In “Golda,” Helen Mirren, acting with deft skill and control beneath one of those startling transformative prosthetic makeup jobs, portrays Golda Meir during the three-week cataclysm of the Yom Kippur War, which shook Israel to its bones in the fall of 1973. As the actor stands before us, we can believe our eyes that this is the Iron Lady of Israel. For here is that frown, those beetle brows, that coarse wavy hair tied into a bun like challah bread, that pugnacious nose, that stare of implacability designed to bore a hole in its beholder. Here, as well, is the woman who lit a thousand cigarettes, chain-smoking her way through the war-room anxiety and through the secret medical treatments she was undergoing at the time for lymphoma.
Yet the voice that emerges from this formidable figure is not what we might expect. It’s light, fast, and American, and Mirren gets it exactly right.
Yet the voice that emerges from this formidable figure is not what we might expect. It’s light, fast, and American, and Mirren gets it exactly right.
- 2/20/2023
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Fipresci Jury Award-winning “A Gaza Weekend” made a splash at Toronto International Film Festival last week. Public and press alike flocked towards theaters for this film’s premiere weekend; each screening was packed. The film’s release could not have been more timely. Written during the swine flu and released after the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, British-Palestinian Basil Khalil pokes fun at plague paranoia in his narrative feature debut. In this punchy family-friendly comedy of the Gaza Strip, any and all traditional power hierarchies are out the window for the sake of survival.
A Gaza Weekend is screening at Toronto International Film Festival
Like many films about Palestine, “A Gaza Weekend” follows the trajectory of a refugee couple – though this time, they’re from Israel. Englishman Michael (Stephen Mangan) and his Israeli partner Keren (Mouna Hawa) are desperate to leave the country after the outbreak of a new deadly Ars virus.
A Gaza Weekend is screening at Toronto International Film Festival
Like many films about Palestine, “A Gaza Weekend” follows the trajectory of a refugee couple – though this time, they’re from Israel. Englishman Michael (Stephen Mangan) and his Israeli partner Keren (Mouna Hawa) are desperate to leave the country after the outbreak of a new deadly Ars virus.
- 9/20/2022
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
If you asked a random group of Israelis and a random group of Palestinians to describe the events that surrounded the founding of Israel in 1948, you’d probably come about as close as you could get to a world political “Rashomon.” The Israelis would likely tell the story of their nation’s founding as a heroic saga of Zionist destiny cloaked in historical justice. The Palestinians would likely tell the story of how they lost their nation, and would evoke that loss with the phrase they have always used to describe it: The Nakba (“The Catastrophe”).
Hundreds of Palestinian towns and villages were destroyed by the Israelis in 1948, and at least 750,000 Palestinians became refugees. To this day, however, to utter the words “The Nakba” is a taboo in Israeli society. Alon Schwarz’s documentary “Tantura” explores just why that is. And it does so by digging into what has been,...
Hundreds of Palestinian towns and villages were destroyed by the Israelis in 1948, and at least 750,000 Palestinians became refugees. To this day, however, to utter the words “The Nakba” is a taboo in Israeli society. Alon Schwarz’s documentary “Tantura” explores just why that is. And it does so by digging into what has been,...
- 2/1/2022
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Rumors say that this year’s Sundance selection is more political than ever, and “Tantura” is no exception. Producer Alon Schwarz previously made his name with his 2016 Holocaust-themed documentary Aida’s Secrets. This time, he re-explores the question of displacement with a subject closer to home: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict of 1948. Playing as a part of the World Cinema – Documentary Competition, he grapples with the period’s core questions. How do we – and how should we – approach history? Why should certain narratives be privileged over others? What responsibilities do we have to uphold certain stories? With the bloodstained beaches of Tantura in mind, Schwarz interrogates modes of past, present and future historiography.
“Tantura” is playing in Sundance as a part of its World Cinema – Documentary Competition
The film begins its investigation with Teddy Katz, a University of Haifa alumnus. In his student years, he pointed out that Tantura – contrary to...
“Tantura” is playing in Sundance as a part of its World Cinema – Documentary Competition
The film begins its investigation with Teddy Katz, a University of Haifa alumnus. In his student years, he pointed out that Tantura – contrary to...
- 1/28/2022
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
In May 1948, after the controversial approval of the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine, war broke out between Arab and Jewish factions in the region. The conflict began due to claims over the same land. Following the declaration of the new state of Israel by Israeli leader (and eventual Prime Minister) David Ben-Gurion, the new country claimed the land for itself through a war of independence. Palestinians refer to the same conflict as “Al Nakba,” or the catastrophe.
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- 1/25/2022
- by Ned Booth
- The Playlist
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