Category Archives: documentary

‘Make ’em Laugh’ is much too serious

Posted on March 9, 2010 by admin

I was grown and educated on Robert Youngson’s compilation of Golden Age of Comedy which by the end of the 50s was bringing back to audiences world-wide the great masters of the first decades of comedy in the cinema. The … Continue reading →

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Isabella Rossellini – De la vie d’un papillon

Posted on March 4, 2010 by admin

If there is anything as royal blood in cinema it flows through Isabella Rossellini’s veins. Her mother was the most talented and beautiful Hollywood actress of the 40s and 50s, her father one of the most famous Italian directors of … Continue reading →

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Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker

Posted on March 2, 2010 by admin

The 80s were the Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker rediscovery decade. In 1988 Clint Eastwood made Bird – a celebrated and Oscar-crowned biography of Parker with Forest Whitaker in the main role. It was actually one year after Gary Giddins brought to … Continue reading →

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Documentary – ‘Det Rode Kapel’ (Denmark – 2006)

Posted on February 20, 2010 by admin

‘Det Rode Kapel’ which was presented in Israel by cable TV documentary channel 8 succeeds to do what very few documentary film makers succeeded to do in the last few decades – enter the secluded space of the North Korean … Continue reading →

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