Archive for the ‘Movies’ Category

Monday is off !

Friday, November 20th, 2009

This is the least i expect after what the Army & ISF did today. (Official Transcript)

The army is celebrating Independance day on Sunday and will be parading in front of the 3 presidents and high officials. For that purpose, they decided to close main roads leading to Beirut on a Friday busy morning and cause a huge traffic all over the country.

And then they wonder how no one respects the army or ISF in this country.
How hard is it to rehearse at 3 am instead of 6am and avoid people 2 hours of traffic and frustration.

To make things even worse, the ISF issued a P.R around 9:30 asking people not to head to Beirut except for urgent matters.
قوى الامن تطلب من المواطنين عدم التوجه الى بيروت إلا في حالات الضرورة القصوى

WTF ?
As if the Lebanese are known for to wake up early in the morning, drive all the way to Beirut just for fun then go back home.

Maskhara …

The Butt Bomb

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Who said Arabs aren’t creative ?

Hezbollah violating U.N Resolution 1701

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

بقلوبكن عم نكبر تيصير لبنان كلو قوات

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Done by Y.

Anwar Malek on Arabs …

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Video suggested by M

Amin Gemayel to nharkoun sa3id (2009-07-03)

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

VIDEO

Samir Geagea conference (2009-07-02)

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

How Hezbollah invaded Beirut …

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

The day Hezbollah showed its true face, and proved to all Lebanese that it was nothing more than a terrorist militia and a group of thugs …

Muslim Demographics

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Interesting movie …

Sex, censorship and videotape

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

HELP! was pasted all over Beirut in February on bright blue posters advertising the new Lebanese film addressing sex, prostitution, drugs and homelessness. But anticipation for the movie, which cost over $200,000 to make, came to nothing. The film’s directors told NOW that the Censorship Department in the General Security withdrew permission for a planned screening on February 16.

Legislation for film-making here is notoriously difficult, with directors having to submit an outline of the film to censors before beginning shooting, and then submit the finished product to the censors again. The directors of Help, however, say that they had jumped through all the bureaucratic hoops and were granted in July last year a license for screenings in February by General Security’s Supervisory Department.

So why was the film banned? Writer and director Mark Abi Rached said, “the product has not changed,” but the officer in charge of censorship has. Producer Bacchus Elwan told Al-Arabiya that, “the movie was banned because the officer in charge of censorship was replaced and he didn’t like it…he hasn’t seen the movie though.” And the organization Skeyes, the Center for Defending Media and Cultural Freedoms founded in memory of assassinated journalist Samir Kassir, suggested that a Catholic organization influenced the decision to ban the film.

The case highlights once more Lebanon’s rigid rules on politics, sex and religion in the media, which figures like Interior Minister Ziad Baroud and Culture Minister Tammam Salam have worked to reduce.

More from NOWlebanon

When are we going to stop this dictorship-like method of censoring everyhting a la Syrian Regime?  What is this retarted way of censoring where a movie is either cleared for everyone to view or it can’t be viewed by anyone?

Al some religious figures asked that some parts of the movie be deleted.  Leh choo khassoun henne?  No one is making you watch this movies!  If you don’t like it or think it goes against your beliefs, then ignore it.  But you can’t tell others what they can and can’t watch.  The greatest movies ever produced are R-rated and have love scenes and violent content!

How do you expect this director, who probably worked day and night to make a decent movie, to stay in the country now?  This guy is going to pack his bags and leave to somewhere he can air his movies.  And they say that they’re trying to stop the youth from immigrating…

Hamas persecuting Christians in Gaza

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

Rockets fired into Israel

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Update: I edited the title and removed Hezbollah since it turned out they werent the ones who launched them.

Rockets were launched few minutes ago from south Lebanon.

Nonetheless, even if it turned out not to be Hezbollah, Jebha el Cha3biyya for example who did not deny nor approve their involvment, i ask you:

- Can any group launch rockets from the South without HA’s permission ?

- Can any pro-Syrian group launch rockets without HA knowing ?

If both cases are correct, then HA is unable to hold the South and must disarm correct ?

Of course now some readers will start referring to Israel to prove that HA wasnt the one firing ..

It is Hezbollah who is responsible for any upcoming war with Israel whether you like it or not .. this is a fact.

Waltz with Bashir

Sunday, January 4th, 2009


[YouTube]

This looks like an interesting movie.

Taken from the official movie website:

One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of beasts. The two men conclude that there’s a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. Ari is surprised that he can’t remember a thing anymore about that period of his life. Intrigued by this riddle, he decides to meet and interview old friends and comrades around the world. He needs to discover the truth about that time and about himself. As Ari delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, his memory begins to creep up in surreal images.

Here is a link to the official website. [Link]

The film takes its title from a scene in which one of the interviewees, the commander of Folman’s infantry unit at the time of the film’s events, grabs a heavy machine gun and “dances an insane waltz” amid heavy enemy fire, between walls hung with posters of Bashir Gemayel. – Wikipedia

Update: Here is another more interesting clip from the movie


[YouTube]

Update2:
N10452 posted about it ages ago but I must have missed it. Here is his original post. [Link]

Mothers still waiting ..

