“I couldn’t understand why the characters were still living with their parents!” Between bang-trimming and magazine skimming, that was what Jennifer, my hair stylist here in Saint Louis, asked me while we discussed the Lebanese movie “Caramel,” released in the summer of 2008. The subject of foreign movies somehow came up, and as soon as Jennifer [...]

Towelhead?  Seriously?  Why not camel jockey or sand nigger?  Just as well, of course. The writer must have been trying to be a little different perhaps. Well there was nothing different about the movie “Towelhead” in my opinion.  Apart from the fact that there was an extremely annoying and unredeemable Lebanese character who played the role [...]

“No, I am not ok. Shouldn’t you have your seat belt on ?”
I just came out of the screening of “Je veux voire”/”Beddeh chouf” at the Dubai International Film Festival. In a packed Madinat Theatre, with its comfortable seating and ornamented theatre, Joana Hadjithomas introduced her and her partner’s latest creation.
It was premiered in Cannes 2008 [...]