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Cinema on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.(Editorial)
June 22, 2009... For a national cinema from a nation that has yet to achieve independent statehood, and that presently sustains a devastated civil infrastructure, Palestinian cinema has miraculously survived. One might even say that Palestinian cinema has actually prospered in recent years, despite the...

Iron curtain auteurs lost voices from East Germany's DEFA Studios.(Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft)(Viewpoint essay)
June 22, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Though much critical attention is given to West German films associated with Neue Deutsche Kino, the cinematic achievements of East Germany, or Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), have been far less visible. To reverse this trend, the DEFA Film Library at the...

Acting in the grand manner: an interview with Christopher Plummer.(Interview)
June 22, 2009... Memoirs of actors are one of the least esteemed literary genres. Usually ghostwritten farragoes of gossip and untrammeled self-promotion, they often turn up on remaindered tables mere months after publication. A rare "star" memoir written with both wit and flair (and without any outside...

Reclaiming Palestine, one film at a time.(Report)
June 22, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In Waiting, the 2005 feature film by Palestinian director Rashid Masharawi, the main character, Ahmad, is assigned an important mission: travel to refugee camps in Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon to seek out every possible Palestinian actor for a new European...

The hazards of occupation: documentaries by and about Palestinians and Israelis in the occupied territories.(Report)
June 22, 2009... The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a classic "hot-potato" issue, on which there are widely divergent, bitterly contested viewpoints, making nonfiction documentation of Israel's occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank an ideological minefield. Where do you go? Whom do you talk to, or...