Just a quick wrap up on some of the film news from the past month. “Waltz With Bashir� won big in France and at the Golden Globes, and the film’s director, Ari Folman, fought off a thief in Paris who tried to steal his Cesar trophy. But “Waltz� failed to receive an Oscar [...]...

Regrettably, Ari Folman’s animated doco-fantasy film “Waltz with Bashirâ€� didn’t win the Best Foreign Film at the 2009 Academy Awards presentation in Hollywood. With just a month passing after winning the Golden Globes film award, the American film industry second biggest awards extra...

Conventional wisdom unequivocally asserted that the only Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nominee to hold a candle to Waltz with Bashir was France’s The Class - but that even that movie was hardly as technically groundbreaking or thematically poignant as Israel’s nominee. Regardless, The...

First, an introduction: “If we and the movies don’t create an illusion, we’ve failed,� said Mr. Weinstein, whose company released “The Reader.� "The Reader", of course, excuses the SS, the Germans and a few others who killed (sorry) exterminated Jews. A beautiful woman, a bit of cinema-l...

Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent , this week we’re heading to… Israel! Waltz With Bashir opens on an animated, rain-soaked street to the sou...

In this episode of the /Filmcast, Dave Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley discuss their thoughts on this year’s deeply unsatisfying Oscar nominations, reflect on the intellectual bankruptcy of a Tom and Jerry movie, and vehemently debate the merits of Alan Ball’s Towelhead . We...

One of the [many] aspects of the Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon '82 that Ari Folman's animated documentary Waltz with Bashir doesn't touch upon—and there are many, given the film isn't really about the massacre—is international reaction (see Wikipedia): Use of Nazi and Holocaust-related t...

As Israel attacks Gaza, Hollywood offers Jews fighting Nazis....

Open Bar. Slavish appreciation of celebrity and the cult therein. The Golden Globes are not about who wins, really, but that doesn’t mean that I would ever miss an opportunity to complain about it. Watch as I discuss the television awards with a false sense of authority, write about the movie ...

In a timely, sort of surprising portent of things to come this awards season, the National Society of Film Critics chose the Israeli animated documentary Waltz With Bashir as its best picture of 2008. Ari Folman's autobiographical exploration of his role in Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon — ...