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Some of my grown-up cinephile friends, perfectly reasonable beings otherwise, turn into crybabies when it ...
Departures is nakedly manipulative. Its director, Yôjirô Takita, doesn’t show any sensitivity to tone or ...
Ghost stories. They have haunted many genres – horror-slash-supernatural, comedy, romance,  fantasy. They have been ...
Hot Fuzz is the type of movie that offers up something for just about anyone, ...

Archive for the ‘Lebanese Cinema’ Category

Caramel (Sukkar Banat) - Nadine Labaki

Posted by Samakshi On August - 28 - 2008 3 COMMENTS

Lebanon director Labaki’s first appearance film Caramel is a sticky-sweet serving of women who work in and wander around a quaintly colorful beauty salon, set in the capital of the Lebanon Republic. The dazzling debut director (who plays the role of Layale, the salon owner herself) shows an appetizing mishmash of women who tread along and seek for themselves in their subtle ways, a life of happiness, love and security. Five women who slickly run their glossy salon, eagerly preoccupied with their lurking lovers…

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Police recovers Picasso’s Little Guitar

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The Roman police have recovered Picasso's Little Guitar, from a local businessman, CBC news reported. ...

Gold fresco by Richard Wright wins Turner Prize

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Glasgow-based artist Richard Wright, who created a gorgeous fresco in gold leaf, has won this ...

Nabokov’s unfinished novel reappears

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Vladimir Nabokov wanted it burned on his death, but The Original of Laura survived and ...

Paltrow joins Kidman’s transsexual film The Danish Girl

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Gwyneth Paltrow has signed on to The Danish Girl, a film chronicling the real-life story ...

Haitian-born Montrealer wins Blue Met writing prize

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Dany Laferrière, a Haitian-born Montrealer known for his provocative and thoughtful novels, has won the ...

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