LA Times (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Ari Folman's film explores a massacre he has no memory of taking place.
Like Anna Karina's Sweater (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
[NB: Internet access in my summer idyll was about as reliable as....well, something that's not terribly reliable. This was meant to have been posted days ago. My apologies.] Greetings from Finistère...or as it's known in its literal translation, the end...
SpoutBlog (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
Waltz with Bashir is one part Waking Life, one part Schindler's List, and two parts awesome - Telluride 2008
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
Film News: Twelve films from region to be shown -- The Middle East will be in focus at November’s 49th Thessaloniki Intl. Film Festival in Greece, with a spotlight showcasing a dozen films from 10 countries in the region.
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
For nine days, Toronto has a broader, fresher menu than any film festival in the world
LA Times (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
Eastwood's film, starring Angelina Jolie, is one of several North American premieres of top Oscar hopefuls.
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.
RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
An animated film you may not have heard of...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 02/08/2008
Film News: Five films competing for chance at Oscar entry -- Israel's Film Academy has announced five best picture nominees for the Ophir Awards, the annual film competish that leads to the selection of Israel's official entry for the best foreign language film category at the Academy Awards.
Avuncular American (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
For two whole days the sound of gunfire could be heard from the camps but it was only on the third day, when panic-stricken women swarmed the Israeli troops outside the camps, that the picture became clear: the Christian forces...
Ryan's Smashing Life (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
from the 2008 Cannes Film Festival: Animated Autobiographical Documentary: Waltz with Bashir is an animated documentary dealing with director Ari Folman's pieced together memories of the 1982 Lebanon War. The director was 20 years old and on the front line in Beirut. Specifically, the film deals with Folman's trouble recalling The Sabra and Shatila massacre - the darkest part of the Israeli occupation...
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
Selections were announced this week for the 2008 Ottawa International Animation Festival (September 17-21). Four features and 101 short films are in competition this year, and as usual, I think it’s one of the stronger film line-ups of any animated film festival. The features screening in Ottawa are the French anthology Fear(s) of the Dark, [...]
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
Film News: Cannes Palme D'Or winner to open event -- The 46th New York Film Festival will kick off its opening night with Cannes Palme d’Or winner Laurent Cantet’s “The Class.”
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Film News: Festival adds 9 world premieres to slate -- The screen adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd’s 2002 bestseller “The Secret Life of Bees” will world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival as a Gala. All 21 pics announced by the fest on Thursday are North American preems; nine are also world preems.
