Reviewed by GREG KING Directors: Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz Stars: Ronit Elkabetz, Simon Abkarian, Sasson Gabai, Menashe Noy, Eli Gornstein. There have been some great and compelling courtroom dramas over the years which has provided some fireworks, such as Otto Preminger's Anatomy Of A Murder, A Few Good Men, The Caine Mutiny, and now we can add to this list the Israeli courtroom drama Gett: The Trial Of …
ZERO MOTIVATION
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Talya Lavie Stars: Dana Ivgy, Nelly Tagar, Shani Klein, Tamara Klingon. M*A*S*H meets The Office? Israeli cinema is producing some exciting films at the moment. The multi-award winning comedy Zero Motivation, which has been a huge box office success in its native country, screened at the Jewish International Film Festival in 2014, and is now gaining a limited cinema release. …
NIGHT WILL FALL
Reviewed by GREG KING Documentary Director: Andre Singer. What a powerful, moving but grim film to start the day with! When the allied troops liberated the concentration camps in 1945 Allied soldiers, who had been specially trained as cameramen, filmed the stark conditions as a record of the atrocities committed by the Nazis. They captured some horrific and deeply disturbing images of malnourished and emaciated …
THE GREEN PRINCE
Reviewed by GREG KING Documentary Director: Nadav Schirman. We've recently seen a couple of tense Israeli thrillers about a Palestinian youth forced to spy for Mossad and the dangerous situation he is placed in because of this, namely Omar and Bethlehem. And now we get this documentary from veteran filmmaker Nadav Schirman which tells the real life story that inspired those fictional dramas. And The …
THE GREEN PRINCE – interview with director Nadav Schirman
by GREG KING The Green Prince is a fascinating documentary about a young Palestinian, the son of one of the leaders of Hammas, who became a spy for the Israeli security forces. The film, which unfolds like a thriller, tells of the unlikely friendship that developed between spy and spy master. The film won the audience prize at Sundance earlier this year, and it has also screened here in Australia as part of the …
Read More about THE GREEN PRINCE – interview with director Nadav Schirman
MY OLD LADY
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Israel Horovitz Stars: Kevin Kline, Maggie Smith, Kristin Scott Thomas, Dominique Pinon, Noemie Lvovsky, Stephane Freiss. Mathias Gold (Kevin Kline) is a thrice divorced, down and out failed writer and suicidal former alcoholic whose life is a mess. A native New Yorker he arrives in Paris intending to sell the spacious apartment he has inherited from his estranged father for some …
