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...turbo-charged level of audience involvement. In a science fiction film like this one, you'll be able to inhabit that world, not just watch it but be in it. I think people want that. If people are going to get out of their homes and go to the cinema, the cinema better show them something it hasn't in the past...
...wraps the movie around you. If people are going to get out of their homes and go to the cinema, the cinema better show them something it hasn't in the past...
While it's not surprising that Lebanese have sought refuge in cinema from the country's sectarian tensions, it does seem strange that many of them are going to see a movie about, at least in part, sectarian tension in the United States. When it opened on Thanksgiving, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan was the third most watched movie in Lebanon, trailing only such blockbuster fare as Casino Royale...
...When Georges Hadadd, the head of Empire cinema, one of the largest distributors in the Middle East, decided to buy the rights to distribute Borat, half his staff thought he was crazy. "And not for reasons you might expect," he said from his office above the company theaters in a Beirut shopping mall. "Not because of all the Jewish stuff...
...involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. And since the Syrian withdrawal, local audiences have seen such racy fare as Brokeback Mountain and Munich, Stephen Spielberg's drama about Israel's campaign to avenge athletes slain by Palestinian terrorists at the 1976 Olympics. Lebanese cinema-goers are also now more likely to see the spicy bits usually excised from R-rated fare...