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Manager of Venice Festival -AP

Venice Star-Studded Film Festival

by Mohammed Rouda | Sep 1, 2016 | Entertainment, Lifestyle & Culture

Since the seventies, when director Terrence Malick was at the beginning of his cinema journey, he dreamed of a movie that required massive capabilities to be implemented; a movie that speaks of the universe since its first creation to the modern era of contemporary...

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American Actress and Producer, Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster: ‘Money Monster’ is more Like Hollywood than any of My Other Works

by Mohammed Rouda | May 14, 2016 | Interviews

Cannes- Many written and presented film scripts, which fail to find a producer, are marshaled and stacked into the film industry’s keeping drawers. Jodie Foster’s thriller “Money Monster” did not make it to big-screen production right away, first written by Alan Di...

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Quentin Tarantino shooting (Hateful Eight)

Tarantino Tackles Racism in All His Movies

by Mohammed Rouda | Mar 28, 2016 | Lifestyle & Culture

Palm Springs (California) – Hollywood’s infamous film director Quentin Tarantino told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that anti-racism is the common factor shared by his movies. Among Tarantino’s masterpieces were “Reservoir Dogs”, “Kill Bill” (the first and the...

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Director of the Saudi Film Barakah Yoqabil Barakah, Mahmoud Sabbagh

Saudi Film “Barakah Yoqabil Barakah” Wins at Berlin Film Festival 2016

by Mohammed Rouda | Feb 21, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

Berlin-Saudi Arabian romantic comedy “Barakah Yoqabil Barakah” has won the prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Berlinale International Film Festival in Germany. The prize, awarded on Saturday by an independent nine-member jury outside the festival’s main...

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A scene from ‘The Valley’. (Ghassan Salhab, 2014)

Two Arab films provoke reflection at Abu Dhabi Film Festival

by Mohammed Rouda | Oct 30, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture

Abu Dhabi, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Abu Dhabi Film Festival took a dark turn on Saturday and Monday with the respective world and Arab premieres of the Egyptian film, El-Ott (The Cat), and the Lebanese film, The Valley. Though boasting markedly differing storylines and...