Variety.com (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Film News: Cannes Palme D'Or winner to open event -- The 46th New York Film Festival will kick off its opening night with Cannes Palme d’Or winner Laurent Cantet’s “The Class.”
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Film News: Festival adds 9 world premieres to slate -- The screen adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd’s 2002 bestseller “The Secret Life of Bees” will world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival as a Gala. All 21 pics announced by the fest on Thursday are North American preems; nine are also world preems.
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Israeli cinema has been captivating Paris audiences, especially with the release of two films, "Vals im Bashir"(Waltz With Bashir) and "Shiva" (The Seven Days), which made their debuts in Cannes.
English Webster (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
One of the most powerful war films I've ever seen is the Israeli animated documentary and psycho-thriller by Ari Folman called "Waltz with Bashir". This movie is not to be missed. It deserves all its Cannes accolades, and feels authentic and unflinching. The story tracks an IDF veteran's four-year search for his lost memory, and explores the effects of denial and post-traumatic stress syndrome. The...
English Webster (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
A few years ago, Israeli film producer Ari Folman sat down with a friend for a drink. His friend told him about a dream he had about his service in the First Lebanon War, in 1982. Folman realized then that he barely remembered a thing about being an Israeli soldier in the war, barring one flashback of emerging naked from the sea with several other troops in his unit, watching flares light up the Beirut...
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
As much as I love the Sundance Film Festival, it does only come once a year. As a perfect compliment to that fest, the Toronto International Film Festival takes place every September and is just as fun and exciting of a festival. This marks their 32nd year and promises to be one of the best [...]
France24 (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
The Israeli director Ari Folman has created an animated documentary about the Sabra and Chatila massacres in Lebanon in 1982. This cinematic creation that has blended genres was in competition at last Cannes film festival.
TO411 Daily (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
The Toronto International Film Festival made way for some Cannes heavyweights Thursday, unveiling Special Presentation slots for Laurent Cantet's Palme d'Or winner "The Class" and Matteo Garrone's Grand Prix winner "Gomorrah" among a group of about two dozen North American premieres. Arnaud Desplechin's "Un conte de Noel" and Canadian helmer Atom Egoyan's "Adoration" -- both Cannes Competition titles...
Bosnia Vault (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
It is never too early to start to get excited about the Sarajevo Film Festival . This year's festival is scheduled for August 15th-23rd and will open with a showing of Aida Begic's " Snow. " Also to be featured in the lineup, Ari Folman's " Waltz with Bashir. "
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Film News: Cannes Critics Week winner to open fest -- Bosnian director Aida Begic’s debut feature “Snow” — which took the top prize at Critics Week in Cannes last month — is to open the 14th Sarajevo international film festival in August.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Film News: Film fest will screen 205 fantasy and genre films -- The Puchon Intl. Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) will kick off July 18 with "Waltz With Bashir," the documentary animation by Israeli helmer Ari Folman, which appeared in competition in Cannes last month.
ximblr.com (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Israeli helmer Ari Folman’s “Waltz With Bashir,” an animated documentary about the 1982 massacres of Palestinian civilians, opens the 32nd Annecy Intl. Animated Film Festival today.Annecy promises sneak peaks or full screenings of pics from France’s burgeoning toon pic industry, and a large emphasis — through pics, guests and conferences — on the Bollywood animation [...]
haha.nu (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Among the most intriguing movies selected for Cannes 2008 official competition, there’s the animated documantary by Ari Folman, Waltz with Bashir. The director explores through memories and surreal images, the Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. @ haha.nu.
Good Neighbours (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
Last night I watched Ari Folman’s new amazing movie “Waltz with Bashir” premiered on May at Cannes festival, and I urge all of you: find a way to see it! It has taken Israeli society its share of years to come up with Post-Zionist narratives to our permanent state of war and the escalation periods we [...]
KABOBfest (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
Ari Folman's " Waltz with Bashir " premiered in Tel-Aviv this week. I attended the premier with much reluctance: I had a sinking feeling that I would be witnessing a filmmaker's rendition of Golda Meir's words: "We will never forgive the Palestinians for making us kill them." I was pleasantly surprised to be wrong. The film documents the struggle of filmmaker Ari Folman to come to terms with the gaps...
