A call to action, the short story goes... In the 1980s, a generation of artists used their creativity to respond to the reactionary politics that came to define the culture at the time. In director Antonino D Ambrosio's Let Fury Have The Hour, over 50 notable musicians, artists, and thinkers are brought together to trace a social history from the cynical heydays of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, to today, ultimately imparting a message of hope. The indie documentary, which includes commentary from the likes of Chuck D, Van Jones, Suheir Hammad, John Sayles, and more than 50 others, will see a limited USA theatrical release starting this Friday, December 14,...
- 12/12/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Antonino D’Ambrosio's Let Fury Have the Hour documentary adds new poster Cavu Pictures release opens in New York on December 14th, and expands to Los Angeles on January 24th The film includes Eve Ensler, Lewis Black, John Sayles, Shepard Fairey, Chuck D, Van Jones, Tom Morello, Wayne Kramer, Billy Bragg, Ian MacKaye, D.J. Spooky, Hari Kunzru, Tommy Guerrero, Edwidge Danticat and Suheir Hammad. Rough, raw and unapologetically inspirational, Let Fury Have the Hour is a charged journey into the heart of the creative counter-culture in 2012. In a time of global challenges, big questions and by-the-numbers politics, this upbeat, outspoken film tracks the story of the artists, writers, thinkers and musicians who have gone underground to re-imagine the world – honing in on equality, community and engaged creativity – in exuberantly paradigm-busting ways.
- 11/30/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Antonino D’Ambrosio's Let Fury Have the Hour documentary adds new poster Cavu Pictures release opens in New York on December 14th, and expands to Los Angeles on January 24th The film includes Eve Ensler, Lewis Black, John Sayles, Shepard Fairey, Chuck D, Van Jones, Tom Morello, Wayne Kramer, Billy Bragg, Ian MacKaye, D.J. Spooky, Hari Kunzru, Tommy Guerrero, Edwidge Danticat and Suheir Hammad. Rough, raw and unapologetically inspirational, Let Fury Have the Hour is a charged journey into the heart of the creative counter-culture in 2012. In a time of global challenges, big questions and by-the-numbers politics, this upbeat, outspoken film tracks the story of the artists, writers, thinkers and musicians who have gone underground to re-imagine the world – honing in on equality, community and engaged creativity – in exuberantly paradigm-busting ways.
- 11/30/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Cavu Pictures have released the first trailer for Antonino D’Ambrosio's "Let Fury Have the Hour" documentary which includes Eve Ensler, Lewis Black, John Sayles and Shepard Fairey. The film opens in New York on December 14th, followed by a Los Angeles release date of January 25th and more cities to be announced. D'Ambrosio directs and writes the documentary which also has Chuck D, Van Jones, Tom Morello, Wayne Kramer, Billy Bragg, Ian MacKaye, D.J. Spooky, Hari Kunzru, Tommy Guerrero, Edwidge Danticat and Suheir Hammad. Rough, raw and unapologetically inspirational, Let Fury Have the Hour is a charged journey into the heart of the creative counter-culture in 2012. In a time of global challenges, big questions and by-the-numbers politics, this upbeat, outspoken film tracks the story of the artists, writers, thinkers and musicians who have gone underground to re-imagine the world – honing in on equality, community and engaged creativity – in exuberantly paradigm-busting ways.
- 11/28/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Cavu Pictures have released the first trailer for Antonino D’Ambrosio's "Let Fury Have the Hour" documentary which includes Eve Ensler, Lewis Black, John Sayles and Shepard Fairey. The film opens in New York on December 14th, followed by a Los Angeles release date of January 25th and more cities to be announced. D'Ambrosio directs and writes the documentary which also has Chuck D, Van Jones, Tom Morello, Wayne Kramer, Billy Bragg, Ian MacKaye, D.J. Spooky, Hari Kunzru, Tommy Guerrero, Edwidge Danticat and Suheir Hammad. Rough, raw and unapologetically inspirational, Let Fury Have the Hour is a charged journey into the heart of the creative counter-culture in 2012. In a time of global challenges, big questions and by-the-numbers politics, this upbeat, outspoken film tracks the story of the artists, writers, thinkers and musicians who have gone underground to re-imagine the world – honing in on equality, community and engaged creativity – in exuberantly paradigm-busting ways.
- 11/28/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
A call to action, the short story goes... In the 1980s, a generation of artists used their creativity to respond to the reactionary politics that came to define the culture at the time. In director Antonino D Ambrosio's Let Fury Have The Hour, over 50 notable musicians, artists, and thinkers are brought together to trace a social history from the cynical heydays of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, to today, ultimately imparting a message of hope. The indie documentary, which includes commentary from the likes of Chuck D, Van Jones, Suheir Hammad, John Sayles, and more than 50 others, will see a limited USA theatrical release starting on December 14. When I know what...
