Thursday, February 13, 2020 Jumada II 19, 1441 AH Doha today 120 - 160 COVER Net result STORY Netflix didn’t win best picture, but Parasite couldn’t have triumphed at the Oscars without it. P4-5 REVIEWS SHOWBIZ Harley Quinn and her girl I don’t have a set idea on what gang are lovable psychopaths. I want to do: Alaya F. Page 14 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Thursday, February 13, 2020 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.52am Shorooq (sunrise) 6.12am Zuhr (noon) 11.49am Asr (afternoon) 3.03pm Maghreb (sunset) 5.27pm Isha (night) 6.57pm USEFUL NUMBERS Love Aaj Kal two stories set in diff erent times that interact to learn (or CAST: Kartik Aaryan, Sara Ali Khan, Randeep Hooda perhaps unlearn) from each other the diff erent facets of love, DIRECTION: Imtiaz Ali commitment and relationships. Emergency 999 SYNOPSIS: A contemporary and relatable portrayal of THEATRES: Landmark, Royal Plaza, The Mall Worldwide Emergency Number 112 Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 Local Directory 180 International Calls Enquires 150 Hamad International Airport 40106666 Labor Department 44508111, 44406537 Mowasalat Taxi 44588888 Qatar Airways 44496000 Hamad Medical Corporation 44392222, 44393333 Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation 44845555, 44845464 Primary Health Care Corporation 44593333 44593363 Qatar Assistive Technology Centre 44594050 Qatar News Agency 44450205 44450333 Q-Post – General Postal Corporation 44464444 Humanitarian Services Offi ce (Single window facility for the repatriation of bodies) Ministry of Interior 40253371, 40253372, 40253369 Ministry of Health 40253370, 40253364 Hamad Medical Corporation 40253368, 40253365 Sonic The Hedgehog Tom Wachowski. They must soon join forces to prevent the Qatar Airways 40253374 DIRECTION: Jeff Fowler evil Dr. Robotnik from capturing Sonic and using his powers CAST: Jim Carrey, Ben Schwartz, James Marsden for world domination. SYNOPSIS: Sonic tries to navigate the complexities of life on Earth with his newfound best friend – a human named THEATRES: Royal Plaza, Landmark, The Mall ote Unquo u te Q “However diffi cult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” – Stephen Hawking Community Editor For movie timings and Kamran Rehmat further details please scan e-mail: [email protected] the QR code above with your Telephone: 44466405 mobile phone camera or visit qatarcinemas.com Fax: 44350474 Thursday, February 13, 2020 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY Ballet Lessons WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier WHEN: Ongoing TIME: 4pm – 8pm For more info e-mail at registration@ atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839. After School Activities WHERE: Atelier WHEN: Ongoing Music and arts activities for students taking place after they fi nish their day in school includes Group Music lessons, Hip- hop, Ballet, Drawing and Painting, Drama MIA Park Bazaar 2020 TIME: 12:30pm Theatre & Taekwondo. Ages between 5 and 10 WHERE: MIA Park Street Food is the ideal venue for a leisure Qatar Food Fest years old after school hours. WHEN: Ongoing till April 25 experience for the whole family off ering over WHERE: Sheraton Hotel Park TIME: 2pm — 8pm 20 dine-in options and 18-hole World Mini- WHEN: Ongoing till April 30 MIA Park Bazaar is a modern version of Golf setup. TIME: 4pm — 1am the Old Souq tradition with vibrant mix of The festival is currently happening at around 120 stalls. You can browse and buy Hobby Classes Sheraton Hotel Park. Qatar Food Fest features handicrafts, accessories, paintings, clothing, WHERE: Mamangam Performing Art 77 stalls, food trucks, and trolleys, bringing food, jewellery, photography and art. Centre culinary and cultural experiences from all WHEN:Wednesday – Monday corners of the globe to visitors and residents Mamangam is an art and performance in Qatar. centre started with a vision of spreading our knowledge, interests and experience in various disciplines in arts across different Public Speaking Classes for Adults countries for children and adults. WHERE: Sharq Capital, C-Ring Road We offer regular classes in disciplines like WHEN:Ongoing till July 1 traditional classical dance, art and craft, TIME: 6:30pm – 9pm Bollywood and hip-hop styles, Carnatic Get trained by experts to be a good speaker. music, robotics, percussion instruments, Smedley Toastmasters is conducting a keyboard, yoga, zumba and martial arts six-month speech-craft programme that like Karate, Shaolin Kung Fu and Kalari. teaches new members to speak confi dently For those who wish to register e-mail and develop leadership skills. For more at [email protected] or call on information, 66053485, 33232490 or visit 33897609/44723680 www.SmedleyToastmasters.org 2020 Grand Prix – Test and Race WHERE: Losail International Circuit WHEN: March 6–8 2020 Grand Prix is set to take place from March 6 till March 8 at the Losail International Circuit. Built-in just under a year, the circuit has been a regular venue of the MotoGP calendar ever since. You can watch the races with friends or family in an open-air