05 Tuesday Feb 2013
Speaking last year, Aaron Sorkin said that writing the forthcoming Steve Jobs biopic was like “writing about The Beatles” – an arduous task with numerous minefields if he were to avoid disappointing the droves who still adore and revere the late Apple boss. Daunting Sorkin’s screenplay may have been, but it’s nothing compared to the task the acclaimed Iranian visual artist Shirin Neshat has on her hands.
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31 Thursday Jan 2013
Posted in Cinematography - Middle East
Where are Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich when you need them? An upcoming British movie, “The Lady Who Went Too Far,” sounds like it would have been a perfect vehicle for the actress and director who followed their German masterpiece “The Blue Angel” with the six classics of romantic exotica they made at Paramount in the 1930s. Based on Kirsten Ellis’s 2008 biography “Star of the Morning: The Extraordinary Life of Lady Hester Stanhope,” the film will tell the story of the fearless socialite, camel-mounted desert traveler, and archaeological treasure-seeker who in 1815 conducted the first modern excavation in Palestine.
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