How to pronounce“kul”in English

Ljubinka Kulisic!

Jennifer Kulage was in it from all the Christopher guest movies and she's on Two Broke Girls now and she's just brilliant. And because Roseanne was like

amazing kulinary Bounty they just don't have any depth of History to it it's all

With "Looking for Oum Kulthum," Oum Kulthum is the biggest, the most important artist of the 20th century in the Middle East, without a doubt.

and relationship to Oum Kulthum.

But Oum Kulthum, they just loved her music.

The name's the Kuleshov Effect, much talked about by Alfred Hitchcock, very well known in the cinema world.

I want to say Umm Kulthum because that makes you sound more regal.

The king of Egypt but also Umm Kulthum.

It's like the example that Kuleshov gives.

So we talk a lot about Umm Kulthum.

I had not heard of Umm Kulthum before.

With him that is fellow accordionists Ljubinka Kulisic, a Serbian accordionist and a very accomplished international performer.

There's a mystic named Irwin Kula who says something very cool, "Everything is God in drag" right?

was the time of the great kulits that ruled from North Africa through Central Asia the reason we think of the Middle

So I did a couple tests with Atul Kulkarni.

of aesthetics that you even bring into "Oum Kulthum." And there is a sort of tension between the beauty and also

So here is a famous example by Lev Kuleshov, a Russian film director.

So I have Google to thank for my knowledge of Umm Kulthum.

Katrina actually has a beautiful song in the show about Umm Kulthum and we are going to hear it in a minute.

rule the what's the fallback rule which is called the mia kulpa rule which is like it means now it's my fault. So now

And I did a couple of more tests after that with Atul Kulkarni because there's a lot of parts that we have together.

But indeed, I think this is Kuleshov's great insight is that when we're interpreting a face, we interpret a lot of the emotion in that face

It turns out, it was Umm Kulthum, who's mentioned in a song as sort of a central-- who was the Frank Sinatra of--

Well, we just put some Umm Kulthum songs together.

Katrina, did you know about Umm Kulthum and was that part of your research process?

Jeg tror at den største sannheten eller sannhetene er de som du finner i alle kulturer som

And that opens up a whole beautiful conversation told through music about Dina's memories of being a child and listening to Umm Kulthumb and watching movies

So really, my mother, Umm Kultum, Nancy Ajram, and all those Arabic pop stars.

to starve a quarter of the Ukraine, to kill all the Kulaks in the Soviet Union, and to send tens of millions of people to the gulag,

And I just completed this new film, "Looking for Oum Kulthum," that we will show some clips.

Its about a Persian director's attempts to film the life and legacy of the Egyptian singer Oum Kulthum.

And she says, oh, like Umm Kulthum?

So please give it up for Katrina Lenk, singing "Umm Kulthum and Omar Sharif."

But I worked a lot with DuPont, and last week Ellen Kullman resigned, was fired, draw your own conclusion, but it's a real sad thing because she

I I I think it's just impossible accurately to describe the uh policies of any American Administration since Calvin kulage is L say fair um this is a

We have to have the courage to see peace as a call to action and is everyone's responsibility, or kuleana as we say here in Hawai'i.

Wow. So I think that's a good point for us to turn to "Looking for Oum Kulthum," which is your most recent film project, one of these projects

So here is, I think it's Isaac Mosjoukine, who's one of Kuleshov's actors.

And that's what makes it a really awesome musical, and not just trying to copy an Umm Kulthum concert and putting it on stage.

So that was really a fascinating thing to learn, and I'm still learning about all of the differences of Umm Kulthum's music.

um, where their music came from. Here's an example. Um, the Kuli tribe of New

or something and it was this slice and dice thing and I always used to watch it kind of fascinated intrigued and thought well wow I could make kulsa and salsa in