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Persepolis Broadcast: Tunisian Television Station President Apologizes to Offended Muslims

11 October 2011 10:42 AM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »

Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis Three days ago a group of 200 Fundamentalist Muslims protested outside the headquarters of a television station in Tunis for showing Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi's Academy Award-nominated animated feature Persepolis. What irked the crowd was that Persepolis features an image of God, while Islam forbids all such depictions. "Arab Spring" or no, Nessma TV Nebil Karoui has apologized for the broadcast, saying "I believe that to have broadcast this sequence was a mistake. We never had the intention of attacking sacred values." Of course, whether the vast majority of Tunisians gives a damn whenever God is portrayed in a film is something else altogether. In fact, after apologizing Karoui himself added he "never imagined that this would elicit such an outcry. This film has already been shown in its entirety in several cinemas in Tunisia and never elicited such agitation." But Tunisia »

- Andre Soares

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Ryan Reynolds Escapes Two "Buried" Indies, Samuel Fuller Freakouts and More New DVDs

17 January 2011 8:43 PM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

A look at what's new on DVD today:

"Buried"

Directed by Rodrigo Cortes

Released by Lionsgate

"Paper Man"

Directed by Kieran and Michele Mulroney

Released by Mpi Home Video

While one can't feel too badly for the future "Green Lantern" star and People's sexiest man alive, Ryan Reynolds' two stabs at glory outside the beaten path went largely unseen, which is particularly a shame in the case of Rodrigo Cortes' "Buried," the thriller where Reynolds has no acting partner but a cell phone as a military contractor who finds himself trapped in a coffin with no knowledge of how or why he got there. A success at Sundance, Lionsgate scrapped expansion plans for the film when it didn't do well in limited release, so home video will be the first chance for many to catch it. Still, that was a considerably bigger success than "Paper Man," which snuck in »

- Stephen Saito

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