Waltz With Bashir - Ari Folman
Hagai Levi, creator of the Israeli TV show ‘Be’Tipul‘ - which became in turn the inspiration for the latest HBO phenomenon, ‘In Treatment’, currently championed in the UK by The Guardian - said of Israel that “one of our problems as a nation is that in our mind we [...]
Israel in treatment
May 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Film, documentary
Tags:animation·Ari Folman·Be'Tipul·documentary·dreams·Film·Hagai Levi·HBO·history·Israel·Jews·Lebanon·massacre·memory·nightmares·Psychoanalysis·refugee camp·Sabra·Shatila·The Guardian
Book Review: Paul Auster - The Invention of Solitude
December 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Non-fiction
Book of the dead
The third in a trilogy of books I’ve read by Paul Auster recently - following ‘The Music of Chance‘ and ‘Mr Vertigo‘ - ‘The Invention of Solitude’ is a markedly different work, an autobiographical account divided into two parts: ‘Portrait of an Invisible Man’ and ‘Book of Memory’. The former is a [...]
Tags:chance·childhood·fatherhood·memory·Paul Auster·Pinocchio·solitude·Van Gogh·Vermeer