Me and the Cult Leader Review: Astonishing Doc Tracks an Impossible Connection Across an Impassable Divide Me and the Cult Leader Review: Astonishing Doc Tracks an Impossible Connection Across an Impassable Divide
A terror victim and a member of the cult responsible take a powerful journey into the painful past in this mesmerizing, achingly human doc.
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Running time: Running time: 114 MIN.
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The two men on the train are sharing a single set of earphones. “Good song, isn’t it?” says the more gregarious of the two. The quieter man smiles faintly and agrees, “It goes with the landscape.” They could be childhood friends reconnecting, or colleagues who get along despite their differences. But they are filmmaker Atsushi Sakahara, victim of the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attacks, and Hiroshi Araki, long-standing member of Aleph (formerly Aum Shinriko) the doomsday cult that carried them out. And their flicker
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Currently Reading The Life and Times of Omar Sharif to Examine How Politics Shaped the Legendary Actor s Enigmatic Persona (EXCLUSIVE)
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Captivated by the seemingly many personas of late actor Omar Sharif, Egyptian filmmaker Mark Lotfy and Swedish director Axel Petersén delved into the legendary star’s eventful career, tracing how the politics of 1950s Egypt formed the international star’s complex character.
Their new documentary, “The Life and Times of Omar Sharif,” shows in particular how the policies of President Gamal Abdel Nasser and the political climate of the time led him to change his name and convert to Islam, and later to become a cosmopolitan individual who was equally at home in Cairo, Paris or Los Angeles.