Notes from Dr. Borkosky

Rock the Kasbah carries a dedication to Setara Hussainzada, who did come out from under her hijab in her final performance on Afghan Star, but the Pashtun contestant that year was another female, Lema Sahar. Should Spotify Be Responsible for What Joe Rogan Does? With shades of his Saturday Night Live lounge singer Nick Winters, Murray gets to bust out his own musical chops and go Deep Purple with an over-the-top, out-of-tune sitar version of Smoke on the Water in front of some dumbfounded Afghan guys. (It's dedicated to Setara Hussainzada, who endured death threats after singing on the television show "Afghan Star.") I guess it’s a gesture towards conciliation between lifestyles that instead of singing sizzling pop songs, Salima performs two gentle numbers (“Wild World” and “Peace Train”) by the famous convert Yusuf Islam, once known as Cat Stevens. Leem Lubany is an actress, known for Omar (2013), Condor (2018) and Baghdad Central (2020). Except that 30 years on, his deadpan-hipster stylings seem as moldy as the word hipster. However, Lubany shines above the A-listers in her supporting role as the shy but committed Salima, a girl who’s obsessed with Stevens and Jimmy Cliff, though it’s never explained why. But we aren’t. The central government in Kabul is desperately corrupt, propped up only by American arms and CIA cash; the brutal and bloody Taliban controls much of the country, as if we had never been there at all, and systematically denies rights to women, non-Muslims, gays and others – in accord with what Rock the Kasbah and David Edelstein don’t dare mention: Sharia. This appears in the November 02, 2015 issue of TIME. Bill Murray in "Rock the Kasbah." As if Peace Train could rock the Casbah! Did Beyoncé Herself Commission Tabria Majors’s Halloween Masterpiece? Please let us know if you're having issues with commenting. You\'ll receive the next newsletter in your inbox. You leave thinking, The sharif isn’t the only one who won’t like it. untalented rubes willing to hand him a check for services unrendered. That’s both a saving grace and a curse. Where is social justice in today’s Afghanistan? Marking does a wonderful job of splicing political facts in among footage following four exuberant final contestants, Setara, Rafi, Hameed, and Lema, who range from ages 19 to 25. As if Peace Train could rock the Casbah! We thought the shareef wouldn’t like it, but that mostly he’d just froth like Dean Wormer instead of cutting off heads. Sign up to receive the top stories you need to know now on politics, health and more, © 2020 TIME USA, LLC. Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. Secular culture has returned? Don’t expect this spineless film to elucidate that. Except secular culture did not return. All rights reserved. West has now apparently conceded his campaign on Twitter. Bill Murray, the star of a new Netflix special, has never watched Netflix. But a lot of the actor’s usual mercurial charm isn’t used to full effect and is actually tempered when it doesn’t feel like it should be. Its music-industry gags sit awkwardly next to war-zone jokes and cultural quips, landing all involved on a peace train to nowhere. ... (The movie is inspired by the story of Setara Hussainzada… We thought the shareef wouldn’t like it, but that mostly he’d just froth like Dean Wormer instead of cutting off heads.”, But it doesn’t play now the way it did back then precisely because of the refusal of films like Rock the Kasbah and reviewers like David Edelstein to address the motive behind this maniacal savagery. Hey Upper East Siders, Karena Evans Is Directing HBO Max’s. Ever. It appears that you are trying to access our website from a location in the European Union, which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Not much of director Barry Levinson’s comedy (** out of four; rated R; opens Friday nationwide) actually rocks, even with a talent-laden supporting cast and a plot that uses the culture and society of war-torn Afghanistan as the setting for a timely fish-out-of-water story. Sharia. Follow her on Twitter here. You feel sorry for Levinson, too, and maybe for yourself if you were alive when Murray became the epicenter of cool and when Robin Williams in Levinson’s Good Morning, Vietnam made gonzo look like a humanitarian export. © 2020 Vox Media, LLC. Rock the Kasbah doesn’t take full advantage of star Bill Murray, though at least it makes good use of the Cat Stevens song catalog. “Gung-ho hedonism and murderous fundamentalism.” Notice how the writer equates the two, as if they were morally equivalent and of a piece. Because while Murray and his laid-back riffs anchor this oil spill of a story, he needs a more tangible movie to latch onto, and all he gets is a mirage.

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