Tag Archives: Kate Winslet

‘Divergent’ is not that different after all (Film: Divergent – Neil Burger, 2014)

Posted on April 7, 2017 by admin

Based on a trilogy of books written by Veronica Roth, Divergent brought to screen by Neil Burger begins as many other similar dystopian films years after the civilization as we know was destroyed by war. One of the surviving pockets … Continue reading →

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dresses and deaths down-under (Film: The Dressmaker – Kate Winslet, 2015)

Posted on June 18, 2016 by admin

The Dressmaker brings to screen a successful Australian novel by Rosalie Ham who sets her 1950s story in a small dessert town in the middle of the big Nowhere which is the Australian wilderness. It’s one of these ‘out-of-the-track’ films … Continue reading →

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Jobs as father (film: Steve Jobs – Michael Fassbender, 2015)

Posted on January 11, 2016 by admin

The second film in the mini-festival of Steve Jobs movies that I enjoyed last Friday was also the better one. Danny Boyle, the director of Trainspotting, Sunshine, and Slumdog Millionaire may have hit gold again, as his Steve Jobs started … Continue reading →

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holiday melodrama (Film: Labor Day – Kate Winslet, 2013)

Posted on August 31, 2014 by admin

Screening ‘Labor Day’  (which was not brought to commercial theaters in Israel) released on Labor Day 2013 on the eve of Labor Day 2014 was a smart move for the distributors, that brought me to the cinematheque in my hometown. … Continue reading →

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chaotic (Film: Contagion – Steven Soderbergh, 2011)

Posted on July 26, 2013 by admin

Having seen a few weeks ago Side Effects I was reflecting that maybe Steven Soderbergh would not necessarily do a bad thing taking a break from directing. Well, I had not seen ‘Contagion’ yet, one of his previous movies. To … Continue reading →

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‘Carnage’ does not leave the apartment (‘Carnage’ – Roman Polanski, 2011)

Posted on February 25, 2012 by admin

‘Carnage’ is a disappointment. Having seen the play staged in Bucharest last spring I knew what it was about, and I was expecting much more from a film directed by Roman Polanski and adapted to screen by the playwright  herself, … Continue reading →

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