Omar Sharif Articles

Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice, Omar Sharif in William Wyler's Funny Girl A restored print of Funny Girl (1968), Barbra Streisand's film debut, will reignite the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Monday Nights with Oscar” series on Monday, November 15, at 7 p.m. at the Academy Theater at Lighthouse International in New York City. "Monday Nights with Oscar" has been on hiatus for [...]

Sergio Castellitto and Martina Gedeck (one of the stars of The Lives of Others) at the photocall for Vincenzo Terracciano's Tris di donne & abiti nuziali at the 2009 Venice Film Festival Sherif Ramzzy, Omar Sharif, Cyrine AbdelNour at the photocall for Ahmed Maher's Al Mosafer / The Traveler Omar Sharif, Cyrine AbdelNour Photos: Courtesy Venice Film Festival Click on the photos to enlarge them.

Omar Sharif as Dr. Zhivago, Julie Christie as Lara in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago (top); Julie Christie as a woman suffering from Alzheimer's and Gordon Pinsent as her husband in Sarah Polley's Away from Her (bottom).   Ella Taylor on Julie Christie in the LA Weekly: "Spend half an hour with Christie, and you'll experience her ambivalence about Hollywood and almost everything else. Plainly shy [...]

Mohammed Asli’s In Casablanca, Angels Don’t Fly Mohammed Asli’s In Casablanca, Angels Don’t Fly was the winner of the Gold Tanit for Best Film at the 20th edition of the biennial Carthage Film Festival in Tunisia. In Casablanca, Angels Don’t Fly depicts the plight of three migrant Berber workers who try to eke out a living in Morocco’s largest city. Among the other films shown [...]