Year: 2005

  • Diplomatic Mission

    Indian Express/Arts Etc By Sanjukta Sharma Albert Brooks samples Muslim laughter from Delhi streets in his new film. YOU’VE seen him in Martin Scorcese’s Taxi Driver. In The Ed Sullivan Show, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and in The Muse, where Sharon Stone played the title role. Twenty-six years after comedian Albert Brooks played…

  • American comedy in Dubai

    Guardian Unlimited Middle Eastern settings are unsurprisingly writ large over the lineup of the second Dubai Film Festival this weekend. The Film festival, which has livened up the Gulf city’s cultural life, is seen as a venue for new filmmakers to present their often quite challenging fare to audiences of considerable ethic diversity. Top of…

  • Comedy in the Muslim world?

    Rediff India Abroad By Arthur J Pais The script called for a shot of the exterior of the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi but writer, actor and filmmaker Albert Brooks, who says he had received ‘unprecedented access to mosques, temples and monuments,’ quickly discovered that his list did not include the embassy. Brooks’s film,…

  • Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

    Townhall.com By John Stossel Sony Pictures got upset about a “bad” word. They demanded it be taken out of the title of a movie. The word is “Muslim.” Give me a break. Do we have to be that sensitive? Or fearful? The movie is “Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World.” The writer and star…

  • Funny choices

    Los Angeles Times Calendarlive.com By Patrick Goldstein Something’s wrong when a studio balks at a comedy this inspired. In the days after the calamitous 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, there was a brief flurry of soul-searching in Hollywood, focusing in part on how much of a role our movies played in stirring Muslim rage against…

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