FILM/SNEAK PEEK : MOVIES CHRONICLE THE ARAB WORLD.This is the last weekend to catch the UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX Film and Television Archive's celebration of films from the Arab world “Arab States” redirects here. For the political alliance, see Arab League. The Arab World (Arabic: العالم العربي; Transliteration: al-`alam al-`arabi) stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the , a collection of rich but little-seen movies. Two films will be screened beginning at 7:30 p.m. Saturday: ``Chronicle of a Disappearance,'' a 1996 film by documentarian doc·u·men·tar·i·an also doc·u·men·ta·rist n. One that makes documentaries or a documentary. Elia Suleiman about the remains of the Palestinian national identity; and ``Once Upon a Time, Beirut,'' a 1994 film about two young women who actually enter a series of films about Beirut to explore the city's history and complexity. Suleiman's film deliberately blurs the line between realism and fiction to present a ``compilation of possible truths'' about middle-class Arabs trying to escape their ghettoized existence. Suleiman grew up in Nazareth and Jerusalem but left Palestine for New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of as an adult. The CineArabic festival continues at 7 p.m. Sunday with ``The Silences of the Palace'' and ``Omar Gatlato.'' ``Silences'' is a Tunisian-French 1994 production about the daughter of a servant for the last kings of Tunisia in the Bey's Palace. ``Omar'' is a 1976 Algerian film about machismo machismo Exaggerated pride in masculinity, perceived as power, often coupled with a minimal sense of responsibility and disregard of consequences. In machismo there is supreme valuation of characteristics culturally associated with the masculine and a denigration of and male posturing in the Arab nation. CineArabic concludes at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday with two Algerian-French films: ``Bab Al-Oued City,'' a 1994 drama about the rise of Islamic fundamentalism Islamic fundamentalism is a term used to describe religious ideologies seen as advocating literalistic interpretations of the texts of Islam and of Sharia law.[1] Definitions of the term vary. ; and ``Cheb,'' a 1991 film about a young Algerian man raised in Paris who is deported after his arrest for a minor crime. All films are in Arabic with English subtitles. All will be shown at the James Bridges Theater, located in Westwood near the corner of Sunset Boulevard Sunset Boulevard is a street in the western part of Los Angeles County, California, that stretches from Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Coast Highway at the Pacific Ocean in the Pacific Palisades. and Hilgard Avenue. Tickets are $6; $4 for students and seniors. Tickets cannot be reserved or purchased in advance, and all seats are first come, first served. For information, call (310) 206-3456 or (310) 206-8014. Writers talk: The Writers Guild Foundation is hosting a public forum on film and television writing next month that has an incredibly impressive lineup of panelists, including Alan Alda Alan Alda (born January 28, 1936) is a five-time Emmy Award-winning, six-time Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated American actor. He is perhaps most famous for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the television series M*A*S*H. , Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, Steven Bochco, James L. Brooks, Cameron Crowe, Danny DeVito, Buck Henry, Rob Reiner and Anthony Minghella, who won last month's Best Director Oscar for ``The English Patient.'' Panel topics range from ``Twister Impossible - The Movie as an E-Ticket Ride,'' to ``Who Ripped Out the TV Movie's Heart and Stomped on It?'' The forum will be held at the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel May 30 through June 1. The foundation has a $335 ``early-bird special'' for those who sign up before April 30. Call (213) 782-4692 for updates. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: ``The English Patient'' director Anthony Minghella is one of the panelists at an upcoming Writers Guild forum, which features such topics as ``Who Ripped Out the TV Movie's Heart and Stomped on It?'' |
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