Husam “Sam” Asi
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Will “Tyrant” reflect reality in the Middle East? – interview
While the Middle East rages with popular uprisings and civil wars and its people are being butchered by their leaders and terror groups, American and Israeli filmmakers are seeking to capture this harsh reality on TV.…
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Clint Eastwood: I Never Let the Old Man in – interview
Smiling jovially and offering greetings as he saunters into a meeting room in New York’s Astoria Waldorf, Clint Eastwood conjures up none of the tough characters, most notably eponymous Dirty Harry, that he portrayed in so…
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Sam Mendes uses two different parts of his brain for Theatre and Cinema
Originating in ancient Athens, theatre had dominated human culture for nearly 2500 years, offering its audience a live performance of actors who communicated their experiences to them through a combination of gesture, song, speech, dance and…
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Overlapping Dark Themes at the Cannes Film Festival
Following a limping opening with the controversial biopic “Grace of Monaco,” that was panned by the critics, condemned by the royal family of Monaco, and avoided by its American distributor Harvey Weinstein who was glaringly absent…
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Why was Ellen Page afraid to come out as gay?
At the age of 15, Ellen Page knew that she had a sexual propensity to women, and she thought that she was bisexual until she turned 20, when she became sure that she was gay and…
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Zac Efron: Drug addiction was a great life lesson – interview
“I was a little bit on my own,” Zac Efron tells me when I speak to him at the Meridien Oriental hotel in New York. This sense of loneliness, isolation and abandonment that possesses child actors…
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Cameron Diaz urges women to watch comedies
Cameron Diaz wanted to make The Other Woman because it was a story about female friendship. “But it wasn’t,” she exclaims, when I talk to her at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. “I am…
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How New Wave was François Truffaut’s cinema?
In its 18th edition, Colcoa (City of Lights, City of Angels) Film Festival, which is considered the biggest French film festival outside of France, screening this year 61 films this year, celebrated the legacy of iconic…
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Is Johnny Depp to blame for Transcendance box office failure? – interview
The dismal performance of Johnny Depp’s starrer “Transcendence” in the US box office over the weekend heralded the 4th flop in a row for the Hollywood superstar. The $100 million production opened with just $11 million.…
