Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Review By: Roger Ebert When David Lean’s “Doctor Zhivago” was released in 1965, it was pounced upon by the critics, who found it a picture-postcard view of revolution, a love story balanced uneasily atop a painstaking reconstruction of Russia. Lean was known for his elaborate […]

Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974)

Review By: Roger Ebert Martin Scorsese’s” Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” opens with a parody of the Hollywood dream world little girls were expected to carry around in their intellectual baggage a generation ago. The screen is awash with a fake sunset, and a sweet […]

All the President’s Men (1976)

Review By: Roger Ebert “All the President’s Men” is truer to the craft of journalism than to the art of storytelling, and that’s its problem. The movie is as accurate about the processes used by investigative reporters as we have any right to expect, and […]

The Black Stallion (1979)

Review By: Farouq Abdul-Aziz “The Black Stallion” might seem to many a just another children movie.But it is only the first impression, reminiscent of another generated on watching Sidney Lumet’s ‘The Wiz’ three weeks ago. Accordingly we tend to classify our interests inside everybody’s family […]

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980)

Review By: Farouq Abdul-Aziz Three women in search of a dream Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears (1980), directed by V. Menshov, has always gained a phenomenal success wherever shown. Dubbed in several international languages,screened publicly in over 50 […]

Adieu Bonaparte (1985)

Review By: Farouq Abdul-Aziz KUWAIT TIMES, MONDAY DECEMBER 9, 1985 TONIGHT’S presentation is the latest production of the Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine, the Franco-Egyptian Adieu Bonaparte (100 minutes). The film had received its world pre¬miere a few months ago as the Egyptian entry in the […]