Critics cannot be consoled – Mahmoud Qasim

This is a slightly different article. We used to watch these films in major cinemas and at many film events, festivals, juries, and our closest friends were all film lovers. Discussing with them the artistic and technical aspects of cinema, and … Cinema clubs brought us together in the city, and I personally got my closest friendships from these places, we created a special world for ourselves. Turning to writing about cinema, many people quit their jobs so that cinema became a dream job: “I love you in the cinema.” There are many films in these places, both new and old, there is nostalgia and desire for modern cinema, there are awards and competitions, there are stars in all areas of cinema, most filmmakers left their world in order to be associated with cinema, and Yahya El-Fakharani was an engineer. is a doctor, I graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture, and this is not … I understand it, because I understand everything related to cinema and all cinema, such as “Thieves and Dogs”, or “Spartacus”, or even the handsome James Bond that women love, and all the cinema heroes who live like us, their number is small, because not everyone is a cinema intellectual, and not everyone is a cinema intellectual. The works on the art pages all know film criticism, not all who study in art schools know what film or theater criticism means, except those who God wants them to do so, so that the concept has changed, so the media began to call us art critics. What a farce! No one commented on them, how I failed to convince others of the wrong meaning of this matter. Film is an art that needs its own critics, as do theater and music, and these arts require in-depth research and never-ending study. The follow-up is that no matter how much a film critic watches, there is a large part of the film that he must watch to complete his culture. This circle has obviously shrunk in recent times, and I have lost. On a personal level, just like the film lost, some friends, in order to write about film and to improve their writing skills, remained confused in front of this boundless ocean, the ocean of film, for a month. Mourning on my page a group of friends who wrote about their love for film, how many friendships, arguments, agreements and disagreements we had, so they were closer than some of my family members. A conscious intellectual who died without anyone noticing after a long dedication in the magazine Sabah Al-Khair, I do not know why he did not think about the man who was responsible for collecting the golden book of this great article. The Tunisian critic Khamis Khayati presented them to the people to let us know to what extent we have lost incomparable values ​​and also transferred to another world. It is a long history of writing, preparing festivals and visits, as well as writing. It is an extension of Rushdi Abu Al-Hassan, the third of whom is Nader Adly, who loved this art and wrote articles and books for it, and for more than thirty years has been involved in most of the activities of the Al-Alam Foundation’s publications. The fourth is Abdel-Ghani Daoud, who had the same love for cinema and theater and participated in activities as a writer and arbitrator throughout his life. He received only a few recognitions during his life, the most famous of which is the Thank You Award from the Writers’ Union.
These are examples of many names including Youssef Sharif Rizkallah, Ahmed Raafat Bahjat, Rafiq Al-Sabban, Samir Farid, the list is long.