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World War I films set in the Middle East (1 C, 15 P) Pages in category "Films set in the Middle East" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total.
Eventually since the 1950s Egyptian cinema was and still is the main dominating Arab and Middle Eastern film industry and this led to many other Middle Eastern countries incorporating Egyptian conventions into their own films. [1] Each Middle Eastern country has a different and distinctive culture of cinema which differs in both history and ...
In the United States, contemporary war films have performed relatively poorly. Analysts attributed this to the film's Middle East setting and exploration of terrorism. Brandon Gray pointed out that people read these themes in the news media already, and there is a perception that Hollywood films are biased. [35]
Josef Gugler (ed.) Film in the Middle East and North Africa: Creative Dissidence, University of Texas Press and American University in Cairo Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-292-72327-6, ISBN 978-9-774-16424-8; Josef Gugler (ed.) Ten Arab Filmmakers: Political Dissent and Social Critique, Indiana University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-253-01652-2
In 1999, the film placed third in the British Film Institute's poll of the best British films of the 20th century. In 2001, the magazine Total Film called it "as shockingly beautiful and hugely intelligent as any film ever made" and "faultless". [98] It was ranked in the top ten films of all time in the 2002 Sight and Sound directors' poll. [99]
According to the Los Angeles Times, The Hurt Locker performed better than most recent dramas about Middle East conflict. The film outperformed all other Iraq-war-themed films such as In the Valley of Elah (2007), Stop-Loss (2008) and Afghanistan -themed Lions for Lambs (2007).
Beirut, also known as The Negotiator in the United Kingdom, [2] is a 2018 American political thriller film [3] directed by Brad Anderson and written by Tony Gilroy.. Set in 1982 during the Lebanese Civil War, the film stars Jon Hamm as Mason Skiles, a former U.S. diplomat who returns to service in Beirut in order to save a colleague from the group responsible for the death of Skiles' wife.
The Human Factor is a 2019 American-Israeli documentary film directed by Dror Moreh.The film follows a thirty-year effort to secure peace in the Middle-East. The film had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on August 30, 2019.