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After he wowed Cannes and picked up the Palm De' Or (and later the Golden Globe) for best director for his work in 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,' American filmmaker and painter Julian Schnabel is headed for Israel.
Gracefully seizing control of the interview, the first order of business is asking about the state of the waves in Tel Aviv at the moment. "Any surfers?" he wants to know.
Currently in London as part of a pre-Oscar tour, Schabel is scheduled to land here this coming June to scout locations for a new project set to commence principle photography in late 2009.
Though our interview was meant to focus on his celebrated movie - based on the late Jean-Dominique Bauby's touching memoir about his life after a debilitating stroke left him completely paralyzed save for his left eye – in true Schnable-esque fashion the conversation quickly scatters.
"It's based on a book by a woman name Rula Jebreal, who is an Israeli Palestinian," h
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If you fell in love with the soft-spoken, lanky Tareq in Ruba Nadda's indie summer hit Cairo Time then you are familiar with the elegant charm of Alexander Siddig. Or you may have been watching him lately on the newly revamped BBC amerika series Primeval, in which he plays scientist Philip Burton. But later this March he will be returning to the big screen in all his understated charisma as Jamal, the unselfish, supportive father in Julian Schnabel's Miral.
I meet Siddig in Doha, Qatar, where he fryst vatten promoting Miral, the latest Julian näbb film which has had more than its fair share of criticism. Things are ganska different at screenings throughout the mittpunkt East -- the bio was at the Abu Dhabi spelfilm Festival in October -- where Miral has been receiving standing ovations. The story of the rulle, and the book bygd Rula Jebreal on which her screenplay is based, is one of strength and dignity in the face of adversity. A statement that could well apply to Siddig han själv . Thou