The trailer for Cairo Time has been released and it looks pretty darn good. Take a look here.

I am so excited about this movie. It looks stunning and the chemistry looks fantastic between Siddig and Patricia.

Fingers crossed that this is the movie that Siddig's talent finally gets appreciated on a wider scale.

Jude.

Wow, what a beautiful trailer.
Can´t wait to see the film.
Hope it will be released here too.

Oh, it looks wonderful!!

What a perfect vehicle for Sid! First, he's a co-star again, finally, not a guest/side/minor role. And plus, he's never had the chance to do this kind of part before. A romantic lead! I'm so excited about this. I really hope it does well with the critics and the box office. (I know we'll all do our part!)

It could be a turning point in his career, following up on his critical acclaim from "Syriana."

OK, OK, plus I can't wait to drool over Sid being all... romantic. I'm re-watching "24" with my husband (a very patient man!) and it occurs to me that, in all his roles, Sid sure does a lot of scowling. Plenty of scowling. Kissing? Not so much. (I imagine that, given the story, there's not *all* that much kissing here, either, but it sure looks like plenty of soulful gazing.)

Yay!

I'd love to see the trailer but I'll have to wait til Monday to get to the library. This computer will freeze big time if I click on the link. But I can't wait to see the movie!

I've watched this trailer over and over maybe a dozen times already. It's enchanting! I love the bright jewel color the movie is filmed in, and the theme music is lovely. Have any of you ever heard this music before? Or do you think it is something original that was composed for "Cairo Time?" In any case, it's gorgeous. I hope they'll put it out on CD.
I don't know how anyone can watch the trailer and not want to see the movie. It looks like it's got everything. A sweet, gentle, beautiful love story. I came across a brief article where someone described the on-screen relationship between Sid and Patricia as magical. Going by the trailer, that seems like a fair description. I think it may be prudent to have a hankie handy for the more poignant scenes. But there is humor, too, which is always good. ("I like your dress."--The nonplussed expression on Sid's face!) And we even get to see Sid dance! His first chick flick! Oh, boy!

Peridot

Don't count on the trailer's music having anything to do with the film. Quite often the people creating the trailer don't have access to the movie's music and select something from a music catalog from which rights can be easily purchased.

That being said, I agree with everything you said about this trailer. It's magical.

Carol

This looks wonderful. Thanks for posting the trailer.

Joy

Oh, that looks good!
I love it! Can't wait to see the movie.

Wow, this looks so good!
It is hard we have to wait, I don't even know if the movie will be shown in Germany.

And the music is ... great. Ok, maybe it is only for the trailer, but I wonder if the music in the second part of the trailer might be from Yann Tiersen. IMDb quotes that a song of Yann Tiersen will be used in the movie and is it only me or does anyone else finds some similarities from the trailer to the fantastic soundtrack of "The Fabulous Destiny of Amelie Poulain" (Amelie of Montmatre) ??

What a wonderful glimpse into Sid's new movie. Sid makes for a dreamy romantic lead, which is what most of us have been waiting for. The thought of Egypt (one of the places I want to visit before I die) and Sid (one of the men I want to meet before I die) together really pushes me over the edge... He has an attitude and presence on the big screen that too few people have had a chance to recognize. Watch out Sidcity, pretty soon we "old" Sidsters won't be able to get a comment in edgewise here!
yvonne

Peridot said:

> I came across a brief article where someone described the on-screen relationship between Sid and Patricia as magical.

Do you remember where you found this? I'd be interested.

Shouldn't there be some advance publicity for this movie? I'd really love to read any articles or interviews. Of course, I'd be especially interested in Sid's POV. I'm sure there must be some good stories about the making of the film. Or do they save those for the DVD special features these days?

Maybe they're thinking that July is a little early to whet people's appetite for an October romance. Big budget movies may be promoted for months and months, but I think they have to be a bit more restrained with a film like "Cairo Time". I'm going to guess their promotional budget doesn't have tens of millions of dollars in it. Hopefully, closer to the October release, we'll see some ads when they'll do the most good.

Carol

http://www.transmissionfilms.com.au/blog/i...e-from-maximum/

Here is a link to the article you asked me about, Beth. It's really just the announcement of a business deal. It may be good news for Sidsters in Australia and New Zealand.