- 11/27/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Too much of the same thing torpedoes this potent essay on human rights in Israeli occupied Palestine. Suheir Hammad plays Soraya, an American returning to her Palestinian roots, in this film of love, loss and desperation by Palestinian director/writer Annemarie Jacir. Hammad was born in Jordan in the Hussein refugee camp and her family immigrated to New York City when she was five years old. This background makes her a perfect choice for her part in this film, the role of a disenfranchised granddaughter of a man whose land and money were swept away in the Israeli occupation of Palestine near her ancestral home of Jaffa. Hammad won a Tony award for her performance on HBO.s .Russell Simmons Presents...
- 9/3/2010
- by Ron Wilkinson
- Monsters and Critics
Director: Annemarie Jacir Writer: Annemarie Jacir Starring: Suheir Hammad, Saleh Bakri, Riyad Ideis Born in Brooklyn, Soraya (Suheir Hammad) travels to Palestine to collect her deceased grandfather’s bank account and visit Jaffa where her grandparents were exiled from in 1948. Salt of this Sea opens with Soraya’s arrival to her grandparents’ homeland and the harsh and suspicious realities that she encounters with the Israeli guards at airport customs because of her Palestinian ancestry. After relentless questioning and a strip search, Soraya is permitted to enter. Soraya hits several other literal and figurative roadblocks. Because she has an Arab name and holds a U.S. passport, as well as her apparent frustration every time her travels are hindered, Soraya is treated like a criminal. After being informed by her grandfather’s bank that his money was “lost” (stolen by Israel) during the 1948 war, Soraya’s anger and frustration with the...
- 8/13/2010
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
“Salt of This Sea” is the story of a woman without a country ... and I mean that quite literally. Soraya (Suheir Hammad), a Palestinian raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., returns to her homeland to reclaim a small sum of money left behind by her deceased grandfather, a post-World War II refugee from Jaffa.
But Soraya soon finds that she’s the one who is treated like a refugee — a stranger in a strange land, where bridges and borders have given way to stone and barbed wire and the sea is a distant dream; where everyone is a prisoner, whether they realize it or not.
At almost every turn, Soraya is forced to lie about who and what she is. She is given the third degree at customs, check points, banks and bodegas … anywhere she tries to go. It isn’t until 40 minutes into the film that someone actually welcomes Soraya back to her homeland.
But Soraya soon finds that she’s the one who is treated like a refugee — a stranger in a strange land, where bridges and borders have given way to stone and barbed wire and the sea is a distant dream; where everyone is a prisoner, whether they realize it or not.
At almost every turn, Soraya is forced to lie about who and what she is. She is given the third degree at customs, check points, banks and bodegas … anywhere she tries to go. It isn’t until 40 minutes into the film that someone actually welcomes Soraya back to her homeland.
- 8/12/2010
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Annemarie Jacir's award-winning directorial debut, Salt of This Sea (Tff 2009), represents a fresh, viscerally affecting, and definitive statement from second-generation Palestinian Americans. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Soraya (spoken-word artist Suheir Hammad) travels to Palestine to retrieve her grandfather's savings, frozen in a Jaffa bank account after his 1948 exile. Struggling to feel at home in the land of her ancestors, she meets Emad (Saleh Bakri), a young Palestinian whose ambition, contrary to hers, is to leave forever. When confronted with unwieldy official policies that deny her access to the fruit of her grandfather's life's work, she must take things into their own hands, even if it's illegal. Stubborn, passionate, and determined to reclaim what's theirs, she and Emad set out on a road trip ...
- 8/11/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
Lorber Films has picked up rights to distribute "Salt of the Sea" on U.S. soil. The film is set in Palestine and tells of Soraja (Suheir Hammad), a Brooklyn-born woman of Palestinian origin who comes to Israel in search of the ancestral home near Jaffa from where her grandparents were ejected some sixty years prior. She realizes that claiming what is hers and her dream of returning to Palestine is obstructed at every turn. The film was produced by Danny Glover and was shot in English and Arabic. Helmed by first-time director Annemarie Jacir, drama will have its U.S. theatrical debut on August 13th at the Quad Cinemas of New York. DVD and digital distributionis set for early 2011.
- 7/8/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Lorber Films has picked up all U.S. rights to "Salt of the Sea," a feature set in Palestine by first-time director Annemarie Jacir. The deal was negotiated by Richard Lorber, co-president and CEO of Lorber Films, and nm2937149 autoYoann Ubermulhin[/link] of Pyramide International. The film will have its U.S. theatrical premiere on Aug. 13 at New York's Quad Cinemas, followed by engagements in select cities, with DVD and digital distribution to follow in early 2011. No financial details were available.
Pic centers on Soraya (Suheir Hammad), a Brooklyn-born woman of Palestinian lineage who comes to Israel to search for the ancestral home near Jaffa from where her grandparents were ejected 60 years ago. Once she arrives, reality strikes hard and her mission to claim what is hers and fulfill her dream to "return" to Palestine is obstructed at every turn. Shot in English and Arabic, the film was produced by Danny Glover.
Pic centers on Soraya (Suheir Hammad), a Brooklyn-born woman of Palestinian lineage who comes to Israel to search for the ancestral home near Jaffa from where her grandparents were ejected 60 years ago. Once she arrives, reality strikes hard and her mission to claim what is hers and fulfill her dream to "return" to Palestine is obstructed at every turn. Shot in English and Arabic, the film was produced by Danny Glover.
