The following Israeli films are now in DVD:
- Lemon Tree by Eran Riklis
- Tehilim by Raphaël Nadjari
- The Band’s Visit by Eran Kolirin
You may also wish to read my own reviews of Lemon Tree and The Band’s Visit.
The “Mama Rachel” Edition of Haveil Havalim is up at West Bank Mama.
History, Sports, Hope and a Movie
The photo on my last post featured a group of Beta Israel (Jews from Ethiopia) women at the Kotel.
The Beta Israel are the Jews of Ethiopia. They are also known as Falasha (Amharic for “Exiles” or “Strangers”) by non-Jewish Ethiopians, but they reject this term which they consider derogatory.
The Beta [...]
After Lemon Tree a fortnight ago, Waltz with Bashir is on at our local movie theater.
Twenty-four years after Ari was a soldier in the IDF, he is contacted by a friend who wants to tell him about a recurring dream he has connected with the 1982 Lebanon War. Later that night, Ari himself has a [...]
The Israeli movie industry has produced so many excellent films in the past few years that I try to go and see them as soon as they are on at our local movie theater.
Yesterday evening we went to see Lemon Tree, a film directed by Eran Riklis. The synopsis can be found on the [...]
Everybody has heard about Juno, Jason Reitman’s latest movie, a well-deserved fame. It is a great movie with a fantastic soundtrack. However, this post is not really about the film, but rather about the reason why I selected it among the fifteen movies or so our movie theater has to offer this week.
Before the Internet [...]
After Shabbat last night, we decided to go to the cinema. The movie theater moved a few months ago; it is now a vast complex near a canal. There is a big car park nearby. It is convenient and quite a nice site. When we got there the car park was full. This was a [...]
Bikur Ha-Tizmoret
This film was released in France three weeks ago and I think it has already been released in the UK and the US. I was lucky to see it in October at a preview during a film festival.
The plot is simpe: A brass band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force [...]
