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 · documentary, Film
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
‘Realty’ and realism: the inner life of Frank Bascombe
March 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Fiction
Book Review: Independence Day – Richard Ford I’ve just completed Richard Ford’s Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘Independence Day’, and I have to admit it left me a bit cold. The novel forms the middle part of a trilogy of large-ish books (beginning with ‘The Sportswriter’ and ending with ‘The Lay of the Land’) narrated by a notionally [...]
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