Tag Archives: British cinema

the comet and the star (Film: My Week with Marilyn – Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh, 2011)

Posted on October 10, 2014 by admin

Films about film making, about famous actors and directors were very much en vogue a few years ago, and “My Week with Marilyn” belongs to this wave. About that time two (good) movies about the master of suspense were made, … Continue reading →

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Zero or Infinity (Film: The Zero Theorem – Terry Gilliam, 2013)

Posted on October 4, 2014 by admin

‘The Zero Theorem’ is directed by Terry Gilliam, a highly original creator and an explorer of the future, which he already described in rather dark colors in several memorable films like ‘Brazil’ and ‘Twelve Monkeys’. His other principal title of … Continue reading →

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Becket, dupa 50 de ani (Film: Becket – Richard Burton, Peter O’Toole, 1964)

Posted on January 22, 2014 by admin

Stranie experienta este revederea unui film la jumatate de secol (sau aproape) de la prima vizionare. Cand ‘Becket’ a aparut pe ecranele romanesti trebuie sa fi fost 1964 (anul producerii filmului) sau 1965. Memoria afectiva si selectiva a pastrat in … Continue reading →

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Anna Karenina as never seen before (Film: Anna Karenina – Joe Wright, 2012)

Posted on March 30, 2013 by admin

What else can be said about Anna Karenina, one of the books that were read, brought to stage and screen so many times? We think that we know the action and the characters, and it takes quite an amount of … Continue reading →

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Mission Accomplished, the Oscar (Film: The Iron Lady – Meryl Streep, 2011)

Posted on May 6, 2012 by admin

If the goal of The Iron Lady was to get another statuette for Meryl Streep, the mission was accomplished. Streep receives a generous part which takes former British PM Margaret Thatcher from her early days in the Commons to the … Continue reading →

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The Film that Comes from the Cold (Film: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, after John le Carre, 2011)

Posted on February 11, 2012 by admin

A few weeks after coming to Israel as a new immigrant in 1984 I started to borrow books from the public library in Lod. The first book that I ever read after becoming a free man was John Le Carre‘s … Continue reading →

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Film: The King’s Speech (2010)

Posted on February 6, 2011 by admin

Here is a film whose destiny is to gather a lot of statuettes on the Oscar night this year, and this may be one of its problems in my eyes. The combination between a personal drama doubled by a physical … Continue reading →

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