GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
We begin with a take from David D'Arcy; others follow. Waltz with Bashir [site], the animated memoir directed by Ari Folman, is once again testing whether audiences will respond to animation if it doesn't deal with outer space or talking...
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Thursday evening, Sony Picture Classics hosted a screening of Ari Folman 's Waltz With Bashir --an animated Israeli film about post-traumatic stress disorder and the early 1980s war between Israel and Lebanon--followed by a vice presidential debate and dinner party at the Fifth Avenue home of Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen and his wife, Huffington Post advice columnist Mona Ackerman . "We...
ReverseBlog (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
How does one avoid overly aestheticizing violence when using animation? By its very design, the new film by Ari Folman, Waltz with Bashir, which takes as its subject the notorious 1982 massacre of Palestinians at the Sabra and Shatila...
Mike Lynch Cartoons (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Above: a striking image from Ari Folman's "Waltz with Bashir" feature. From today's WSJ comes an article about Bill Plympton's animation programming for the Woodstock Film Festival titled "Not Just for Kids or for Laughs: The Serious Side of Cartoons" by David D'Arcy. On Plympton: "He usually works without dialogue, which saves on hiring actors and synching voices to drawn characters. He supports himself...
Reel Suave (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Waltz with Bashir directed by Ari Folman has been submitted by Israel as its contender for the foreign language Oscar. The film is also eligible for animated feature but is out of the documentary category. The film uses hand drawn animation to illustrate Folman’s interviews with participants of the 1980s Lebanese war, including the massacre of Palestinian civilians. This is a huge step for cinema...
FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Israeli director Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir has a lot in common with 2007’s Persepolis . Both are animated features reflecting their protagonists’ real-life experiences during tumultuous historical times. But while Persepolis filmmakers Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi simply adapted the imagery of her graphic novel to the screen, Folman has done something more intriguing. He’s taken a documentary...
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Sony Pictures Classics has premiered the trailer for the Israeli animated film Waltz with Bashir . This film has been playing at tons of film festivals over the last few months and gaining tremendous buzz. Waltz with Bashir follows Ari as he interviews old friends and comrades in order to remember what it was like fighting in an Israeli Army mission during the first Lebanon War in the early 1980's....
Reel Suave (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
James Bond will be one of the big attractions of the London Film Festival. Some of the other interesting titles include the George W. Bush film by Oliver Stone called W, Steven Sodenbergh’s Che, Michael Winterbottom’s Genova and Ari Folman’s Waltz With Bashir. But it is surely going to be the world wide premier of Quantum of Solace that is going to be the big thing at this festival. Ron Howard’s Frost...
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
Ari Folman's animated documentary about Israeli war veterans is traumatic, but also original, demanding and rewarding.
Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
by Ryland Walker Knight Amber flares shower past high rise hotels on the beach of Beirut and youthful Ari Folman floats naked off the shore, ignorant and immobile. Two fellow Israeli soldiers wade to the foreground and Folman stands up to follow them ashore in silhouette where they dress in fatigues, their pliant limbs cut against the golden night skyline. In the streets at dawn, Folman turns a corner...
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Israeli film-maker Ari Folman has used animation to tell a story about conflict in Lebanon.
LA Times (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Ari Folman's film explores a massacre he has no memory of taking place.
FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
Waltz with Bashir is a stunning exploration of war, memory, and the disturbingly subjective nature of truth. It’s one of the few films that can claim to be both a documentary and an animated feature, and it uses both forms to a superb end. The film opens with an animated Ari Folman, the writer/director/star, having a drink with an old friend from the Israeli Defense Force during the war with Lebanon...
English Webster (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Following Haim’s recommendation , I went to see Ari Folman’s documentary, “Waltz With Bashir,” on the 1982 Lebanon War and the Sabra and Shatilla massacre. Haim is right that every Israeli should see “Waltz.” But so should anyone elsewhere whose country has marched thoughtlessly into war, or for that matter, anyone interested in the art of film. My article about the movie is now up at the American...
Prospect.org (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
In his new documentary Waltz With Bashir, filmmaker Ari Folman explores his own inability to recall the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon as a means of considering how nations go to war, and how we judge what leaders do.
