Films/TV
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... »
Discovery World celebrates Egypt
Image by khalid almasoud via Flickr This September, Discovery World hosts Egypt Season in all its ancient glory. Out Of Egypt – Dr. Kara Cooney travels the globe and presents a new approach to unravelling some perplexing mysteries at the root of the world’s oldest civilizations. Follow as she explores remarkable archaeological sites, interacts with... »
Discovery Channel digs 'Egypt' series
Discovery Channel is giving world civilization series “Out of Egypt” a six-episode run over three Mondays beginning Aug. 17 and airing back-to-back episodes at 9 and 10 p.m. “Egypt” was co-created by archeologist and UCLA professor Kara Cooney with her husband, Neil Crawford. Cooney hosts and serves as lead researcher and writer for the show,... »
Alejandro Amenabar comments on "Agora"
Amenabar’s historical epic “Agora” premiered Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival, introducing audiences to the little-known scholar Hypatia, a brilliant astronomer and mathematician working in a man’s world in 4th century A.D. Egypt. It’s a relationship between a master and a slave. That’s interesting on a personal level, but also a political and social level,... »
