Alexandria... Why? (Iskanderija... lih?) (1980)

“(OK) Chaine is disorderly choral, but never forgets his young histrionic hero in the chaos of a country that fears a nazi invation when its already invaded by british” read more

ALL-TIME 100 Revisited (20 movies items)

"For decades, at film festivals, Egyptian director Youssef Chahine (1926–2008) was the prime representative of an entire continent, Africa, and a world religion, Islam — though his family was Christian and his ancestors came from Greece and Lebanon. Both a nationalist and an internationalist, Chahine loved Hollywood movies (as a young man he studied acting at the Pasadena Playhouse) and learned as much from their robust pace as he did from the gritty humanism of Italian neorealist films and t"