Shivah Stars
Julian Schnabel’s controversial film Miral, like this week’s parasha, is a meditation on impurity. But while the Torah decries the risks of impurity, the movie extols its virtues.
Julian Schnabel’s Miral, a sympathetic portrayal of four Palestinian women over nearly 50 years, is neither what its defenders claim nor what its detractors allege. It is a collection of fragments that ultimately doesn’t hold together.
Plus, the new Coney Island hot dog, and more
Plus Hamas clamps down, Schnabel on Schnabel, and more
Plus what Abbas says and whom he says it to, Neil!, and more
And criticizes Toronto Film Fest protestors in ‘NYRB’
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