----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Continuing on the (unusual) Youssef Chahine query by Murray Pomerance 1) Ths last film of his I saw (Cannes , probably 1993) it was his wonderful= homage-love song to Cairo, the title of which eludes me tight now 2) His latest came out in Paris last March (1995). Here is the capsule revie= w. (I'll be glad to translate it but I bet that all Chahinians speak French) = =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D L'EMIGRE. Ayant fui une contree de secheresse et de famine, ou il vivait dans une= tribu pauvre et ou son existence etait menacee, un nomme Ram arrive dans= l'Egypte des pharaons, reputee pays de civilisation. Mais ne va-t-il pas= au-devant de nouvelles mesaventures? Avec Michel Piccoli, patriarche barbu dans le role du pere de Ram, et avec= une foule d'acteurs egyptiens, un film comparable, par son cote= spectaculaire, aux superproductions hollywwodiennes d'antan. Realisateur:= Youseef Chahine, surnomme, pour la circonstance, Cecil B. De Nil. (Jean-Paul Groussset in Le Canard Enchaine, March 8, 1995)=20 The joke at the very end works only in French since the Nile is "le Nil" =20 Edwin Jahiel, U of Illinois, Urbana, Il.