساد الطبيعة
أصرخ… أصرخ بعزم صوتك وأنا هاقول معاك
قولوا لا للحروب
قولوا لا للمجاعة
قولوا لا للتآمر
قولوا لا للخيانة
قولوا لا للخنوع
قولوا لا للخداع
قولوا لا للباع و لسة حايبيع … قولوا لا والسلام
Bedazzled and طير انت
Let’s Imagine;
What will happen if the devil really meets you and grants you 7 wishes in the return of your soul …
What will happen if a Kind witch – who always fails at school- grants you 7 wishes, just to sign his school certificate for him to be able to graduate…
What if in both cases you are just a lonely, pathetic desperate loser and your only hope is to fall in love with a beautiful girl…
That’s Bedazzled and طير انت…
Once I heard Ahmed Mekky in a TV interview saying that, it won’t be necessary to quote a movie unless you have an idea that adds up to it. Mekki, together with Ahmed el Guindy and Omr Taher quoted the American “Bedazzled 2000” in their hit comedy “Teer Enta” and i have to admit they added up much to the movie. I loved both movies; Bedazzled with it’s spiritual perspective and Teer enta with the social perspective. and i laughed much more in the Egyptian treatment.
Both Elliot Richards and Doctor Bahig lacked self-confidence and never had the courage to admit to their dream girls how much they admire them, they both thought that magic would change the reality, they both failed to believe that it’s all about them from the inside. Dr. Bahig after the unsuccessful 7 wishes – or I can call them the 7 sketches criticising the entire Egyptian society- discovered the reality of the relation between man and woman, found what’s best in himself and was able to marry his Dream Girl. Elliot Richards after the unsuccessful 7 wishes discovered that no one can buy his soul – because simply it belongs to GOD – knew the secret behind Heaven and Hell, and met his soul mate someday..
Watch the 2 movies and u have 14 wishes to learn from.
Special Mention: Donia Samir Ghanem Stunning performance in Teer enta.
आख़री रास्ता … The Last Option
One of the Indian Cinema best movies of all times.. A 1986 production that made me stare into my laptop screen throughout it’s 164 mins, amazed with the marvelous performance of Amitabh Bachchan in a Drama movie plotting the war between beliefs and duty …sympathizing the Father willing to help him take his revenge and proud of the son who is trying to do his work faithfully.
David (Amitabh Bachchan) spent 24 years in prison, for no reason except corruption. A Parliament member, a police inspector and a Doctor conspired on him after the first rapped David’s wife leading her to commit suicide ,burnt the only evidence for this – a letter she wrote before hanging herself- and witnessed that he tried to kill the parliament member. He is now out of prison, and seeking revenge because law never gave him his right. Insp. Vijay Sandaliya (Amitabh Bachchan) is David’s only son and he doesn’t know the truth, he as been raised as the son of Mahesh Sandaliya – David’s closest friend – and in love with his boss’s daughter Vinita Bhatnagar (Sri Devi), happens to be the police officer responsible for David’s case.The movie ends with the father taking the mother’s revenge and the son keeping his duty as his first concern even after he knew the truth, but proud with what his father did.
Amitabh Bachchan credited as “your favorite Star” on the movie opening titles and one of Bollywood’s most recognizable faces in the last two decades, had a hard mission of performing both the father & the son that turned into a stunning performance. I loved him being the old man who loves his wife and willing to take her revenge and believed him being the young enthusiastic police officer trying to apply justice.
I couldn’t hold my tears in two parts, when the young Amitab knew the truth and in the final scene. Unlike any other Indian movie i saw, it wasn’t easy to predict the end …
The war between beliefs and duty has been explained when the father stood against the son and Drew no. 9 on his hand then he showed it to him to appear as no. 6 … both the 6 and the 9 are right depending on from where do you look.
The idea is easy to be addressed in a movie but in real life -in my opinion- one, in some cases, gets emotional or do what he really beliefs in, no matter how his work duty says. The reaction of the son – deceiving the man who raised him to know the truth, saving the Parliament member life and chasing his father till the end – can never be achieved, although as i said in the beginning i was proud of him doing it, may be because i am sure it’s 100% correct if i am looking from his point of view. However, when i put myself in his place, even if i could chase my father or deceive the man, at least i won’t save the life of the man who lead to my mother’s death.
Nevertheless, the movie is a a MUST see if you are interested in the Indian Cinema.
