MOVIES

The Holocaust and the Resurgence of Courage as a Modern Jewish Virtue
By Alexander Green  |  17/12/2009
The movie Defiance, directed by Edward Zwick and based on the book written by Nechama Tec, emerges as one of the first Hollywood movies to suggest that the problem facing modern Jews is a lack of courage

Culture has yet to internalize the feminine perspective
By Anat Zuria  |  15/10/2009
Anat Zuria believes that Netalie Braun’s Metamorphosis is an important film. Braun succeeds in showing how sexual crimes are silenced not only by means of external denial mechanisms, and ties them to mythic elements in Western civilization

Victims of Eutopia
By Anat Zuria  |  27/08/2009
“Children of the Sun” directed by Ran Tal uses kibbutz archival footage to paint a portrait of those who were designated to become the first generation of the “New Jew” revolution. The price of distancing children from their parents turned out to be far higher than was imagined by the architects of the kibbutz movement...

The Unexpected Reception
By Anat Zuria  |  20/08/2009
The musicians of the Egyptian band along with their hosts, the residents of a remote desert town, could all have emerged from a short story by Chekhov, in which missed opportunity is the basic human experience