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QUICK, WHILE THE movie’s still in local theaters! 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 ...
Modern fable whose style evokes spirit of pre-war french cinema and the carefully-photographed look of TV advertising of the 90's. Lars von Trier turns a sound stage into small Colorado town where a ...
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 ...
I set out to make a movie like “Z,” “State of Siege” or “Battle of Algiers,” which were all action movies with ideas, not to mention a hurtling narrative. But there are compromising ...
“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 ...
By trying to dramatize images of repression and wholesale deprivation of civil liberties in The Siege those images to me are much more searing and much more central to the movie than the images of ...
All day, he’s been peppered with questions about his new film, “The Siege,” and charges that ... more searing and much more central to the movie than the images of terrorism,” Zwick ...
“The Siege” has been under siege. Arab-American groups say the movie, starring Denzel Washington, Annette Bening and Bruce Willis and directed by Edward Zwick (“Glory,” “Courage Under ...