طير إنت
ياه إلي شفته الكام يوم دول خلاني تعلمت كتير أوي
أنا اكتشفت إنك ممكن متبقاش راجل شكلك حلو بس بموقفاك و عمايلك تخلي الست تشوفك أجمل راجل ف الدنيا
و ممكن ماتكونش غني بس لو لو مابخلتيش عليها و كنت كريم معها حاتقدرك و حاتحترمك و ساعتها لو جبتلها وردة حيبقى كأنك جبتلها الدنيا كلها
الراجل الحقيقي هو إلي يعرف يقود العلاقة مش بالعافية ولا بالزعيق إنما بالحكمة و الحنية
الراجل الحقيقي ولا حاجة من غير الست … الحكاية زي طبق السلطة مينفعش يبقى كلها أوطه و مينفعش يبقى كلها خيار
A Quote from “Cinema Paradiso”
” 
Once upon a time, a king gave a feast. And there came the most beautiful princesses of the realm. Now, a soldier, who was standing guard, saw the king’s daughter go by. She was the most beautiful one, and he immediately fell in love with her. But what could a poor soldier do when it came to the daughter of the king?
Well, finally, one day, he managed to meet her, and he told her that he could no longer live without her. The princess was so impressed by his strong feelings that she said to the soldier: “If you can wait 100 days and 100 nights under my balcony, then at the end of it, I shall be yours.” Damn! The soldier immediately went there and waited one day. And two days. And ten. And then twenty. And every evening, the princess looked out of her window, but he never moved. During rain, during wind, during snow, he was always there. The bird shat on his head, and the bees stung him, but he didn’t budge. After ninety nights, he had become all dried up, all white, and the tears streamed from his eyes. He couldn’t hold them back. He no longer had the strength to sleep. All that time, the princess watched him. And on the 99th night, the soldier stood up, took his chair, and went away.”
Nuovo cinema Paradiso is a 1988 Italian film written and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. It was internationally released as Cinema Paradiso in France, Spain, the UK and the U.S.
It was originally released in Italy at 155 minutes but poor box office performance in its native country led to it being shortened to 123 minutes for international release. It was an instant success. This international version won the Special Jury Prize at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival and the 1989 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. In 2002, the director’s cut 173-minute version was released (known in the U.S. as Cinema Paradiso: The New Version).
Cast: Jacques Perrin… Toto (Adult)
Philippe Noiret… Alfredo
Leopoldo Trieste…..Father Adelfio
Marco Leonardi….Toto (Teenager)
Agnese Nano….Elena Mendola
Salvatore Cascio…..Toto (Child)
Written and Directed by: Giuseppe Tornatore
Shallow Hall (2001) vs. 7abibi na2eman (2009)
I never had the chance to see “Shallow Hall” before yesterday and i decided to do so, to see the difference between it and it’s Egyptian version “7abibi na2eman”… and the exact difference is the word SHALLOW … Shallow Hal 2001 is not the best movie u can see… it’s not a hit of course but u can never consider it a bad movie ! More over, i cannot call any of them a real comedy that makes you laugh out loud. However, i am here comparing how the plot was treated in both versions.
the plot of the movies, is a superficial man, who sets high PHYSICAL standards in the woman he wants, suddenly fall in love with a 300 pound girl just for her inner beauty.
In the English version, Hal (jack black) meets some self -help guru who hypnotizes him to stop being shallow and look deeper when he sees a woman to see the real beauty inside her … Hal meets Rosemary (Gwyneth Paltrow) an obese who is really kind and nice, and is volunteering in many charity work , the idea is he never saw her fat, he saw her slim and fit and thus he got attracted to her and started to know about her inner beauty.. His friend Mauricio (Jason Alexander) didn’t understand what happened to his pal and thus went to the self -help guru to understand what happened, and he gave the guru he impression that he is losing his friend and that Hal is losing his job and life and so he got the words that return Hal to his shallowness.
At this point, we discover that Hal saw the really ugly people (men and women) as pretty, only if they were good from the inside, but saw the the beautiful people as really ugly because they are bad from the inside … u will be touched at that point of the movie, specially when he meets the little girl at the hospital. and of course the movie ends with Hal and rose getting married …
In the Egyptian version, Ramez (7’aled abou el naga) accidentally drinks a spell that was supposed to be put for another guy in order to fall in love with Nesma (Mai 3ezz el din). The spell was to make the guy see only Nesma’s inner beauty.. he fall in love and they were about to get engaged when the spell effect ended, and he discovered the truth, he evaluates the whole relation and discovers how beautiful Nesma is despite her weight and they marry each others .
