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Rinat Matatov, Shlomi Avraham, and Saleh Bakri in The Band's Visit (Eran Kolirin, 2007)
Cast: Sasson Gabal, Ronit Elkabetz, Saleh Bakri, Khalifa Natour, Uri Gavriel, Shlomi Avraham, Rinat Matatov, Hilla Sarjon. Ahuva Keren, Tomer Josef. Screenplay: Eran Kolirin. Cinematography: Shai Goldman. Film editing: Arik Leibovitch. Music: Habib Shadah.
The Band's Visit is a cats-and-dogs movie: a meeting of two supposedly antagonistic cultures, in which each side learns something from the confrontation. But it avoids formula by fresh performances and a wry directorial distancing. Eight members of a police force orchestra from Alexandria, Egypt, find themselves stranded in the Israeli desert because of a misunderstanding about the name of their destination. They are supposed to play at the opening of an Arab Cultural Center in Israel, but they get off the bus by the side of the highway, across from a small cafe. The owner of the cafe, Dina (Ronit Elkabetz), scoffs at the notion that they are there to play at a cultural center: "Here there is no Arab culture. Also, no Israeli culture. Here there is no culture at all." The bleak little town is mostly modern high-rise apartments and the "park" has neither grass nor trees. She discovers the source of the error -- they were supposed to go to a town whose name sounded similar -- and tells them that there's not another bus until the next morning. The stubborn, autocratic leader of the band, Tawfiq (Sasson Gabal), decides to set out on foot, and the other seven band members, dressed in light blue uniforms, follow until Haled (Saleh Bakri), a handsome young violinist, complains that they haven't eaten all day. Tawfiq blows his top and puts Haled on report, but when the other band members confess their hunger, relents and returns to the cafe, where Dina feeds them and suggests that she and some of the men who hang around the cafe can put them up for the night. And so the film tracks the experiences of these strangers in a strange land through the night. We learn, for example, why Tawfiq is such a sourpuss and why the clarinetist, Simon (Khalifa Natour), is blocked in his attempts to compose a concerto. The most charming and funny scene involves Haled, who has already been established as something of a ladies' man, who goes out as a fifth wheel with Ars (Tomer Josef) and Papi (Shlomi Avraham) on their double date. Papi is upset because he has been stuck with Yula (Rinat Matatov), whom he regards as depressing. But then Papi is a virgin with no experience of women, and Haled takes it on himself to show Papi the ropes. At a small roller disco, Papi and Haled, who don't know how to skate, are sidelined. Yula tries to get Papi out on the floor, but he rebuffs her. As closing time draws near, an attendant starts packing up the plastic chairs, and Yula, who is in tears, is forced to sit on a bench with Papi and Haled, who takes a handkerchief out of his pocket and hands it to Papi, who hands it to Yula. Then Haled takes a small airline liquor bottle out of his pocket, hands it to Papi, prompting him to offer Yula a drink. She accepts and Papi returns the bottle to Haled after both have drunk from it. Then Haled places his hand on Papi's knee as a suggestion that he follow suit with Yula. Then he begins to caress Papi's knee as another suggestion. Finally, when Yula puts her hand on Papi's, Papi puts his hand on Haled's. Haled removes it: lesson over. This long single take is characteristic of director Eran Kolirin's sly style throughout the film, which was a huge hit in Israel and would have been that country's Oscar nominee for best foreign language film except that it was ruled ineligible because half of the dialogue is in English -- the language the Egyptians and Israelis use to communicate with one another.
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A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.
Credits: TheMovieDb.
Film Cast:
Ronald Fleury: Jamie Foxx
Janet Mayes: Jennifer Garner
Grant Sykes: Chris Cooper
Adam Leavitt: Jason Bateman
Sergeant Haytham: Ali Suliman
Damon Schmidt: Jeremy Piven
Colonel Faris Al Ghazi: Ashraf Barhom
Robert Grace: Richard Jenkins
Aaron Jackson: Tim McGraw
Francis Manner: Kyle Chandler
Elaine Flowers: Frances Fisher
Gideon Young: Danny Huston
Ellis Leach: Kelly AuCoin
Maricella Canavesio: Anna Deavere Smith
Miss Ross: Minka Kelly
Lyla Fleury: Amy Hunter
Kevin Fleury: Tj Burnett
Prince Ahmed Bin Khaled: Omar Berdouni
Prince Thamer: Raad Rawi
FBI Agent: Peter Berg
Kidnapper: Sala Baker
35 Year Old Son: Ahmed B. Badran
Janine Ripon: Ashley Scott
Haytham’s Father: Nick Faltas
Izz Al Din: Uri Gavriel
Abu Hamza: Hezi Saddik
Aunt: Yasmine Hanani
General Al Abdulmalik: Mahmoud Said
Rex Burr: Tom Bresnahan
Earl Ripon: Trevor St. John
Maddy Ripon: Sarah Hunley
Range Rover Driver: Kevin Brief
Pitcher: Brian Mahoney
Reporter: Merik Tadros
Suicide Bomber: Hrach Titizian
Reporter: Sean Donnellan
FBI agent: Markus Flanagan
Inner-Circle: Anthony Batarse
Special Forces Officer: Gino Salvano
Kidnapper: Eyad Elbitar
Passport Officer: Nick Hermz
Self (archive footage): Osama Bin Laden
Self (archive footage): George H. W. Bush
New Reporter: Robin Atkin Downes
Self (archive footage): Saddam Hussein
Self (archive footage): John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage): Larry King
Self (archive footage): Colin Powell
Self (archive footage): Ronald Reagan
Film Crew:
Director: Peter Berg
Screenplay: Matthew Michael Carnahan
Producer: Michael Mann
Director of Photography: Mauro Fiore
Editor: Colby Parker Jr.
