New Arrival Cairo Station (#1273)

Youssef Chahine established his international reputation with this masterpiece, which, though initially a commercial failure in Egypt, would become one of the most influential and celebrated works in all of Arab cinema. The director himself stars as Kenawi, a disabled newspaper hawker whose obsession with a sultry drink seller (Hind Rostom, known as the Marilyn Monroe of Arabia) leads to tragedy of operatic proportions on the streets of Cairo. Blending elements of neorealism with provocative noir-melodrama,Cairo Stationis a work of raw populist poetry that explores the individuals search for a place in Egypts new postrevolutionary political order.

• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• New 2K digital restoration ofCairo as Seen by Chahine(1991), a short documentary by Youssef Chahine, with an introduction by film scholar Joseph Fahim
• New interview with Fahim
• Chahine . . . Why?(2009), a documentary on the director andCairo Station
• Excerpt from Chahines appearance at the 1998 Midnight Sun Film Festival
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by Fahim