Category Archives: movies

confusing (Film: Shanghai – John Cusack, 2010)

Posted on April 17, 2014 by admin

Maybe too many pictures were already made about that city and that period and they look too much one like the other. Or maybe after Ang Lee made one of them (Lust, Caution) there is not too much to say … Continue reading →

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Au coeur de la nuit (Film: La Rafle – Jean Reno, 2010)

Posted on April 15, 2014 by admin

The Jewish people faced many dark moments in its long and troubled history. What happened in the night of July 16, 1942 in Paris – the arrest of more than ten thousand Jews, men and women, young, old and children, … Continue reading →

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Jewish Laughs – The Purim Edition

Posted on March 14, 2014 by admin

The pattern of Jewish holidays goes like this. We first say (or watch others saying) a prayer. Then we tell or read a story about how other very very very bad people tried to discriminate, kill, destroy us the very … Continue reading →

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beautiful but … (Film: La Grande Belleza – Paolo Sorrentino, 2013)

Posted on February 26, 2014 by admin

A few days from now ‘La Grande Belleza’ will probably get the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language picture so it’s probably a daring act on my part to share the opinion that this film is over-rated and that … Continue reading →

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Scorsese did it again (Film: The Wolf of Wall Street – Martin Scorsese, 2013)

Posted on February 24, 2014 by admin

‘Inspired by a true story’ seems indeed to be the mantra for the majority of the films in the Academy Awards race this year. A few days ago I saw ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ and now this ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ … Continue reading →

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AIDS docu-melodrama (Film: Dallas Buyers Club – Matthew McConaughey, 2013)

Posted on February 21, 2014 by admin

‘Inspired from a real story’ can provide the premises of good movies and bad movies, or I should put it in different words – movies I like and movies I do not like. They are usually good when they aim … Continue reading →

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drama of a fallen socialite (Film: Blue Jasmine – Woody Allen, 2013)

Posted on February 17, 2014 by admin

Some of the latest films of Woody Allen seem so much taken out of life that you have the feeling that Woody’s camera caught a point in time when the story started and left the story at another point in … Continue reading →

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an amazing technical achievement (Film: The Adventures of Tintin – Steven Spielberg, 2011)

Posted on February 9, 2014 by admin

Having made some of the best and some of the most successful movies in the history of film making, Steven Spielberg has nothing to prove to anyone but himself. He is the complete master of the subjects and themes, genres … Continue reading →

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huge acting by Meryl Streep (Film: August: Osage County – Meryl Streep, 2013)

Posted on February 8, 2014 by admin

I had seen the play that inspired August: Osage County a few years back on stage at the HaBima theater in Tel Aviv and I confess that I did not remember much of the story. It took me this second … Continue reading →

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terror thriller a la americaine (Film: Secret Defense – Philip Haim, 2008)

Posted on February 6, 2014 by admin

What is bluntly visible in this French film is the American look. Actually it is not only the look – the whole approach taken by the film starting with its story and I dare say with its ideology, going through … Continue reading →

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