- 7/7/2010
- by By Elizabeth Guider
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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• Blank City, directed by Celine Danhier. (USA) - World Premiere, Documentary. Celine Danhier’s kinetic doc mirrors the urgent, anything-goes energy of her subject: the Diy independent film movement that emerged in tandem with punk rock in late ‘70s downtown New York.
Encounters
This collection of engaging and entertaining narrative features and documentaries, a mixture of dark comedies and lighter fare, offers work from returning filmmakers, established talent, and popular subjects, and includes 10 World Premieres. Included in Encounters are performances from Academy Award®-nominated actors Thomas Haden Church, Melissa Leo, Elisabeth Shue; directorial debuts from both Eric Bana and Cheryl Hines (from a screenplay by Adrienne Shelly); stories ranging from an ill-fated man's discovery of inspiration and happiness, dysfunctional families, and unrequited high school crushes to a doc on the emergence of New York’s independent film scene.
• Blank City, directed by Celine Danhier. (USA) - World Premiere, Documentary. Celine Danhier’s kinetic doc mirrors the urgent, anything-goes energy of her subject: the Diy independent film movement that emerged in tandem with punk rock in late ‘70s downtown New York.
- 3/11/2009
- QuietEarth.us
Film Review: Salt of This Sea, Cannes, Un Certain Regard
Boldly grabbing hold of the central issue at the heart of the Israel-Palestine conflict -- namely, whose land it is that is being contended by both sides -- “Salt of This Sea” will certainly make people talk, even while it fails to fully involve them in its artificial drama.
Making her first feature film, Palestinian Annemarie Jacir shows she is a courageous director able to articulate Palestinian pain and longing to return to the land of their ancestors. But the drama of a Brooklyn-born waitress who naively travels to Ramallah and Israeli-occupied Jaffa to live in “her homeland” is depressingly one-note, a story that never springs to life.
Arriving at Tel Aviv airport, the American Soraya (a fascinatingly stubborn Suheir Hammad) is hassled by the authorities for her Arab name. But bare minutes later, she has reached Ramallah, then finds an apartment and a good-looking escort Emad (Saleh Bakri, son of famed actor Mohammed Bakri).
Since they won’t give her back her grandfather’s savings, lost in 1948 when the family was forced into Lebanon, she simply robs a bank with Emad and pal Marwan (Riyad Ideis). Then everybody slips through a checkpoint back into Israel, without passports, disguised as Jews.
Viewers still with the film at this point can savor the shock of the film’s crucial scene, when Suheir is hosted by the current renter of her family home in Jaffa, a disarmingly liberal Israeli girl. “We had lives here. We were robbed, ” Suheir tells the girl, who naturally has no reply.
Cast: Suheir Hammad, Saleh Bakri, Riyad Ideis. Director: Annemarie Jacir. Screenwriters: Annemarie Jacir. Producers: Jacques Bidou, Marianne Dumoulin. Director of photography: Benoit Chamaillard. Production designer: Francoise Joset. Music: Kamran Rastegar. Sound: Eric Vaucher, Peter Flamman. Editor: Michele Hubinon
Sales Agent: Pyramide International, Paris
No MPAA rating. 109 minutes.
Boldly grabbing hold of the central issue at the heart of the Israel-Palestine conflict -- namely, whose land it is that is being contended by both sides -- “Salt of This Sea” will certainly make people talk, even while it fails to fully involve them in its artificial drama.
Making her first feature film, Palestinian Annemarie Jacir shows she is a courageous director able to articulate Palestinian pain and longing to return to the land of their ancestors. But the drama of a Brooklyn-born waitress who naively travels to Ramallah and Israeli-occupied Jaffa to live in “her homeland” is depressingly one-note, a story that never springs to life.
Arriving at Tel Aviv airport, the American Soraya (a fascinatingly stubborn Suheir Hammad) is hassled by the authorities for her Arab name. But bare minutes later, she has reached Ramallah, then finds an apartment and a good-looking escort Emad (Saleh Bakri, son of famed actor Mohammed Bakri).
Since they won’t give her back her grandfather’s savings, lost in 1948 when the family was forced into Lebanon, she simply robs a bank with Emad and pal Marwan (Riyad Ideis). Then everybody slips through a checkpoint back into Israel, without passports, disguised as Jews.
Viewers still with the film at this point can savor the shock of the film’s crucial scene, when Suheir is hosted by the current renter of her family home in Jaffa, a disarmingly liberal Israeli girl. “We had lives here. We were robbed, ” Suheir tells the girl, who naturally has no reply.
Cast: Suheir Hammad, Saleh Bakri, Riyad Ideis. Director: Annemarie Jacir. Screenwriters: Annemarie Jacir. Producers: Jacques Bidou, Marianne Dumoulin. Director of photography: Benoit Chamaillard. Production designer: Francoise Joset. Music: Kamran Rastegar. Sound: Eric Vaucher, Peter Flamman. Editor: Michele Hubinon
Sales Agent: Pyramide International, Paris
No MPAA rating. 109 minutes.
- 5/18/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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