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      Kaleem Aftab

      Kaleem Aftab

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      Kaleem is the author of an authorised biography of Spike Lee titled Spike Lee: That’s My Story and I’m Sticking To It. He selects films for the East End Film Festival and gives programming advice to festivals around the globe. He has been working as a freelance journalist specialising in Arab, European and American indie cinema since 1999.
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      Burma VJ 4

      Burma VJ is a well-told and seemingly balanced look at Buddhits monks' 2007 protests against the Burmese authorities.

      October 12, 2009
      The musician Lenny Kravitz, who has a small but pivotal part in Precious, with his co-star Paula Pattan at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
      Precious moment

      Thanks to gritty themes, and a spellbinding performance by its previously unknown star, Precious deserves its status as the toast of the film-festival circuit

      October 12, 2009
      The Informant!

      With a bumbling, unreliable narrator and inaccessible lead character, The Informant! quickly becomes boring.

      October 12, 2009
      In The Informant, Matt Damon stars as the Executive Mark Whitacre, the first person involved in a price-fixing cartel to voluntarily give information to the FBI - though he was also an oddball and a liar.
      Well scripted

      The actor Matt Damon, who can be seen tomorrow in The Informant at MEIFF, speaks about the movie, his project with Clint Eastwood and another Bourne movie.

      UAEOctober 11, 2009
      The Shock Doctrine

      The Shock Doctrine has some trouble transfering from book to film

      October 11, 2009
      White Material

      White Material may be the director Clare Denis's best film in years.

      October 11, 2009
      10 to 11

      The Istanbul-set 10 to 11 is a slow-paced tale of an unlikely friendship.

      October 11, 2009
      Nehjar Isler, left, the producer Nida Karabol Akdeniz, centre, and the director Pelin Esmer, right of the film 10 to 11, which plays at the Middle East International Film Festival.
      Collected memories

      The Turkish filmmaker Pelin Esmer talks about her melancholic new drama playing at the festival.

      October 08, 2009
      White Material, directed by Claire Denis, right, and starring Isabelle Huppert, screens at MEIFF.
      Unique landscape

      The French director Claire Denis speaks about her latest Africa-set film, White Material, which shows at MEIFF.

      October 08, 2009
      The late Heath Ledger as Tony and Verne Troyer as Percy in Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Ledger died suddenly in January last year while making the film.
      Life after Heath

      Terry Gilliam's Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus was made in the shadow of the death of its star, Heath Ledger.

      October 01, 2009
      The Serbian director Vladimir Perisic was awarded The Heart of Sarajevo for best motion picture at the 15th annual Sarajevo Film Festival.
      Not your regular war movie

      The Serbian director Vladimir Perisic talks about the award-winning movie Ordinary People

      September 24, 2009
      Virginia Madsen in The Haunting in Connecticut.
      The Haunting in Connecticut

      The Haunting in Connecticut is an entertaining story that relies on surprises rather than gore.

      September 24, 2009
      The director Ounie Lecomte.
      Director's debut draws on a life-changing moment

      The director Ounie Lecomte's debut film, A Brand New Life, draws upon her own experiences as a child abandoned by her family.

      September 09, 2009
      Green Days mixes documentary footage of the demonstrations that followed the recent election with a ­fictional tale about Ava, a young Iranian woman who is depressed over the country's past political incidents .
      The ones to watch

      As the Venice Film Festival gets under way, a look at the promising entries, the stories that are attracting controversy, and the most talked-about screenings.

      September 03, 2009
      Horsemen

      The director Jonas Ackerlund has shown in his commercial and music-video work that he is a supreme stylist

      September 03, 2009
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