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No Tzedakah, No Love

This week in ‘Millionaire Matchmaker’
By Len Small | 12:00 PM Mar 17, 2010

Unfortunately, Allison Hoffman’s television was struck by one of the many loosened trees from last weekend’s nor’easter, so yours truly—Tablet Magazine Art Director by day, caped superhero by night—will fill you in on last night’s episode of the glory that is Millionaire Matchmaker. For previous coverage, go here.
I’d never watched Millionaire Matchmaker before; most of ...

Israel Nears Third Straight Oscar Nomination

‘Ajami’ is country’s first Arabic-language submission
By Marc Tracy | 1:00 PM Jan 21, 2010

Ajami is one of nine 2009 movies to make the long-list for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Should it be one of the five formally nominated on February 2nd, this will be the ninth year an Israeli film was up for the award, and the third consecutive year (none have won). But Ajami is ...

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War Movies

Samuel Maoz’s ‘Lebanon’ is the latest of three recent films about the 1982 Lebanon war
By Allison Hoffman | 1:30 PM Oct 8, 2009

Does art imitate life, or does life imitate art? Sometimes, it’s a little bit of both: in the summer of 2006, Israel invaded Lebanon for the second time, and every year since, Israeli filmmakers have replied with films that are sharply critical of their government’s prosecution of its first war, in 1982, and subsequent 18-year ...

Toronto Abuzz About Israeli Film

Forget Tel Aviv; they want to see ‘Lebanon’
By Allison Hoffman | 1:00 PM Sep 14, 2009

The biggest buzz yesterday at the Toronto International Film Festival belonged to an Israeli film—and not, as it happens, one of the movies featured in the much-protested spotlight on Tel Aviv cinema, but to Lebanon, a movie by Samuel Maoz that won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday. The film, which ...

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Soldier’s Story

An animated investigation of war
By Sara Ivry | 12:00 PM Dec 22, 2008

Ari Folman at the airport in Beirut in 1982
In September 1982, Christian supporters of President Bashir Gemayel, enraged by his assassination, massacred hundreds of Palestinians at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in West Beirut while Israeli soldiers surrounding the camps did nothing to stop the brutality. Director Ari Folman was among them, but found, ...

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Time of Favor

Israeli cinema has finally come into its own
By Stuart Klawans | 12:16 PM Jul 3, 2008

Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen filming Jellyfish
To judge how greatly Israeli cinema has changed, and how greatly it needed to, consider that the Film Society of Lincoln Center recently showed a retrospective in honor of Israel’s sixtieth anniversary, comprised exclusively of pictures from the past seven years. I think this chronological limit is a little ...