Now that the "Cairo Time" trailer has been released, maybe we'll start seeing more articles and interviews. Since Sid is the male lead, I hope he'll take a prominent role in promoting "Cairo Time." I'd love to see him on the talk shows.

Peridot

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July 10, 2009

http://www.playbackonline.ca/articles/dail....html?print=yes

Found this "Cairo Time" article tonight. It's about a year old and doesn't focus on Sid, so I'm just going to stick the link into this post to be a companion to the other article I found. Wonder if anyone will notice...? This one's kind of good.

Peridot, thanks for posting that link! But... did you see what I saw?

quoted/copied-pasted directly from article:
>the Canada-Ireland coproduction stars Patricia Clarkson as a diplomat’s wife who finds herself engaged in a brief and unexpected love affair with
>a local, played by Alexander Siddig (Syriana, Kingdom of Heaven).

Alexander Siddig??? Siddig?? Geez... can't they get his name right? How many times does he have to simplify his name for folks to get it *right*??
People, it's really not all that hard!

And Carol... you're absolutely right; it is too early. Just after I posted that, I realized that they're either still in post-production or just finishing with it. That's the time period when they'd be filming those interviews that go into the "specials" for the DVD. I guess I got carried away.

Can you enlighten me on the production company that's doing this film? It's not an indie film, is it? The article says it's a joint venture between a Canadian and Irish group. But it sounds like a major American release.

Peridot, you said:
>Now that the "Cairo Time" trailer has been released, maybe we'll start seeing more articles and interviews. Since Sid is the male lead, I hope he'll
>take a prominent role in promoting "Cairo Time." I'd love to see him on the talk shows.

Man-oh-man, I would love seeing Sid do the whole publicity route, including talk shows, but I get the impression that he doesn't do that. Or is it just that he hasn't been in a role that requires that since DS9? (I didn't follow DS9 during its run, so I don't remember what was done. Also, he lived in CA back then.) As Carol points out, July is too early to push an October release. But, Carol, or Mel: When we get closer, will we be sure to have advance notice of any publicity work that Sid does? It wouldn't slip through our radar, would it? I'd hate to miss the chance to set my TiVo for a Sid appearance!

Geez, something about this posting software is changing my post. When I read the article Peridot posted, in the article, they spelled Sid's name with a Q. S-I-D-D-I-Q. I commented about this, quoting his name as they'd printed it, and the software changed it to a G -- S-I-D-D-I-G, just as it should be. I even checked the font they used, because sometimes in a certain font, a Q and a G can look very much alike. But no, that was definitely a Q that they used.

But my complaint looks bizarre, because it looks like I'm complaining that they spelled his name correctly.

Grrr.

Beth

Poor Beth. We have an auto-correct feature on the board the corrects common misspellings of Sid's name. Now, that said, I think you may need to have your eyes checked. The spelling looks correct to me:



Regarding the publicity rounds, of course we will have all of the info posted as soon as it is available. This is pure speculation on my part, but with Patricia Clarkson (Oscar nominee, multiple award winner) plus the fall release plus a sort of "English Patient" feel, this movie looks like Oscar bait to me. We'll have to see how the critics receive it, but as Yvonne said, it's probably going to get pretty busy in here this fall!

It looks like a really great movie. I have been watching it almost the whole morning and just wishing that I was the female lead. Sigh!

Mel, she was talking of the article Peridot found. There his name is spelled with "q". (Though I think that wouldn't be totally wrong as I understand it that there are more than one spelling of "siddig")

And don't talk about Oscar. Maybe this is me being superstitious but don't talk about such a thing before it happens or it won't happen.

Oh, thanks for clarifying, Ulli. Now I need to get MY eyes checked. Yes, there is more than one spelling of Siddig. Using the "q" instead of the "g" seems to happen more often outside the US, I think because the sound of that last letter changes with different accents/languages.

I've watched the trailer for this a few times now and I can't wait to see it. The direction, photography and cinematography look great. Is there a UK release date set yet, that we know of? I agree that it's great to see Sid in a romantic lead role.

