Tag Archives: Gary Oldman

the destroyer of worlds (film: Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan, 2023)

It’s only the middle of summer and we are almost half a year before the Academy nominations, but I think we already have one of the serious contenders for collecting many of the 2024 awards in Christopher Nolan‘s ‘Oppenheimer‘. It’s … Continue reading

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the story of the man who won for Orson Welles the only true Academy Award of his career (film: Mank – David Fincher, 2020)

Hollywood loves to make films about Hollywood, and to turn the stars of the past into the heroes of contemporary films, even at the risk of producing revisionist versions of the history of the seventh art. ‘Mank‘ released in 2020 … Continue reading

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quite a good B-movie (film: Criminal – Ariel Vromen, 2016)

‘Criminal‘, Ariel Vromen‘s 2016 film is an interesting combination that, depending on the expectations and the mood of the viewers, can disappoint or be a pleasant surprise. It is a spy film based on a science-fiction idea that is not … Continue reading

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roots of leadership (Film: Darkest Hour – Gary Oldman, 2017)

This season of the Academy Awards has two strong contenders in movies that deal with the events that took place in May and early June 1940. While Christopher Nolan‘s Dunkirk used the power of the computer effects to retrace the … Continue reading

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The Film that Comes from the Cold (Film: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, after John le Carre, 2011)

A few weeks after coming to Israel as a new immigrant in 1984 I started to borrow books from the public library in Lod. The first book that I ever read after becoming a free man was John Le Carre‘s … Continue reading

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