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Some of you rush out and see “The Siege” and tell me if its critics are right — that it paints all Arabs as terrorists — or if they simply watched a different film from the one I saw.
Protests against movie portrayals of Arabs and Muslims are far from unusual, yet “The Siege” seemed poised to offer a tonic, not more fuel for the fire. After all, racism against Arabs is a ...
operating out of Brooklyn – the same borough the Islamic terrorists in “The Siege” operate from. “I didn’t invent the world,” the director says at the end of a londay of press ...
A terrorist mutters a Muslim prayer in Arabic during interrogation. Another, gun and bombs in hand, vows to make “martyrs” at a public protest. Chilling images riddle The Siege, a new film ...
others were seeking — perhaps unexpectedly — movies like 1998's The Siege, centered around terrorist attacks on New York, which is about as close to last week's horrific attacks as you can come.
2 Stars ‘THE SIEGE’ WANTS TO TEACH you a lesson. In fact, it wants to teach you quite a few. For starters, that not all Arabs are crazed terrorists, that our civil liberties are precious and ...
Our Flick of the Week is “The Siege,” an exciting and thoughtful rumination on the tricky issue of urban terrorism and how to combat it. Co-writer and director Edward Zwick, who happens to be ...
“The Siege” is a movie that’s faded into the history books — because it turned out to be too close to the historic horror of Sept. 11. Director Edward Zwick’s 1998 thriller about ...