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Aoun on Hezbollah

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Am speechless !

Akram Sh’hayeb & Israelis

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Interesting video .. Never mind the propagandist titles, but it was suggested by a friend and i thought i share it.

Irak : les chrétiens persécutés

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Watch documentary here: http://www.france5.fr/c-dans-l-air/index-fr.php?page=resume&id_article=2624 

En ces fêtes de Pâques, le mot “paix” est décliné dans toutes les langues. Par les fidèles des Eglises chrétiennes occidentales qui ont célébré la résurrection, par les dizaines de milliers de marcheurs qui depuis vendredi sillonnent l’Europe du Nord mais aussi par les chrétiens d’Irak, dont la survie est menacée dans un pays ensanglanté quotidiennement. 

Depuis la chute du régime de Saddãm Hussein et la montée en puissance des mouvements islamistes, la communauté chrétienne d’Irak est victime d’une véritable hémorragie. Cela a commencé à Bassorah, où nombre de chrétiens chaldéens s’étaient installés pour ouvrir divers commerces, et en particulier des magasins vendant de l’alcool. On comptait quelque 500 familles au début des années 70.

Victimes d’attentats, ils ont tous fui, presque immédiatement après la chute du raïs. Cela a continué à Bagdad et à Mossoul, où l’implantation catholique remonta au premier siècle de l’ère chrétienne. Pendant près d’un an, les membres de cette Eglise ne se sont pas sentis visés pour leur croyance mais d’être victimes, comme les autres Irakiens, de l’anarchie et de l’insécurité générales. Puis, les enlèvements et les meurtres se sont multipliés et ont bouleversé la communauté qui jusqu’alors ne se croyait pas menacés par les islamistes dans ces deux villes.

Le 13 mars 2008, la découverte du corps de Mgr Rahho, évêque de Mossoul, qui avait été enlevé le 29 février à la sortie de la messe, provoque l’émotion de l”ensemble du monde chrétien. Cette mort représente un symbole du martyre enduré par les Chaldéens, menacés depuis cinq ans par les islamistes, qui reprochent à la très ancienne communauté chrétienne de Mésopotamie d’être complice des Américains.

“Des gens sont menacés, kidnappés, tués en pleine semaine sainte !”, s’insurge l’archevêque chaldéen de Kirkouk, Luis Sako. Des actes qui poussent beaucoup à se poser chaque jour la question de l’exil.

Face aux persécutions, les responsables chrétiens irakiens estiment que 75 000 croyants ont quitté le pays pour la Syrie, la Jordanie ou l’Occident. 75 000 autres auraient fui vers le nord de l’Irak, au Kurdistan irakien, où la liberté religieuse est plus grande. Mais arrivés nombreux avec, pour seul bien, les habits qu’ils portaient sur eux au moment de leur fuite, leur intégration pourrait se révéler difficile.

Depuis le début de l’invasion américaine en 2003, au moins 2 millions d’Irakiens ont fui le pays et on estime qu’il reste aujourd’hui moins de 400 000 chrétiens en Irak. Ils étaient au nombre de 636 000 environ en 2005 et encore un million en 1980, car, paradoxe de l’histoire, Saddãm Hussein leur ménageait une relative tranquillité.

Depuis six mois, la multiplication des initiatives a permis d’amorcer un début de prise de conscience des chrétiens de France en faveur de leurs frères d’Orient. Au nom du mouvement Pax Christi, l’évêque de Troyes, Mgr Marc Stenger, qui s’était rendu en Irak en février, a à son retour plaidé pour accueil en Europe des croyants irakiens qui se sont enfuis de leur pays.

Un projet formulé par le ministre des Affaires étrangères Bernard Kouchner en décembre 2007. ”Nous allons, j’espère, en accueillir près de 500 dans les semaines qui viennent et on verra après”, a-t-il déclaré le 19 mars 2008, lors d’un entretien sur RMC et BFM-TVM, en ajoutant que “nous ne refuserons pas d’accueillir des musulmans” mais “le problème, c’est que personne n’accueillait les chrétiens”.

Accueilli avec soulagement par la communauté chaldéenne de France, forte de 15 000 membres environ, vivant majoritairement en région parisienne, cette annonce a suscité quelques réserves. Pierre Henry, directeur de France Terre d’Asile, avait accusé, mardi 18 mars, dans un entretien à l’AFP, le gouvernement de vouloir faire une “opération de communication” en faisant venir ces chaldéens irakiens aux alentours du début de la présidence française de l’Union européenne, qui commence le 1er juillet 2008.

Uprise in Syria at the University of Aleppo by the NSF

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Not sure how much of an uprise this is … just some masked guy putting flyers everywhere in an empty uni, but still its interesting to watch

HA supporters celebrate with RPGs

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Another “civilized” aspect of HA.

Great Speech by Majida el Roumi

Monday, December 10th, 2007

Majida Biel 2007

You can find the transcript of her speech translated in English here