Youssef Chahine Podcast

A journey through the work of legendary Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine

On Spotify and iTunes

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The book is available here ...

https://t.co/WeBwSchJjX

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New book "World Socialist Cinema" by Masha Salazkina includes a fascinating discussion of Chahine's "Un Jour, le Nil", and cites our discussion on the two versions which we are very pleased was helpful.

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Chahine's DAWN OF A NEW DAY is on today @BFI and it's one of his best: a popular melodrama about love which is also a commentary on the state of the nation and its future. We podcast on it here: https://t.co/nWmDbJZtV4

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The Sparrow is on today @BFI. A dense and rich political film with extraordinary mise-en-scène that begins with an open letter to the Egyptian people and ends with Nasser informing Egypt of the loss of the Six Day War with Israel https://t.co/8wkHxqCJY9

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@paranoidstylist Great to hear you're finding them so useful! And as you write for DWM you are the ideal audience for our discussion of the Doctor Who story on The Crusades in the context of Chahine's Saladin!

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Delighted to read in the new @BFI programme that a #YoussefChahine retrospective is coming to BFI Southbank in July.

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Saying hello to @ChahinePodcast from Cairo Station, the Iron Gate itself...

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The film is a gripping political melodrama, which draws together the various strands of Chahine's career while prefiguring events in Egypt a few years later.

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After 18 months (!) we reach Youssef Chahine's last film, "Chaos" (2007). (co-directed with Khaled Youssef).

https://t.co/mtn7pzFGhi

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and finally Chanine's contribution to 11"09'01 - September 11 which was very badly received at the time but viewed now is a balanced and nuanced argument, and also an addition to Chahine's reflexive autobiographical films

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In a new #YoussefChahine podcast we discuss 4 shorts by Chahine as contributions to portmanteau films - all are excellent and taken together give a great overview of Chahine's work in under 20 minutes.

https://t.co/lfKeJsCQro

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Chacun son Cinema - 47 ans après in which Chahine yet again revisits his disappointment at the Cannes Film Festival with "Son of the Nile" and contrasts it with his later acclaim

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Continuing our look at Youssef Chahine's film recommendations - we discuss Ousmane Sembène's "Mandabi" (1968), currently on @mubi in a great restoration, which first came to our attention thanks to a screening at the @UPPCinema
https://t.co/MbvgivSBE2

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It's fascinating to compare to Chahine's early work (eg Papa Amin) to which it is in some ways superior. A great restoration of the film (with slightly eccentric subtitles) is available on iTunes.

https://t.co/9o1PFMQ6i0

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We discuss another of the films recommended by #YoussefChahine in his 1978 interview, The Will (El Azima) by Kamal Selim, often voted the greatest Egyptian film of all time. We very much enjoyed this melodrama, and its depiction of a way of life.

https://t.co/rYWWpEHOQa

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Omar Gatlato is a study of masculinity and the self-harm caused by a culture of machismo, a document of Algiers and Algerian popular culture in that period, an experiment in film form, and well worth seeking out.

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Continuing to explore the context around Youssef Chahine's work we discuss Omar Gatlatlo (Merzak Allouache, 1976), one of the films Chahine recommends in the interview recently made available by @mubi and @EhsanKhoshbakht

https://t.co/uJcG7f2VwI

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Youssef Chahine's "The Return of the Prodigal Son" is now on @mubiuk - here's our discussion of the film - "A teen musical à la Tennesse Williams with Shakespearean overtones and a blood wedding that would put both Lorca and Game of Thrones to shame."

https://t.co/RN1sLjWs4n"