Tag: The Stranger
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Busan Film Festival Competition Showcases Mori Tatsuya’s Feature Debut, Choi Ji’s Exploration of Hong Kong, Bangladesh Trio
The main competition section of the Busan International Film Festival is set to showcase two new features from Bangladeshi directors, the feature debut of Japanese documentary maker Mori Tatsuya and ruminations on Hong Kong by mainland Chinese director Choi Ji.The festival on Wednesday unveiled its New Currents competition section, reserved for films by directors making…
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Mad Solutions Launches Mad Crew Celebrity Unit to Act as Publicists for Arab Directors and Producers (Exclusive)
Prominent Arab talent management agency and film distribution company Mad Solutions is launching Mad Crew Celebrity, a new unit dedicated to boosting the careers of Arab directors and producers, as well as writers, cinematographers, costume designers, composers and editors.Mad Crew Celebrity comes after the company in 2020 formed its Mad Rising Celebrity division, dedicated to…
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10 Gripping Australian Crime Movies Everyone Should Stream After Netflix’s ‘The Stranger’
The New Netflix release, The Stranger, is the latest to join a long line of great crime movies to emerge from Australia. The plot is based on a real-life murder case (though the true details of the crime are never mentioned) and follows Mark Frame (Joel Edgerton), a police officer tasked with going undercover. He…
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The Rings of Power: Is The Stranger a Blue Wizard?
Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for all of Season 1 of The Rings of Power.As we learn from The Stranger (Daniel Weyman) in the season finale of The Rings of Power, the word Istar means “wise one” or “wizard”. There are many clues indicating who exactly this wizard is. To understand what the identity…
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What Are The Lands Of Rhûn? The Lord Of The Rings’ Eastlands Explained
This post contains spoilers for “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.”Prime Video’s “The Rings of Power” concluded its first season with a heart-thumping finale, while managing to bring stray narrative threads together in a satisfying fashion. A lot of big reveals took place, confirming flaming hot fan theories: Halbrand is Sauron! The…
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The Rings Of Power Strengthens The History Between Gandalf And Halflings
Gandalf the Grey has been around for a long time. Long before he met Frodo Baggins, or even Bilbo, J.R.R. Tolkien’s works say he was created as a Maiar, a celestial-like being that forged the earth before the First Age. Yet the author’s texts only give us the specifics of Gandalf’s history during the Third…
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Oscar Hopeful Ameer Fakher Eldin Reteams With Red Balloon, Fresco Films for Next Film (Exclusive)
Germany’s Red Balloon Film and Palestine’s Fresco Films have boarded director Ameer Fakher Eldin’s second film “Nothing of Nothing Remains.” The film is part of a trilogy building on his first film, “The Stranger” (pictured), which premiered in Venice and represents Palestine at the Oscars in the International Feature Film category.“Nothing of Nothing Remains” has…
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‘The Stranger’ Review: Glowering, Gorgeously Shot Parable of Occupation and Oppression in the Golan Heights
Gloom, deployed as a storytelling tactic, can exert a strange, unsettling pull when it’s as capably and beautifully conveyed as in Syrian director Ameer Fakher Eldin’s “The Stranger,” recently announced as Palestine’s international Oscar entry. A granular depiction of oppression as a kind of inescapable inheritance handed down from father to son, with mothers and…
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Oscars Race: ‘The Stranger’ Selected by Palestine as International Feature Candidate, Intramovies Takes Sales (Exclusive)
“The Stranger,” a first feature by writer/director Ameer Fakher Eldin about a doctor going through an existential crisis in the occupied Golan Heights, has been selected as Palestine’s official entry in the International Feature Film category at the upcoming Academy Awards.Italy’s Intramovies has announced taking world rights to the pic shot on location which recently…
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On Location in Golan Heights With Venice Film Entry ‘The Stranger’ (Exclusive)
It’s not often that films shoot in the Occupied Golan Heights, Israel’s contested border territory with Syria and Lebanon.Characterized by sloping mountains and the ruins of more than 100 Syrian villages, destroyed (by Israel) after the Six Day War in 1967, it makes for an atmospheric filming location. This can be seen in “The Stranger”…