Twitch (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
[Our thanks to regular reader Agent Wax for sending in the following review from the Singapore Animation Nation Festival.] In many ways, this is the hardest review I've ever sat down and committed myself to writing. I regret watching Ari Folman's Waltz with Bashir . No, it's not because it was a waste of time. It wasn't because it was bad filmmaking. On the contrary, it is filmmaking at its finest....
The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
By Steven Zeitchik Anyone waiting or hoping for politics -- that is, for the outside world -- to come to awards season these past few years has probably been disappointed. Two years ago there were a slew of political movies...
Panarmenian (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
The best animated films from 31 countries will be screened in Yerevan cinemas.
The Bookling (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
I am really not sure what is going on with my reading/blogging this month. In September I read just five books and wrote only ONE post. This must be a record low for me and I honestly feel guilty that Book Aid International will only get £5 from me this time around. I have however just had a slightly naughty splurge at Amazon so I now have a toppling stack of books waiting to be read and hopefully...
roads of stone (Free subscription) | 21/09/2009
Tomorrow, President Obama will meet Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, bringing the Arab-Israeli Peace Process stuttering back into life. Let’s wish success to them all as they begin that great endeavour. Meanwhile, the UN Report on the War in Gaza was finally published last week, reminding me of this brief [...]
RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 21/09/2009
Photo: Sony Pictures Classics Sony Pictures Classics has picked up the Venice Film Festival Golden Lion winner Lebanon for U.S. distribution. The acquisition follows a recent trend by Sony Classics as the third Israeli film in recent years to be picked up by the studio following Ari Folman's Waltz With Bashir and Eran Kolirin's The Band's [...]
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 21/09/2009
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up Samuel Maoz's Lebanon, a Hurt Locker-ish view of war from inside an Israeli tank during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon. The film will play at the forthcoming NY Film Festival and screen for press two days hence -- can't wait. The idea would be to position Lebanon as a contender for the 2009 Best Foreign Language Feature Oscar, assuming that Israel submits it as an...
A Nutshell Review (Free subscription) | 21/09/2009
Whirlwind The trouble with memory, is more often than not, over an extended period of time, it tends to be faulty. We recall certain key scenes suspended momentarily in time, but with nary a clue how they move forward or backward, akin to knowing presence of the dots, but lacking the details to connect them up. Traumatic experiences may cause chunks to be buried deep and repressed into the subconscious,...
Stephen Applebaum Writer/Journalist/Editor for Hire (Free subscription) | 19/09/2009
In September, a former IDF soldier took the top prize at the prestigious Venice Film Festival for a harrowing drama based on his traumatic experiences during the 1982 Lebanon war. Samuel Maoz won the Golden Lion just over a year after fellow Israeli Ari Folman's elegant animated account of his attempt to understand his role in the war, Waltz with Bashir, surprisingly failed to win anything at
Israelity (Free subscription) | 13/09/2009
It’s ironic that just as a group of well-known actors and filmmakers, among them Jane Fonda and Danny Glover, are calling to boycott this year’s Toronto International Film Festival because one program there will be devoted to films set in Tel Aviv to mark that city’s centennial, an Israeli film walked off with top honors [...]
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
From this year’s “Coraline” and “Up” to classics, such as “Dumbo” and “Bambi,” Entertainment Weekly counts down the 20 finest.
Panarmenian (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Yerevan will host ReAnimania international animation festival on October 3-6.
Mac|Life all RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 02/09/2009
Hand-drawn or rotoscoped? How comic book-loving twins used Macs to achieve painterly realism in a breakthrough documentary. Case Study: Asaf and Tomer Hanuka Occupation: Illustrators Gear: Power Mac G5, Dual-core Intel Mac Pro, Apple Cinema Displays, Wacom pen tablet, Adobe Creative Suite 3 Tomer Hanuka (shown at left working in his New York studio) is 5 minutes older than his twin brother, Asaf (right),...
Film Intuition: Review Database (Free subscription) | 18/08/2009
Now Available To Own Download it on iTunes Get the Soundtrack Amazon.com Widgets Theatrical Trailer Photo Slideshow Visit the Website Bookmark this on Delicious Print Page Alternately designed to protect us and to accept our own input as though it were a computer we were constantly updating-- the potential of the human mind and our memory in particular is an unfathomable and undeniable enigma. As filmmaker...
Panarmenian (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Various workshops will be organized at the festival, Yerevan premieres of foreign animations will also be held.
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