As for the music, I'm pretty convinced that some of the music in the trailer is Yann Tiersen, especially after listening to Summer 78 from Good Bye Lenin again which is another reason to go see the film; I love Tiersen's work!

Regarding the "correct" spelling of "Siddig":

Yes, of course, there are always discrepancies when translating from a non-Roman-alphabet language into a Roman-alphabet language. Just like Hebrew; look at all the trouble we have with a simple word like "Channukah." As anyone who's ever tried to Google anything having to do with Channukah knows, you have to search at least three times and possibly six, to account for all the variations in how to spell it!*

When it comes to someone's name, though, I kind of figure that the person who "owns" the name gets to decide what the "correct" spelling is. When that person is a public figure who might benefit from being easily found on a search engine or having publicity material be consistent, it seems that there would be an advantage to picking one "correct" spelling and requiring it be used. The flip side, though, is that if you are trying to approximate the correct pronunciation, then the spelling would have to differ according to the language. So, I guess that might mean one "correct" spelling for Americans and other spellings for other countries.

*sigh*

Anyway, thanks for letting me know about the auto spell-check. At least I know I'm not crazy. No, wait -- scratch that. I know no such thing. But at least this particular instance is not further proof.

Now, back to our originally scheduled topic...

Beth

* Variations of "Channukah" include (but are not limited to):
- Initial sound translated as "Ch" (to indicate the "throat-clearing" sound) vs "H"
- One "N" vs two "N"s
- Final "h" vs no final "h"

I'm sorry about your spelling problems, Beth. *S-I-D-D-I-G vs. S-I-D-D-I-Q* But it sure gave me a good laugh.

Now, about the music in the trailer being by Yann Tiersen--I think TaBet and Cali (Hi, Cali! Welcome to Sidcity) are right about that. I listened to some of his "Amelie" soundtrack, and it does sound like the same composer. It's startling, how talented Yann Tiersen is. I read that some critics have compared his music to Chopin. Wow! How great is it that he got snagged for "Cairo Time!" Carol cautioned that the music in the trailer may be something that the people who put the trailer together just picked out of a catalog, and it may not even be in the movie. I don't doubt that's often the way with trailers--Carol knows what she's talking about. But in this case, since IMDB specifically says Yann Tiersen's music is in "Cairo Time," maybe what we hear in the trailer really is part of the movie's actual score. I hope so. It sets the romantic mood so well. And doesn't it make an interesting contrast with the Middle-Eastern music we hear in the first part of the trailer. You wouldn't think the two styles would work together. But they do. Beautifully.

Peridot

Concerning the spelling:
The name is certainly spelled in his British passboard in latin writing, so from a legal point of view couldn't we argue that the transcription was decided when he got registered?
Well, I do not know about British laws, here in Germany I couldn't argue that my once registered name should be spelled differently without paying a lot of money to get all my papers changed.
Transcriptions can be so confusing when you compare maps of a "non-latin-lettered" country to a travel book, when the two had been edited in different "latin-lettered" countries!

Glad I am not the only one suspecting Yann Tiersens involvement in the trailer

I'm drooling at the possibility of this movie! Very excited!!!

Hugs, Josie

I took a closer look at the "Cairo Time" entry at IMDb, and it says that Yann Tiersen's "Loin Des Villes" (Les Retrouvailles) is the song that is used in the movie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik3K9w6BNnc A nice song, but not the lovely music we hear in the trailer. So it would seem that Carol (quoted above) is right. IMDb also says that "Loin Des Villes" is used at the end of the movie. That sounds like it is just played during the credits. I'm a bit bummed out. What do y'all think?

Peridot

Argh, you're probably right. Can't find a hint on the film music and composer. IMDb mentions that Yann Tiersen contributed one specific song, so wouldn't they mentioned if he is involved in more of the score??
I like the musik in the trailer - no matter who made it - so I just hope it will be in the movie.
Would be a very stupid decission not to include it, now that it is already made and fits in so wonderfully, wouldn't it?

The trailer is currently available on Youtube-and I favorited it. If I get to the library, I'll post a link to it.

(can't do it right now)

OK-I'm at the library now so here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orXcdLwtVRY