THE REEL ESTATE: Me and Mr Tati
My viewing patterns of Jacques Tati — France’s greatest comedy filmmaker —…
THE REEL ESTATE: It felt like a ‘Blur’
Summer 2010 may forever be remembered for the puzzling revival of everything…
THE REEL ESTATE: The dwindling summer season and the plunging film market
The chimes of doom erupted in every Egyptian film studio earlier this…
THE REEL ESTATE: A botched game with the ‘Big Guys’
I was briefly acquainted with veteran scriptwriter Bachir El-Dik nine years ago…
THE REEL ESTATE: The last Egyptian action hero
Amid all the doom, gloom and insufferable direness that defined last summer’s…
THE REEL ESTATE: Tears of Egyptian maidens
At one point while I was growing up, our household turned into…
THE REEL ESTATE: Toys, memories and the end of the story
“Toy Story,” Pixar’s first full-length feature, came out in Egypt as I…
THE REEL ESTATE: Arms, drugs and Egyptian mediocrity
One of the highlights of my week has been “Le premier jour…