It was less than a week ago, when one entry here hinted how I considered the lack of uniformity in media as a potential detriment. I reckoned that too much variety has the unintended consequence of providing fewer shared cultural references.
From the photo above, you can see that when we pop a DVD in the player, we are often far from ordinary. The major advantage of using a video-by-mail service is not that it's cheaper. The number of titles available at zip.ca is enormous. I could never expect my local Blockbuster to carry the number of unique titles we usually watch.
A New Day in Old Sana'a arrived today. It was a winner of the Cairo International Film Festival in 2005. It is supposedly the very first full-length feature film from the country of Yemen. When we worked in Taif, Saudi Arabia the capital, of then North Yemen, was not far away. Although we never actually travelled there, we have sufficient references to make the movie a must see.