Slideshow
EDWARD SAID: THE LAST INTERVIEW
Sunday, November 2
12:30
Co-presented by the Barenboim-Said Foundation (USA), dedicated to the empowerment of young musicians from the Middle East and North Africa.
Part of the worldwide “Edward Said Days” festival, commemorating the 90th anniversary of Edward Said’s birth on November 1, 1935, with events in New York, Berlin, and Ramallah.
Post-film conversation with writer, activist, and Barenboim-Said Foundation Vice-President Mariam C. Said, wife of the late Edward Said. She will be joined by their daughter, Najla Said, author, actress, playwright and activist. Moderated by D.D. Guttenplan, special correspondent for The Nation and the host of The Nation Podcast.
NOTE: This screening is SOLD OUT.
A standby line will form at the box office 30 minutes prior to showtime.
U.K., 2004
Directed by Mike Dibb
Approx. 114 min.
“In 1991, author and critic Edward Said, one of the most persuasive advocates for the Palestinian cause, and virtually the Palestinians' cultural ambassador to the US, was diagnosed with leukemia. As he crisply remarks, most people so diagnosed either recover or die. But Said did neither, and instead survived, often in continuous pain, to write and lecture at a remarkable rate, retiring from public life a year before his death last September at the age of 67. One of his last engagements was this final, feature-length interview, conducted by the journalist Charles Glass, ranging over his life and ideas.” – Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
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Reviews
“Enthralling... touching, melancholic, and fierce.”
– Times (U.K.)
“Gripping and very affecting. Stripped of soundbites, dramatic reenactments and other conventional devices, [this] is the kind of portrait of an intellectual which is very rare.”
– Sight & Sound