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Article: Control Room.(Movie Review)
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- September 22, 2004
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Control Room Produced by Rosadel Varela and Hani Salama; directed by Jehane Noujaim; cinematography by Noujaim and Hani Salama; edited by Julia Bacha, Lilah Bankier and Cahrlie Marquardt; in Arabic and English with English subtitles. Color, 86 mins. A Magnolia Pictures Release, www.magpictures.com.
Given the current state of global media, Control Room is an undeniably important film, albeit not perhaps for the reasons stated by critics, pundits, and director Jehane Noujaim herself. Widely hailed as a lucid and 'balanced' treatment of the Arab television network Al Jazeera, Noujaim's second feature--Startup.com (2001), codirected with Chris Hegedus, examined the ...