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...Cinema Club, for example, is run as part of a film class at a local Catholic school, but most of its students are Muslims. Inside, the altar of the Virgin Mary is easy to disassemble so that the room can revert to being a Cinema Club when the Muslim students return to class. On the wall hangs a trinity of portraits that display the seemingly contradictory loyalties of Palestinian Christians: the Latin Patriarch, the Pope and late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. (See pictures of heartbreak in the Middle East...
...pushed him away, motioning him away with her hands. After Ghobadi's letter, Reza Saberi announced that he could not confirm Ghobadi as his daughter's fiancee. One source close to the family said they perceive him as taking advantage of her recent newsworthiness to publicize his film, and wonder why he was not speaking out for her before her case attracted such international attention. Ghobadi said he had been ordered to keep silent by sources he could not reveal, and finally broke his silence when he "could no longer hold...
...believed it was in great part because of his endeavors that Saberi was being released so quickly. He said he had a meeting with government and judiciary officials a few days ago, in which he explained to them the importance of Saberi appearing at the opening of his new film on Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival, "because she was going to talk about the Persian Gulf. I told them it would be good for Iran." Ghobadi has cited Saberi as a co-writer on his latest film...
...Ghosts of Girlfriends Past won the show position with a more demure drop of 32%; but it wasn't falling from lofty heights, more stepping off a curb. Beyonce's Obsessed and the Zac Efron 17 Again filled out the top five. Less successful at reviving a dormant film form - the 1970s blaxploitation comedy - was the druggy Next Day Air, which took in just $4 million. It finished first only in the Cool Name for a Director category: Benny Boom. (Read about Star Trek's evolution through the decades...
...Spock, and Eric Bana, star of the lambasted Ang Lee version of The Hulk, for the bad-guy role of Nero. But Chris Pine (young Kirk) and Zachary Quinto (young Spock) are actors not previously seen on a movie marquee; they might not even be in FaceBook. The film's biggest on-screen name is probably Winona Ryder, hard to recognize as (gasp!) Spock's human...