Editor: Kevin Stitt
Costume Design: Susan Matheson
Producer: Scott Stuber
Original Music Composer: Danny Elfman
Producer: Tim Smythe
Executive Producer: Sarah Aubrey
Executive Producer: John Cameron
Executive Producer: Ryan Kavanaugh
Executive Producer: Mary Parent
Unit Production Manager: Steven P. Saeta
Casting: Bruria Albeck
Casting: Amanda Mackey
Casting: Cathy Sandrich Gelfond
Production Design: Tom Duffield
Assistant Editor: Kris Cole
Stunts: Zoë Bell
Stunts: Sala Baker
Art Direction: A. Todd Holland
Supervising Art Director: Patrick M. Sullivan
Set Decoration: Ronald R. Reiss
Visual Effects Supervisor: John ‘D.J.’ Des Jardin
Stunt Double: Shauna Duggins
In Memory Of: Nick Papac
Stunts: Sherry Leigh
Stunts: Layla Alexander
Stunts: Doug Coleman
First Assistant Director: K.C. Hodenfield
Associate Producer: Maria Williams
Special Effects Makeup Artist: Quin Davis
Makeup Department Head: Bill Myer
Hairstylist: Barbara Lorenz
Hair Department Head: Roxie Hodenfield
Makeup Artist: Deborah La Mia Denaver
Hairstylist: Deidra Dixon
Makeup Artist: Michael Germain
Hairstylist: Lisa Bertuzzi
Makeup Artist: LaLette Littlejohn
Key Hair Stylist: Melissa Forney
Hairstylist: Jeffrey Sacino
Second Unit Director: Phil Neilson
Second Assistant Director: Jeff Okabayashi
Supervising Sound Editor: Gregory King
Sound Designer: Yann Delpuech
Special Effects Coordinator: John Frazier
Special Effects Coordinator: Burt Dalton
Stunts: Kaily Alissano
Stunts: Daniel Arrias
Stunts: Greg Anthony
Stunts: Jon Braver
Stunts: Brian Brown
Stunts: Chino Binamo
Stunts: Eric Chambers
Stunts: Jack Carpenter
Stunts: Douglas Crosby
Stunts: Max Daniels
Stunts: Gokor Chivichyan
Stunts: Steve Dent
Stunt Double: J. Mark Donaldson
Stunts: Eyad Elbitar
Stunts: Paul Eliopoulos
Stunt Double: Eddie J. Fernandez
Stunts: Glenn Goldstein
Stunts: Tad Griffith
Stunt Driver: J. Armin Garza II
Stunts: Nick Hermz
Stunt Double: Chris Guzzi
Stunts: Alex Krimm
Stunts: Mark Kubr
Stunts: Michael Hugghins
Stunts: Theo Kypri
Stunts: Krisztian Kery
Stunts: Nito Larioza
Stunt Driver: Aaron Michael Lacey
Stunt Double: Brian Machleit
Stunt Double: Jalil Jay Lynch
Stunts: Anthony Martins
Stunts: Eddie Matthews
Stunts: Anderson Martin
Stunts: Damien Moreno
Stunts: Roman Mitichyan
Stunts: Aladine Naamou
Stunts: Aryan Morgan
Stunts: Robert Nagle
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🌟💍👸🕺💃🎥 a wacky comedy about the exercise of politics (on Blu-ray, DVD and VOD) ...... 🎶🏆💔📸🎉
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Byzantium (2012) Neil Jordan
January 8th 2020
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Here’s Tevin’s Storm solo film fancast for Fancast Friday!
