Films/TV
Film Review: Cairo Time
On very rare occasions you get to watch a movie so enticing that you never want it to end. Such is the case of Cairo Time, a stunningly beautiful film that leaves you wanting for yet another chance to reach a conclusion that is simply not there. Everyone who sees Cairo Time feels as much... »
National Geographic Channel to produce comedy set in ancient Egypt
Image via Wikipedia National Geographic Channel (NGC) has commissioned two coproduction specials – a factual heist comedy set in ancient Egypt and a Tony Robinson-fronted history special about the formation of Britain. The Egyptian Job is being coproduced with French terrestrial France 5 and CGI-specialist Wide-Eyed Entertainment, and is billed as a factual comedy that will... »
Getting Real about Chasing Mummies “reality” show
I have not posted anything about Chasing Mummies so far because I find the show cheap and contrived with little to do about Egyptology. But the following excerpt from York Dispatch says it all and much better. Hawass is a very big deal in his field and a superstar in his country. And he didn’t... »
BBC TV series boosts Egypt Tourism
According to a report on South Hall Travel, more people are booking flights to Egypt, as a result of the popular TV series Tropic of Cancer, which started airing on BBC March 14, 2010. Simon Reeve, author and broadcaster, has been traveling around little-known regions of the world for a series of BBC television documentaries.... »
Exhibit and TV show about seafaring in Ancient Egypt
This month, Cairo’s Egyptian Museum will open a special exhibition, “Mersa/Wadi Gawasis: A Pharaonic Harbor on the Red Sea,’’ featuring, among other things, cargo seals, voyage accounts, and a shipping crate marked in hieroglyphic text: “Wonderful Things of Punt.’’ The journeys upon the “Great Green’’ – as one hieroglyph-inscribed tablet found at Wadi Gawasis refers... »
Still looking for volunteers for mummification TV documentary
On April of last year I posted a solicitation from a London based television company looking for terminally ill patients willing to be mummified like an ancient Egyptian after they die of course, for a scientific documentary: You have to die to play this role Here are some related news: Channel 4 seeks terminally-ill volunteer to... »
Newmarket acquires ‘Agora’
Newmarket Films will release Alejandro Amenabar’s ‘Agora’ in the U.S. in the first half of next year. Film has already grossed $30 million in Spain. It’s the first acquisition for Newmarket — best known for handling “The Passion of the Christ” — since the company was bought earlier this month by Exclusive Media Group. “Agora,” which... »
Cairo Time – Egyptian capital as alluring backdrop in a romance film
Cairo Time, by Montreal-born director Ruba Nadda and winner of the Best Canadian Feature Award at the recent Toronto International Film Festival, is an elegantly understated story of unlikely love.Apart from the splendors of Cairo, the pivot to this picture is magnificent American actress Patricia Clarkson. She is cast as Juliette, an oh-so-reserved, seemingly... »
DVD: The Pyramid Code
The Pyramid Code is a fascinating new five-part series that explores the pyramid fields and temples in Egypt and megalithic sites around the world, looking for clues to sophisticated technology in the ancient world. The series is based on the extensive research done in Egypt and around the world by Dr. Carmen Boulter of the... »
Egyptian film – Scheherazade: Tell me a Story
“Scheherazade: Tell Me a Story,” screened at the Venice film festival outside the main competition, tells the story of Hebba, a successful talk-show host whose husband urges her to steer clear of politics in order to forward his own career. As the deputy editor of a state-run newspaper in Cairo, Karim has been told by... »
