Knowingly clumsy Bollywood re-creations add significant flavor to this episodic film about an Afghan teen’s time in a Kabul orphanage just before the Soviet withdrawal. Amusing, at times poignant ...
(Columbia) Feb. 5, 2004 - A 1928 film featuring the young musicians of the Jenkins Orphanage Band playing on a Charleston street corner has been named to the National Film Registry. The eleven-minute ...
Amusing, at times poignant Bollywood re-creations are used in “The Orphanage” much as Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat mixed folklore with realism in her award-winning “Wolf and Sheep,” in both cases ...
Knowingly clumsy Bollywood re-creations add significant flavor to this episodic film about an Afghan teen’s time in a Kabul orphanage just before the Soviet withdrawal. Amusing, at times poignant ...