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Category: Film and TV
BUILDING BRIDGES
Al Jazeera’s Head of International and Media relations, Satnam Matharu talks to the LIP about the station’s reputation and aims for the future.
THE CULT OF THE NEWSREADER
Alice Fordham considers the difference between British newsreaders and their American counterparts.
BEHIND THE SCENES
Christopher Whalen looks at the media on film.
STERN ON SCREEN
Sophie Khadr is amazed by the first Howard Stern Film Festival in New York.
Guantanamo Film Stars Detained in Luton
On returning from the prestigious Berlin Film Festival, the stars of Michael Winterbottom’s ‘The Road to Guantanamo’ were in for a shock at Luton Airport. Actor Rizwan Ahmed explains…
What Price Paradise?
Set against the background of the violence in occupied Palestine, Paradise Now sketches the lives of two young men who find themselves on the front line of the Palestinian resistance movement, for very different reasons, and with very different consequences.
Hide and Seek
‘When a film answers the questions that it raises, well, the work ends there,’ says veteran filmmaker, Michael Haneke.
Rebel Sympathies
Remi Harris watched The Battle for Algiers, accompanied by live music by the Asian Dub Foundation.
Deliver Us From Purification
The LIP’s Film Editor Sophie Khadr was granted a preview of Moolaadé, directed by Senegaleese film wizard Ousmane Sembene.