Monthly Archives: January 2013

Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker in Tel Aviv

The Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center (or the Opera House as it is popularly known) has a very solid dance program each season which brings every year to Tel Aviv most of the best ballet and modern dance companies world-wide. … Continue reading

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intelligent sci-fi thriller (Film: Looper – Bruce Willis, 2012)

Once the future was projected in movies as a colorful and peaceful environment, where most of the human challenges will come from encounters with other civilizations and the confrontation with humanity’s own thirst in discovering the Universe and breaking all … Continue reading

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‘It is not for you to decide …’ (Film: Green Zone – Matt Dimon, 2010)

It is seldom that Hollywood gets it right when it comes to describing the realities of the world we live in, and especially when the relation between the American policies and the rest of the world are concerned. Director Paul … Continue reading

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In umbra principelui (Carte: Florian Filip – Zilele regelui)

In Zilele Regelui (Editura Poliron, colectia fiction ltd, 2008) Filip Florian abordeaza o perioada din istoria Romaniei care este aproape Terra incognita. Este vorba despre perioada venirii in tara a principelui strain Karl Ludwig de Hohenzollern, si despre anii in … Continue reading

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war is no party (Film: The Hunting Party – Richard Gere, 2007)

War is no party. Not even a hunting one. Neither are consequences of war, or trying to make justice and catch war criminals. The Hunting Party written and directed by Richard Shephard whose Matador I have seen a few weeks … Continue reading

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‘The Labor of Life’ by Hanoch Levin at the Beit Lessin Theater

The Web site in Hebrew of the Beit Lessin Theatre has under the name of the theater an addition which translates like ‘the most Israeli possible’. This is probably kind of a slogan meant to attract audiences and it certainly … Continue reading

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Evan Christopher in Tel Aviv

Evan Christopher was back last week in Tel Aviv, three years after his tour here, and it was a great opportunity to see and listen to him again in the 3rd concert of the Hot Jazz season at the Tel … Continue reading

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Onoarea sergentului Ion (Film: Medalia de onoare – Peter Călin Netzer, 2009)

Daca filmul acesta ar fi fost facut acum vrei zece ani ar fi fost considerat un eveniment cinematografic. In 2000 sau 2002, inainte de ‘Moartea Domnului Lazarescu’ si de ‘4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile’ un film care sa … Continue reading

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dreams of cinema (Film: Hugo – Martin Scorsese, 2011)

For me the rebirth of cinema in 3D, the moment when the technology met with art is not ‘Avatar‘ but Scorsese‘s ‘Hugo’. James Cameron‘s film validated the technology, brought it into the mainstream, and – of course – made a … Continue reading

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‘Luisa Miller’ at the New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv

2013 marks two centuries since the birth of Giuseppe Verdi and the opera lovers all over the world will see a lot of staging of his operas in the current season. The New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv is no … Continue reading

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