From my opinion, the Egyptian version of the movie is superficial and related the whole inner beauty thing to only the women you are attracted to , however the English movie gave us the reality that we need to look at everyone around us deeply to see how beautiful it is from the inside. there are people around us u start mocking, making fun of or just avoiding to deal with, just because you think they are different; Obese, Gays, Lesbians, Elderly, those having birth or genes defects.
I enjoyed watching the English version, and i can’t deny that i smiled while watching the Egyptian one on a dark night trying to find something to entertain me. but the question is why not be entertained and moved at the same time … this is what the Egyptian movies usually misses, specially when quoting an American movie !
زي ماهي حبها..
طب و فنان كبير زي حضرتك سافر والف الدنيا و يمكن شاف مناطق أجمل من دي مليون مرة … اسمحلي يعني إيه يخليه ييجي مكان زي ده أكتر من خمس ست مرة في السنة؟
أنت منين ؟…. من حلوان
بتحبها ؟…… يعني عادي
بتحب والدتك ؟….. الله يرحمها .. طبعا بحبها
بتحبها ليه ؟…. ..بحبها علشان أمي لازم أحبها
يعني مش علشان أجمل ست في الدنيا .. ولا علشان أحسن واحدة في كل حاجة
أنت لما بتحب مكان و تشتاق له و تروح له يمكن ماهوش أحسن مكان ولا أجمل مكان في العالم … و الناس إلي بنحبهم و بيحبوني مابنقعدش ندور بنحبهم ليه و بنكره فيهم إيه … بنحبهم زي ماهما لأن إلي بيننا مشاعر حقيقية … مفيش أي مصلحة ولا حساب للبزنس لا هناخد منهم إيه ولا هانديهم إيه … لو بصيت للوشوش إلي حواليك حتفهم أنا عايز أقول إيه
و أنت لما ترجع حلوان تاني و تروح الحواري إلي كنت بتلعب فيها و تفتكر أيام المدرسة و المذاكرة و سهر الليالي …تعب الأمهات و الإبهات هتحس إن الحاجات دي كلها تستاهل إنك تحب ناسك ..
و أنا لما بسافر بره و ألف الدنيا و بقابل ناس مقدرش أبدا أنسى العيون السمر دول ولا القلوب الطيبة إلي ماتعرفش غير الحب .. عرفت أنا باجي هنا ليه ؟
مفترق الطرق
1001 MOVIES YOU MUST SEE BEFORE YOU DIE
http://www.1001beforeyoudie.com/
- Le Voyage dans la lune (1902)
- The Great Train Robbery (1903)
- The Birth of a Nation (1915)
- Les Vampires (1915)
- Intolerance (1916)
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)
- Broken Blossoms (1919)
- Way Down East (1920)
- Within Our Gates (1920)
- The Phantom Carriage (1921)
- Orphans of the Storm (1921)
- La Souriante Madame Beudet (1922)
- Dr. Mabuse, Der Spieler (1922) Parts 1 and 2
- Nanook of the North (1922)
- Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
- Häxan (1923)
- Foolish Wives (1922)
- Our Hospitality (1923)
- The Wheel (1923)
- The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
- Strike (1924)
- Greed (1924)
- Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
- Der Letzte Mann (1924)
- Seven Chances (1925)
- The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
- The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
- The Gold Rush (1925)
- The Big Parade (1925)
- Metropolis (1927)
- Sunrise (1927)
- The General (1927)
- The Unknown (1927)
- October (1927)
- The Jazz Singer (1927)
- Napoléon (1927)
- The Kid Brother (1927)
- The Crowd (1928)
- The Docks of New York (1928)
- Un Chien Andalou (1928)
- La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (1928)
- Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
- Storm over Asia (1928)
- Blackmail (1929)
- The Man with the Movie Camera (1929)
- Pandora’s Box (1929)
- The Blue Angel (1930)
- L’Âge D’Or (1930)
- Earth (1930)
- Little Caesar (1930)
- All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
- À Nous la Liberté (1931)
- Le Million (1931)
- Tabu (1931)
- Dracula (1931)
- Frankenstein (1931)
- City Lights (1931)
- The Public Enemy (1931)
- M (1931)
- La Chienne (1931)
- Vampyr (1932)
- Love Me Tonight (1932)
- Boudu Sauvé des Eaux (1932)
- I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
- Trouble in Paradise (1932)
- Scarface (1932)
- Shanghai Express (1932)
- Freaks (1932)
- Me and My Gal (1932)
- Zéro de Conduite (1933)
- 42nd Street (1933)
- Footlight Parade (1933)
- Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
- She Done Him Wrong (1933)
- Duck Soup (1933)
- Queen Christina (1933)
- Las Hurdes (1933)
- King Kong (1933)
- The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
- Sons of the Desert (1933)
- It’s a Gift (1934)
- Triumph of the Will (1934)
- L’Atalante (1934)
- The Black Cat (1934)
- Judge Priest (1934)
- It Happened One Night (1934)
- The Thin Man (1934)
- Captain Blood (1935)
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
- A Night at the Opera (1935)
- The 39 Steps (1935)
- Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
- Top Hat (1935)
- Une Partie de Campagne (1936)
- Modern Times (1936)
- Swing Time (1936)
- My Man Godfrey (1936)
- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
- Camille (1936)
- Sabotage (1936)
- Dodsworth (1936)
- Things to Come (1936)
- The Story of a Cheat (1936)
- Captains Courageous (1937)
- Midnight Song (1937)
- La Grande Illusion (1937)
- Stella Dallas (1937)
- The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
- Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (1937)
- The Awful Truth (1937)
- Pépé Le Moko (1937)
- Jezebel (1938)
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
- Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
- Olympia (1938)
- The Baker’s Wife (1938)
- Bringing Up Baby (1938)
- Stagecoach (1939)
- The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (1939)
- Babes in Arms (1939)
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
- The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- Destry Rides Again (1939)
- Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
- Gone With the Wind (1939)
- Le Jour Se Lève (1939)
- Gunga Din (1939)
- Ninotchka (1939)
- La Règle du jeu (1939)
- Wuthering Heights (1939)
- His Girl Friday (1940)
- Rebecca (1940)
- Fantasia (1940)
- The Philadelphia Story (1940)
- The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
- Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
- Pinocchio (1940)
- The Mortal Storm (1940)
- The Bank Dick (1940)
- Citizen Kane (1941)
- The Lady Eve (1941)
- The Wolf Man (1941)
- The Maltese Falcon (1941)
- Sergeant York (1941)
- Dumbo (1941)
- High Sierra (1941)
- Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
- How Green Was My Valley (1941)
- The Palm Beach Story (1942)
- Now, Voyager (1942)
- Casablanca (1942)
- To Be or Not to Be (1942)
- Cat People (1942)
- The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
- Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
- Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
- Fires Were Started (1943)
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- Memento (2000)
- Kandahar (2001)
- Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain (2001)
- Spirited Away (2001)
- No Man’s Land (2001)
- Moulin Rouge (2001)
- The Lord Of The Rings I-III (2001-2003)
- The Pianist (2002)
- Irreversible (2002)
- Uzak (2002)
- City Of God (2002)
- Talk To Her (2002)
- The Best of Youth (2003)
- Oldboy (2003)
- Kill Bill I (2003)
- Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
- Head-On (2004)
- Der Untergang (2004)
- Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
- Sideways (2004)
- Crash (2005)
- Paradise Now (2005)
- Brokeback Mountain (2005)
- Tsotsi (2005)
- Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
- The Lives of Others (2006)
- Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
- Borat (2006)
- Once (2006)
- The Hot (2006)
- The Departed (2006)
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
- La Vie En Rose (2007)
- No Country For Old Men (2007)
- There Will Be Blood (2007)
- Atonement (2007)
- Surfwise (2009)
- The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
- Wall-E (2008)
- The Good The Bad & The Weird (2008)
- The Dark Knight (2008)
- The Wrestler (2008)
- The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (2008)
- Gomorra (2008)
- The Class (2008)
- Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Coverage of the 81st Annual Academy Awards… Oscars’09
The complete List of nominees, winners are marked in RED
BEST PICTURE
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
BEST DIRECTOR
Gus Van Sant
Milk
Stephen Daldry
The Reader
David Fincher
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard
Frost/Nixon
Danny Boyle
Slumdog Millionaire
BEST ACTOR
Richard Jenkins
The Visitor
Frank Langella
Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn
Milk
Mickey Rourke
The Wrestler
Brad Pitt
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
BEST ACTRESS
Anne Hathaway
Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie
Changeling
Melissa Leo
Frozen River
Meryl Streep
Doubt
Kate Winslet
The Reader
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Josh Brolin
Milk
Robert Downey Jr.
Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Doubt
Heath Ledger
The Dark Knight
Michael Shannon
Revolutionary Road
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams
Doubt
Penélope Cruz
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis
Doubt
Taraji P. Henson
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei
The Wrestler
ORIGINAL SCREEPLAY
Frozen River
Written by Courtney Hunt
Happy-Go-Lucky
Written by Mike Leigh
In Bruges
Written by Martin McDonagh
Milk
Written by Dustin Lance Black
WALL-E
Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Screenplay by Eric Roth
Doubt
Written by John Patrick Shanley
Frost/Nixon
Screenplay by Peter Morgan
The Reader
Screenplay by David Hare
Slumdog Millionaire
Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
WALL-E
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany)
The Class (France)
Departures (Japan)
Revanche (Austria)
Waltz with Bashir (Israel)
ART DIRECTION
Changeling
The Dark Knight
The Duchess
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Revolutionary Road
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Changeling
Slumdog Millionaire
The Reader
The Dark Knight
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
COSTUME DESIGN
Australia
The Duchess
Milk
Revolutionary Road
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Man on Wire
The Garden
Trouble the Water
The Betrayal
Encounters at the End of the World
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
The Conscience of Nhem En
The Final Inch
Smile Pinki
The Witness – From the Balcony of Room 306
FILM EDITING
The Dark Knight
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
MAKEUP
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
The Dark Knight
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
VISUAL EFFECTS
The Dark Knight
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Iron Man
ORIGINAL SCORE
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Alexandre Desplat
Defiance
James Newton Howard
Milk
Danny Elfman
Slumdog Millionaire
A.R. Rahman
WALL-E
Thomas Newman
ORIGINAL SONG
“Down to Earth” (WALL-E)
Music by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman; Lyrics by Peter Gabriel
“Jai Ho” (Slumdog Millionaire)
“O Saya” (Slumdog Millionaire)
Music and Lyrics by A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam
ANIMATED SHORT
Lavatory – Lovestory
Oktapodi
La Maison en Petits Cubes
Presto
This Way Up
LIVE-ACTION SHORT
Auf der Strecke (On the Line)
Manon on the Asphalt
New Boy
The Pig
Spielzeugland (Toyland)
SOUND EDITING
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
Wanted
SOUND MIXING
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
Wanted
Christmas songs…When Christmas Comes to Town…
La, la, la, la..... I'm wishing on a star And trying to believe That even though it's far He'll find me Christmas Eve I guess that Santa's busy Cause he's never come around I think of him When Christmas Comes to Town The best time of the year When everyone comes home With all this Christmas cheer It's hard to be alone Putting up the Christmas tree With friends who come around It's so much fun When Christmas Comes to Town Presents for the children Wrapped in red and green All the things I've heard about But never really seen No one will be sleeping on The night of Christmas Eve Hoping Santa's on his way [Repeat previous two paragraphs] When Santa's sleigh bells ring I listen all around The herald angels sing I never hear a sound When all the dreams of children Once lost will all be found That's all I want When Christmas Comes to Town That's all I want When Christmas Comes to Town
Sorry for disturbance…آسف علي الإزعاج
Ahmed Helmy and Menna shalaby in contribution with Mahmoud Hemeda and Dalal abdel Aziz, succeeded to perform one of the few physiological movies in Egypt. Ahmed helmy after the death of his father (mahmoud hemeda) lost his self confidence and started to suffer from paranoid schizophrenia; imaging that all people are dealing with him in a bad way, visualizing his father, and living in a love story with (Menna Shalaby) only in his mind. His mother (Dalal Abdel Aziz) tried to force him to visit a doctor, but he never did, until she confronted him with the truth. he revised all the actions that happened during the last period and referred to his camera to find himself all alone in the photos he supposedly took with his girl friend, he was convinced and went to a psychiatrist.
Ayman Bahgat Amar; in his first screen play, proved that he is different, and suceeded to add suspense to the story that we – the audience – never doubted that what’s happeneing in the first hour of the movie is only in the mind of a paranoid schizophrenic patient. Ahmed helmy proved that he is not only a great comedian but also a good actor. Menna shalaby was charming. Mahmoud hemeda and Dalal abd el aziz .. added to the film a lot. The D.O.P succeeded in building a language in the lighting and the camera movement that added to the movie a lot specially in the scene when the mother confronted the patient.
Nevertheless the movie had some weak points, mainly in describing the patient’s relation with his friends and Co-workers, and the unexplained relation with his boss. another weak point from my point of view is that the director Khaled Marie is affected with the Oscar winning award “A Beautiful mind” starring Russell Crew – inspired by the life of John Forbes Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics, who suffered paranoid schizophrenia –
Remains to say that “Sorry For Disturbance” is one of the best egyptian movies in 2008
High school musical (2006) … High School Musical 2: Extended Edition (2007) …
High school musical (2006) … High School Musical 2: Extended Edition (2007) … High School musical 3: Senior Year (2008)
3 great Musicals … i haven’t yet had the chance to see the third of them but the first two are more than fabulous… only saw them on MBC MAX last few days …
Stars of the trilogy:
Troy Bolton (Zac Efron) – Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens) – Sharpay Evans (Ashley Tisdale) – Ryan Evans (Lucas Grabeel) – Chad Danforth (Corbin Bleu) – Taylor McKessie (Monique Coleman) – Kelsi Nielsen (Olesya Rulin)
Director: Kenny Ortega
Writer: Peter Barsocchini
High school musical (2006)
Troy & Gabriella met in a new year’s eve party and we are forced to sing together, exchanged numbers but never thought they will meet again. nevertheless
they both discovered that they are in the same High school. Troy is a basketball playmaker and the captain of this team “wildcats”. Gabriella is a Genius math geek. They fall in love and decide together to join an audition for the musical performance in the school. and after they audition and get a call back along with Sharpay and Ryan Evans. Roy’s friend Chad becomes upset because he is afraid that Troy will become distracted from the basketball championship. Gabriella’s friend Taylor wants her on the science team and is willing to do anything to get her on the team.Troy had to choose between what he really wants to do (the undiscovered part of him) and what he has been doing since ever. Gabriella was sure of the step she is doing, until the evil plan Chad and Taylor put succeeded in breaking her heart. Seeing them distracted and not enjoying their lives anymore, Chad and Taylor confessed, and the whole teams are standing together in order to win the basketball championship, the science competition and the audition.The movie calls for searching inside ourselves to find what’s undiscovered and not to be afraid of whatever the reaction of the surrounding society; if they love, they will encourage you to do it..
High School Musical 2: Extended Edition (2007)
The “wild cats” gang are having a summer job in the country club owned by Sharpay and Ryan Evans. Gabriella wanted an unforgettable summer and the whole team decided to have fun all together despite the regulations of the working place. Moreover, they were going to join the talent show organized at the country club in a duet for Gabriella and Troy. When Sharpay knew that, she started to drag troy’s attention and trigger his dreams through her father’s power. Troy went after his dreams and changed totally in the way he deals with his friends and missed his dates with gabriella. Sharpay destroyed the gang’s summer and that’s why gabriella left the country club, leaving Troy to the truth that him running after his dreams should not make him lose the people he loves.
I am looking forward to watch High School musical 3: Senior Year
Bruce Almighty
Bruce Almighty gives us the chance to think… is being GOD an easy Job??
Bruce Almighty gives us another dimension in dealing with GOD.. gives us a small imagination to what could happen if GOD wasn’t there.. gives us a real reflection to the human soul and how it acts and thinks in times of weakness…
Bruce is not Jim Carrey.. he might be you.. he might be me …
GOD is not Morgan Freeman.. but HE needs you to believe in HIM, give HIM the chance to assist you, pray – not for people to see you praying, and not to tell HIM “see i am praying and you don’t give me what i ask“-just praying because you need to tell HIM what’s inside you and be sure HE will do the best for you.
GOD loves me … HE is not there to torture HIS son .. HE is not there to overload him with what he can’t do… HE knows what you can do and what you can’t do since HE created you… and HE wants you to discover the miracle in yourself.. “You want to see a miracle, son? Be the miracle”
there are understandable reasons to why this movie has been officially forbidden in Egypt..but i hope those who saw the movie in and outside Egypt understood what’s behind it and not only considered it another comedy for Jim Carrey
Bruce Almighty
A guy who complains about God too often is given almighty powers to teach him how difficult it is to run the world.
Starring:Jim Carrey – Morgan Freeman – Jennifer Aniston
Writing Credits: Steve Koren – Mark O’keefe
Directed by: Tom Shadyac
Rated PG-13 for language, sexual content and some crude humor.
Runtime:101 min
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