Venice 2009: Omar Sharif, Sergio Castellitto, Martina Gedeck

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
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Julie Christie in the LA WEEKLY

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 and gun-shy, the actress hates being interviewed as much as she hates speaking in public. But as luck would have it, we had met two weeks earlier at a panel discussion about Away From Her, with Christie, her genial co-star Gordon Pinsent and a preternaturally confident [Sarah] Polley. Only Christie looked as though she was expecting to be [...]

Carthage Film Festival 2004: IN CASABLANCA, ANGELS DON’T FLY Wins Top Award

Mohammed Asli’s In Casablanca, Angels Don’t Fly (above), 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 pictures shown at Carthage were In the Battlefields by Lebanon’s Danielle Arbid; the Egyptian-made I Love Cinema, by Oussama Faouzi, which tells the story of a young boy’s love for movies in an environment of strict religious intolerance (the film is Egypt’s entry for the 2005 Academy Awards); and Zaman, Man of the Reeds by Iraq’s Amer [...]