Articles tagged "alon aboutboul"

Film Feature

Urban Fairytales and Political Ghosts

by Abby Margulies

[11.Feb.09] :. With the setting shifting from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, recent Israeli films are showing an evolution in storytelling away from nationalism and war and towards the fantastic and the interiority of everyday life.

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News

Audiences turn a deaf ear to preachy Hollywood films

by Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[31.Oct.08] :. Used to be, going to the movies was a way to escape the bustle and stress of the real world for a couple of hours. Lately, the multiplex has become a more tumultuous place. Choose the wrong picture,...

PopWire

 

Film Review

Body of Lies

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Oct.08] :. Body of Lies grants Ferris the usual moral rightness -- even as he's committing questionable acts, he means well.

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Short Ends and Leader

DiCaprio Only Reason ‘Lies’ Succeeds

by Bill Gibron

[9.Oct.08] :. Ridley Scott used to make daring, original movies. No matter the subject matter - outer space alien invasion, magical sword and sorcery adventure, revisionist Roman peplum - he’d place his...

Short Ends and Leader

 

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: October 2008

by Bill Gibron

[10.Sep.08] :. What studio suit thought this was a good idea? With four months to schedule your high priced efforts, you instead unload almost 30 overpriced pictures on an unsuspecting movie audience.

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview