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Why Can’t China Win an Oscar?
With Zhang Yimou in 2013 at a reception for the Flowers Of War Early this month, the American academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences revealed the list of films from 85…
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Who Benefits from the Chinese invasion of Hollywood?
There was little surprise when Dalian Wanda Group announced last week that it was in talks to buy the Hollywood-based Dick Clark production (DCP), the prolific company behind live television events such…
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Is It Right For Leonardo DiCaprio to Play Persian Poet Rumi?
A storm of angry criticism has been raging over the internet since writer David Franzoni, who won an Oscar for writing “Gladiator,” revealed in an interview with the Guardian, that he would…
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Dubai International Film Festival empowers female directors in the Middle East
While the region around it has descended in political chaos and religious strife, Dubai continues to flourish and prosper, becoming an oasis of harmony and progress, where the natives constitute less than…
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How Did New Technology Impact The Making of The New “Mad Max”?
When Australian director, George Miller, embarked in 1979 on making the futuristic action thriller “Mad Max” with an unknown actor in the lead, Mel Gibson, and with less than a $1 million…
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Is Cinema dying?
Since its release 3 weeks ago, Furious 7, has been breaking one record after another at the box office, scoring the second-biggest worldwide opening of all time ($397.2 million) behind only Harry…
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Sundance movies explore the terrifying impact of authority on human behaviour
Participating movies in the Sundance film festival are usually made on shoestring budgets and often by first-time directors, but they are rich in their substance, bold in their themes and unique in…
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Clint Eastwood’s conflicted morality in American Sniper – interview
Chris Kyle was proclaimed the most lethal sniper in the US military history, with over 160 confirmed kills, most of them were carried out during his deployment in Iraq between 2003-2009, where…
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Tim Burton explores the meaning of Art in “Big Eyes”
What is art? A question posed by director Tim Burton in his new movie “Big Eyes,” which tells the weirder-than-fiction story of, Margaret Keane, the painter of the waiflike figures with sad…
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Ridley Scott in Exodus: Was Moses A Terrorist?
An avalanche of criticism was hurled at Sir Ridley Scott, when he announced the casting of American, European and Australian stars to play African and Middle Eastern characters in his new biblical…