Hiam Abbass

Blogs
January 19, 2013
Sundance 2013: Sex with James Franco, Sultry Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Radcliffe's Jew-Fro, and a Great Film From Jordan
In his brief remarks before the first public screening of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, Robert Redford praised the Sundance Institute's ongoing filmmaker development labs as "our core," noting that the festival itself was conceived "to create an audience for the filmmakers in our lab program."
Film+TV
March 24, 2011
Miral: Muddle East Politics
Style but little substance in Schnabel's Palestine plea
Film+TV
September 3, 2009
Movie Reviews: Amreeka, Gamer, The Headless Woman
Also, Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha and more
Film+TV
April 30, 2009
Movie Reviews: Battle for Terra, Il Divo, X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Also, Empty Nest, Newcastle and more
Blogs
January 24, 2009
Coming to Amreeka
If the U.S. dramatic competition at Sundance this year failed to yield one truly great film, it did offer up a lovely surprise in writer-director Cherien Dabis' Amreeka, which follows a Palestinian single mother and her son as they emigrate from the West Bank town of Ramallah to the flatlands of the ... More >>
Blogs
January 24, 2009
Sundance Film Festival 2009: Coming to Amreeka
If the U.S. dramatic competition at Sundance this year failed to yield one truly great film, it did offer up a lovely surprise in writer-director Cherien Dabis' Amreeka, which follows a Palestinian single mother and her son as they emigrate from the West Bank town of Ramallah to the flatlands of the ... More >>
Film+TV
April 10, 2008
The Visitor: The New McCarthyism
Different faces, same condescension from Station Agent director
Film+TV
November 30, 2006
The Passion of the Christ: The Prequel
Conception far from immaculate in Hardwicke�s Nativity
Film+TV
September 5, 2002
Venus Rising
Mad loves and awakenings in Satin Rouge and Juana la Loca