Search results for: Samuel Maoz

Peril looms from all sides and, ironically, the tank’s imperiousness is also its weakness. In this type of warfare, information can be more useful than bombs. But a tank is a poor platform for intelligence gathering so the crewmen feel like blind, sitting ducks, unable to tell friend from foe. And Maoz has carefully crafted each fearful moment to nudge his viewers ever closer to the edge of their seats…

Update: Two weeks ago we reported that ARTE France is putting their financial support of Israeli films on hold (see below). This week Jérôme Clément, the president of ARTE, is visiting Israel, and in an interview to Ha'aretz newspaper he overturned the decision." ARTE has no intention of putting a stop to the successful collaboration".

The French sales/production company is supplying this year's Cannes fest with a trio of titles, but you might find me doing cartwheels more for a project that hasn't even began lensing in Marjane Satrapi's Waiting for Azrael.

Have Joel and Ethan Coen followed up No Country for Old Men with another Oscar winner? A clear favorite (I've got my hand up) among the film critics and bloggers polled by IndieWIRE, A Serious Man might have a big and bright future ahead of it and as Eugene points out, "the Coens latest took top honors as Toronto’s best narrative film, finding a place on nearly every single ballot.

I've come up with a magical number of 30 films that I'll be covering for the fest (you might have noticed the TIFF Picks countdown over the past couple of weeks), when in fact that, the number of films I hope to catch a whopping 44!