It's Friday night in Marrakesh, and Djemaa el-Fna Square is a panoply of batik-bloused, henna-tagged young American backpackers, boisterous street hawkers, spice sellers, open-air eating pavilions, ...

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Take “Casablanca,” remove all the fun parts, and set it in the present day. It’s not such an odd idea. In Christian Petzold’s “Transit,” it feels eerily natural, and that’s both horrifying and ...

9 a.m. in Casablanca: It’s hot, it’s loud, it’s congested. Palm trees line the boulevards; smog and dust from construction sites cloud the air. The Atlantic Ocean gleams blue beyond. Looking out over ...

Why do we watch movies? For most of us, movies are an escape from everyday life. It's a chance to briefly and vicariously live out a fantasy existence. Casablanca provides this fantasy on many levels, ...