In 2011 I watched a movie on cable TV called Sisters. It’s a very early (1973) Brian DePalma thriller/murder-mystery about a local Staten Island journalist (played by Jennifer Salt) who sees a murder from her apartment window—my apartment window! Well, my apartment window or the window of one of the other five apartments directly above [...]
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Brian DePalma filmed in my apartment?
Posted in Beyond Borders, border conflicts, Films, Popular Culture, tagged apartment, Brian De Palma, film, movie, real, Sisters, suspense thriller, time-space, twins, unreal on February 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Slingshots and Checkpoints
Posted in Films, tagged Documentary, film, hip hop, Palestine on April 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Several weeks ago I attended the NYC premiere of a film called “Slingshot Hip Hop” at MoMA. It’s a feature length documentary film produced by first-time director Jackie Reem Salloum. It may have been her first film, but you would never know if she didn’t say so—in front of a sold-out theater. Through cinéma vérité [...]
A short short story based on Alexander Sokurov’s film “Alexandra”
Posted in Films, tagged Alexandra, Chechnya, film, Kalashnikov, movie, Russia, soldiers, Sukoruv, war on April 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Alexandra travels south on a military train. She sits apart from the young soldiers. Surely each of the men deserves a hug from this proud Russian woman, but Alexandra is also surly and resists social niceties. At times she mumbles to herself. Her body is in pain, especially when the soldiers have to help her [...]
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