Filmmakers take risk with 'Kite Runner'
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"The Kite Runner" filmmakers strove for authenticity when they shot the adaptation of the best-selling novel, featuring a largely unknown cast of actors and having some dialogue in Dari (an Afghan language).
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It has happened so many times before. Avant-garde directors who start off with committed actors suddenly start bothering about commercial considerations and change loyalties.
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Eighteen months after the  outbreak of Israel's war with Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon,  filmmakers from both countries have brought movies conveying  frustration over the conflict to the Sundance Film Festival.
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Three young indie filmmakers have shown promise with strong, idiosyncratic debuts. Flouting conventions, however, may not be so easy on the road ahead.
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The Afghan government has banned "The Kite Runner" film from theaters and DVD shops, an official said Wednesday, though Afghan shop owners with stalls at U.S. military bases are still selling the movie there.
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Boiling the complexities of the Middle  East down into a 106-minute film about a Palestinian woman's  lemon trees and tensions arising when Israel's defense minister  moves next door risk over-simplifying the issues.
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Ariel Schulman is making a film about sex, violence, racism, teenage angst and also ballet, which to some sounds much more intimidating.
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It's happened yet again - there seems to be a virtual race to attempt/remake/Indianize the same subject by different producers.
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Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh received death threats after a recent movie criticized the way women are treated under Islam. Yesterday, the threats became reality.
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The plans by far-right MP Geert Wilders to make a film that he says will show the Koran is "an inspiration for murder" has caused unease in the Netherlands which fears violent repercussions.
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Counter-terrorism alert as a Dutch right-winger launches a movie that will denounce the Koran
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The Oliver Stone film 'World Trade Center' shows just how remiss Hollywood has been in dramatizing the war on terror
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A Palestinian suicide bomber is the unlikely star of a new Israeli film billed by its director as an effort to destroy prejudices that fuel conflict in the Middle East.
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Salman Khan's new film may work only because of him.
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After Khel, which he directed for Suniel Shetty three years ago, thereÂs plenty of  ÂconfusionÂ in director Yusuf KhanÂs mind and life. And why not? ThatÂs the title of YusufÂs next film.
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Some intrepid journalists put their lives in danger to file reports from war zones but it is a rare reporter who actually volunteers to be shot.
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Hollywood directors risk big budgets and  reputations when they work. Iraqi film makers risk their lives.