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A Comedy Homage to the Film Noir

Posted on May 31, 2012 by admin

I confess not to be a big fan of  Steve Martin, an actor whose comedies I find to be too often on the exaggeration side of the joke, playing all the time almost in the same register. Yet, Carl Reiner‘s … Continue reading →

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Theater in Time of War (Film: Le Dernier Metro – Truffaut, 1980)

Posted on May 30, 2012 by admin

‘Le Dernier Metro’ is one of the last films Truffaut made, and I believe was the last that premiered during his life time. His period of innovating and revolutionizing the French cinema, breaking conventions and pushing ahead a new way … Continue reading →

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Cartea de Film: Paolo Russo – Istoria cinematografului italian

Posted on May 29, 2012 by admin

‘Istoria cinematografului italian’ este a doua carte din in seria ‘Filmul pentru toti’ a editurii IBU Publishing pe care am citit-o cu placere si interes in ultimele cateva saptamani.  Tradusa in romaneste si publicata in 2011, cartea a aparut in … Continue reading →

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MIB are back … they actually never left us … so what?

Posted on May 27, 2012 by admin

Men In Black are back. 15 years after the first (and best) film in the series Hollywood tries to squeeze some more dollars from the same idea.Sequels are never easy to do. You need both to ensure continuity and bring … Continue reading →

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The Risks of Good Education (Film: Kynodontas – Greece, 2009)

Posted on May 8, 2012 by admin

Director Giorgio Lantimos‘ film Dogtooth (Kynodontas) is an anti-utopia. It imagines a world that does not exist, with rules and conventions so different from the ones of the society we live in that some of its aspects are shocking. A … Continue reading →

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Stretching to the Limit (Film: Limitless, 2011)

Posted on May 7, 2012 by admin

One of the latest films I saw before ‘Limitless’ was ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’. The two share at least one line in which the supernatural capabilities of the hero are explained by his making used of 100% of his brain capabilities, … Continue reading →

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Film: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (Nicholas Cage, 2010)

Posted on April 28, 2012 by admin

‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ is designed on a very clear and often used formula of the Disney family movie with special effects, and it holds no surprises – in any case neither too bad, nor too good ones. A murky magicians … 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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more than a Footnote? (Film: Footnote, Joseph Cedar, 2011)

Posted on February 5, 2012 by admin

If ‘Footnote’ will win the Oscar for the Best Foreign language film it will certainly by more than a footnote in the history of Israeli cinema, it will be a big event, the first time an Israeli film gets the … Continue reading →

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When Sunset Draws Near (Film: Late Bloomers, Isabella Rossellini, William Hurt – 2011)

Posted on January 29, 2012 by admin

Late Bloomers is about aging, about coping with growing old, about getting close to the Big Six-Zero. I confess being in love with Isabella Rossellini since I realized that Ingrid Bergman had a daughter, and seeing this film I just … Continue reading →

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