setting where you will be surrounded by the uproar of larger crowds. Artistic Gymnastic Classes WHERE: Qatar Academy Msheireb WHEN: Ongoing TIME: 3:15pm – 4:15pm The Olympic sport using horizontal bar, rings and fl oor exercises on mats for the children from age 4 till 16. Metro Street Food WHERE: DECC Metro Station WHEN: Ongoing Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Thursday, February 13, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Setting the stage The most important thing Netflix has done for Parasite, and the art of cinema in general, has more to do with television than film. By exposing its audience to a panoply of international television shows, Netflix has made Americans comfortable with subtitles, writes Mary McNamara Netflix, more than even the most beloved and elucidating film critic or even the increasingly international makeup of the motion picture academy, proved to a growing number of people that subtitles are not a barrier but a bridge — to people, situations and artistry that may look different but that share the essential desire to illuminate reality through storytelling MEMORABLE NIGHT: Best Picture Award winners for Parasite accept an award onstage during the 92nd Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday in Hollywood, California. AFP one of the three reluctant to bestow cinema’s academy members — he made including Mother and The Host, Agent! (France), Dark and Babylon acceptance speeches highest honour on Netfl ix’s best his 2017 movie Okja with the are scattered on other platforms), Berlin (Germany), Kingdom (South Bong Joon-ho made at picture nominees, The Irishman and streamer, and when it screened at but that’s not how Netfl ix helped Korea) and Atelier and Terrace the Oscars on Sunday Marriage Story. the Cannes Film Festival that year, Parasite become the fi rst fi lm to win House (Japan), Netfl ix has made night included a shout- Netfl ix spent an estimated $70 audience members booed when both best international feature and Americans comfortable with Nout to Netfl ix, which is a shame; it’s million on its Oscar campaigns this Netflix’s logo appeared in the best picture. subtitles. tough to imagine Parasite making year, a signifi cant amount even by opening credits. The most important thing Netfl ix Which, as Bong said himself last its much-deserved and historical Hollywood standards, that resulted Okja and Snowpiercer, perhaps has done for Parasite, and the art of month when accepting his Golden wins at the 92nd Academy Awards in 24 nominations and two wins, for Bong’s most universally known cinema in general, has more to do Globe for foreign language fi lm, without it. the documentary American Factory movies before Parasite, are with television than fi lm. are “the one-inch barrier” that has Not because, as some have and Laura Dern’s supporting currently available on Netfl ix, By exposing its audience to a prevented far too many people from suggested, the antipathy many performance in Marriage Story. which has most certainly panoply of international television exploring the wonders of non- fi lm academy voters feel toward Bong certainly understands the broadened the fi lmmaker’s shows, including but absolutely not English language cinema. the streaming service made them ire Netflix can generate among popularity (his other pictures, limited to, Elite (Spain), Call My Netfl ix did its level best to break Thursday, February 13, 2020 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY this barrier specifi cally for academy wind up feeling stupid? voters with last year’s Roma, for Netfl ix, more than even the which Alfonso Cuarón won in most beloved and elucidating fi lm the directing, cinematography critic or even the increasingly and foreign-language (now international makeup of the international) feature categories, motion picture academy, proved to only to see Green Book take best a growing number of people that picture. subtitles are not a barrier but a This year, the streamer had two bridge — to people, situations and acting nominations for the often, artistry that may look diff erent though not entirely, subtitled The but that share the essential desire Two Popes. to illuminate reality through But more important, the storytelling. And, by the way, are streaming service has proved also terrifi cally entertaining. that all sorts of people, especially This is the world, with all its young people, are not afraid of various beliefs, social quirks, subtitles, especially when they manners of dress and social accompany story forms with which mores, its glorious smorgasbord they are already familiar — police of specifi c triumphs, injustices, procedurals, workplace comedies heroes and villains. and sci-fi thrillers. This is what we, the true When the 2010 Danish political collective we, look like as we drama Borgen premiered on KCET solve crimes, compete with co- in 2013 (two years after it was workers, fall in love, betray each made available to some American other, contemplate the meaning viewers through LinkTV), it was an of existence and the foibles of the instantly buzzed-about anomaly.