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Mary Magdalene (2018)
Mary Magdalene is an authentic and humanistic portrait of one of the most enigmatic and misunderstood spiritual figures in history. The biblical biopic tells the story of Mary (Rooney Mara), a young woman in search of a new way of living. Constricted by the hierarchies of the day, Mary defies her traditional family to join a new social movement led by the charismatic Jesus of Nazareth (Joaquin Phoenix). She soon finds a place for herself within the movement and at the heart of a journey that will lead to Jerusalem.
Directed by: Garth Davis
Starring: Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tahar Rahim, Ryan Corr, Ariane Labed, Uri Gavriel, Lubna Azabal
Release date: March 16, 2018
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Sam Browning - asetta vaarallisempi / Blink of an Eye (1992) Finnkino https://www.videospace.fi/release/sam_browning_asetta_vaarallisempi_vhs_finnkino_finland
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hi helpers! do you still do family templates? if yes can you do one for lola kirke please? thanks a lot :)
for a father i could see harmony korine (48), chris kattan (50), uri gavriel (66) or igal naor (62) working. for a mother i could see courteney cox (56), shannen doherty (49) or melinda clarke (51). for a sister i think the best bet would be to go with her actual sisters jemima kirke (35) or domino kirke (37) as there aren’t a ton of other iraqi jewish faceclaims that i know of that fit their ethnicity. and for a half sister i would go with alice dellal (33). for half brothers i would go with shane haboucha (30). for a cousin or uncle i would go with elliott yamin (42). hope this helped you out.
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✶ — › hello birdies !! under the cut you will find 128 jewish names. some families make their name choice based on tradition, therefore, be sure to search the meaning of these names. click the ♡ button or reblog this post to spread the word !! enjoy !!
first of all, a couple articles that may help you:
jewish name pratice
jewish baby naming rules
female:
adah
adinah
asnat (asenath)
avigail (abigail)
batya
bilha
bina
chava (evie)
chaya
devorah (deborah)
dobah
eliana
eliza
elizabeth
ellie
esther (asheirah)
freeda
freida
gelleh
genana
genesis
golda
hadassah
hannah
hila
ilana
illa
iris
kayla
leah
lila
malka
margola
matilda
miriam
naomi
nechamah
noa
odeya
peninah
puah
rachel
reyna
rivkah (rebecca)
roda (rhoda)
ruth
sadie
sarah
shira
shoshanah
shulamit
simchah
talia
tamar
tehilah
tzipporah
tziviah
yael
yehudit (judith)
yiska (iskah) (jessica)
yonah
zelda
zissa
zlata
male:
abbah
adam
aharon
ariel
asher
azriel
baruch (benedikt)
berekhyah
betzalel
binyamin (benjamin)
chanoch
chayim (chaim)
dan
daniel
david
efrayim
elazar (lazarus)
elimelech (elimelekh)
eliyahu (elijah)
erza
ethan
ever (eber)
feivish
fishel
gad
gavriel (gabriel)
gedaliah
gershom
immanuel
kalonymus
lemuel
levi
lieber
matthew
menachem
meshulam
michael
mordechai (mordecai)
moshe (moses)
naftali (naphtali)
natan (nathan)
netanel
noach (noah)
omer
pinchas (phineas)
refael (rephael)
shabtai
shalom
shaul (saul)
shefatyah
shimon (simon)
shlomo (solomon)
shmuel (samuel)
toviyah (tobias)
tzvi (hirsch)
uri
yaakov (jacob)
yechezkel (ezekiel)
yehoshua (joshua)
yehudah (judah)
yeshayahu (isaiah)
yosef (joseph)
zelig
zundel
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Una settimana e un giorno
Una settimana e un giorno
Un ibrido mal riuscito fra la commedia e il dramma, un’opera irrisolta poiché indecisa sulla direzione da prendere e incapace di amalgamare due generi diversi e antitetici. (more…)
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Mary Magdalene - 4 movie clips: https://teaser-trailer.com/movie/mary-magdalene/
starring Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tahar Rahim, Ryan Corr, Ariane Labed, Uri Gavriel, and Lubna Azabal
#MaryMagdalene #MaryMagdaleneMovie
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Fancast of the day: Uri Gavriel as Shadow King!
The Shadow King was born from the first nightmare. He is the embodiment of the darkness in the souls of humans and when the mutant Amahl Farouk’s powers developed, he unwittingly came to merge with the Shadow King. The Shadow King is an important figure in Storm’s past as a thief as Amahl was the king of Cairo’s thieving underworld. The Shadow King is also a huge nemesis for not just Storm, but also Professor X. The Dark Knight Rises‘s Uri Gavriel is the perfect choice to portray the larger than life Shadow King.
Full Storm solo film fancast here.
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