While we look forward to a plentiful 2019 as far as foreign cinema is concerned (of which we highlighted #300-151 and our countdown #150-1 to anticipate...
Tis the season for fevered wish lists and constantly fluctuating prognostications concerning the soon to be revealed 2016 program at the Cannes Film Festival....
The Burglar
Director: Hagar Ben Asher
Writer: Hagar Ben Asher
Actress turned director Hagar Ben Asher’s first film, The Slut (2011) premiered at Cannes and went onto...
With the world’s most prestigious film festival just around the corner, cineastes have been lasciviously salivating about what’s going to show up at Cannes,...
The Burglar
Director: Hagar Ben Asher // Writer: Hagar Ben Asher
Actress turned director Hagar Ben Asher’s first film, The Slut (2011) premiered at Cannes (we...
The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.