Edward Said: The Last Interview (2004)
• June 11th, 2004 • 3h 26min
Documentary
Overview
Edward Said, Professor of English & Comparative Literature at Columbia University, was a prominent literary critic of the late 20th century and a leading spokesperson for the Palestinian cause in the US. Born to a Palestinian family in Al-Quds (Jerusalem) in 1935, he and his family were dispossessed in 1948 and settled in Cairo. Educated in the US, he lived in New York for many years. Said was a member of the Palestine National Council. After resigning from the PNC in 1991, Said wrote critically about the post-Oslo peace process, the political failures of Yasser Arafat and the PLO. Said was diagnosed with leukemia in 1991 and struggled with the disease while continuing to write and teach. He stopped giving interviews but made an exception less than a year before his death in 2003, speaking about his illness, work, Palestine, politics, life, and education. The last interview is the final testament of this passionately committed intellectual.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
The Age of Disclosure
Released on: 2025-11-21
Documentary
Director Dan Farah got 34 senior members of the U.S. Government, military, and intelligence communit...
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
Released on: 2006-10-27
Music, Documentary
Shut Up and Sing is a documentary about the country band from Texas called the Dixie Chicks and how ...
Freedom of Choice: How the Government Controls What You Consume
Released on:
Documentary
Life is about choice. What we eat, what we read, who we elect; every day we make choices that determ...
The Tragedy of Carpatho-Ukraine
Released on: 1940-03-01
History, Documentary
Documentary-filmed events in the Carpatho-Ukraine (aka Ruthenia) during 1939 drive this history of t...
Filmworker
Released on: 2018-05-11
Documentary
The story of Leon Vitali, who surrendered his promising acting career to become Stanley Kubrick's de...
Grizzly Man
Released on: 2005-08-12
Documentary
Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen sum...
In France with Madonna
Released on: 2022-10-17
Documentary, TV Movie
France is at the heart of Madonna's life. She is inspired by French culture and its values and has s...
The First Family of Satanism
Released on: 1990-01-01
Documentary
Evangelist Bob Larson sits down with Zeena and Nickolas and tries to talk some good old fashioned re...
Jodie Foster - Hollywood under the skin
Released on: 2021-04-03
Documentary, TV Movie
From her precocious status as a sex symbol to her consecration as a filmmaker, Jodie Foster's story ...
Doctors of the Dark Side
Released on: 2011-01-01
Documentary, Crime, History
Doctors of the Dark Side is the first feature length documentary about the pivotal role of physician...
Ciné regards: Jacques Tati
Released on: 1978-04-05
Documentary
Interview with the French film director, conducted for television in 1978.
Blood Amber
Released on: 2017-08-23
Documentary
Somewhere in Myanmar is a forest rich in amber and controlled by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA)....
The Howard Stern Interview: Bruce Springsteen
Released on: 2022-11-27
Documentary
Over two hours of intimate, in-depth conversation between Howard Stern and Bruce Springsteen, taking...
Threads of a Revolution
Released on: 2025-05-02
Documentary
When artist Janet Biehl fell in love with radical American philosopher Murray Bookchin in the 1980s ...
The Changing Face Of Salford Collection
Released on: 1970-01-01
Documentary
Between 1968 and 1970, J M Goodger, a lecturer at the University of Salford, made a film record of t...
His Master's Voice
Released on: 1978-02-22
Documentary
Jacques Lemonnier of IBM France, Francois Dalle of L'Oreal and other ultrapowerful French moguls are...