Monthly Archives: February 2014

beautiful but … (Film: La Grande Belleza – Paolo Sorrentino, 2013)

A few days from now ‘La Grande Belleza’ will probably get the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language picture so it’s probably a daring act on my part to share the opinion that this film is over-rated and that … Continue reading

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Scorsese did it again (Film: The Wolf of Wall Street – Martin Scorsese, 2013)

‘Inspired by a true story’ seems indeed to be the mantra for the majority of the films in the Academy Awards race this year. A few days ago I saw ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ and now this ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ … Continue reading

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AIDS docu-melodrama (Film: Dallas Buyers Club – Matthew McConaughey, 2013)

‘Inspired from a real story’ can provide the premises of good movies and bad movies, or I should put it in different words – movies I like and movies I do not like. They are usually good when they aim … Continue reading

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drama of a fallen socialite (Film: Blue Jasmine – Woody Allen, 2013)

Some of the latest films of Woody Allen seem so much taken out of life that you have the feeling that Woody’s camera caught a point in time when the story started and left the story at another point in … Continue reading

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an amazing technical achievement (Film: The Adventures of Tintin – Steven Spielberg, 2011)

Having made some of the best and some of the most successful movies in the history of film making, Steven Spielberg has nothing to prove to anyone but himself. He is the complete master of the subjects and themes, genres … Continue reading

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huge acting by Meryl Streep (Film: August: Osage County – Meryl Streep, 2013)

I had seen the play that inspired August: Osage County a few years back on stage at the HaBima theater in Tel Aviv and I confess that I did not remember much of the story. It took me this second … Continue reading

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terror thriller a la americaine (Film: Secret Defense – Philip Haim, 2008)

What is bluntly visible in this French film is the American look. Actually it is not only the look – the whole approach taken by the film starting with its story and I dare say with its ideology, going through … Continue reading

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not too much to remember (Film: The Salton Sea – Val Klimer, 2002)

The test of the time is probably the best test that a movie can pass or fail. I have seen The Salton Sea two weeks ago, and did not have time to write immediately about it. Two weeks later I … Continue reading

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