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Movie about Tel Aviv at Toronto Festival

August 15th, 2009 | Comments Off

Danny Lerner‘s new film: Kirot (“Walls”) will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next month. It will be screened in the so called City to City section, that will feature 10 films focusing on the cinema in Tel Aviv in honor of the city’s 100th anniversary. Kirot stars Bond girl Olga Kurylenko and Israeli singer Ninet Tayeb as two woman living across the hall from each other in an old apartment building in Tel Aviv. The film will be screened in Israel later this year. … Read entire article »

Filed under: centennial, events, movies

In memory: Amos Kenan

August 6th, 2009 | Comments Off

On August the 4th, Amos Kenan, the columnist, painter, sculptor, playwright and novelist, passed away at age of 82. Kenan was born in 1927 in South-Tel Aviv. He wrote the first anti-establishment column in Israel, the satirical “Uzi & Co”. He lived in Paris from 1954 until 1962, were he befriended Jean-Paul Sartre, Herbert Macuse and Noam Chomsky. In 1962, he received the Sam Spiegel Prize, in 1970 the Israel Cinema Council Prize and in 1998 the Brenner Prize. His 1948 novel: “The Road to Ein-Harod“, was made into a film in 1990. A great man is gone… … Read entire article »

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Award for film about Tel-Aviv

March 24th, 2009 | Comments Off

‘Sof Shavua b’Tel-Aviv’ (unauthorised ;-) translation: ‘Weekend in Tel-Aviv, official international title ‘For My Father’) by the director Dror Zahavi (2008) received last wednesday, March 14th 2009, the ‘Grand Prize for Best Film In the International Competition’ at the 13th Sofia International Film Festival (Bulgaria). The story takes place during one weekend in Tel-Aviv, in three main spots that lead to the famous ‘Carmel Market’.  There are three protagonists: 1) Tarek, a Palestinian youth from Nablus 2) Katz, an embittered old fellow 3) Keren, a 17 year old girl, who grew up in a strictly religious family, left her home to become a secular youngster. The three ‘heroes’ are loners, driven by there past and by their inner conviction. [also on: IMDB] … Read entire article »

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The Gordon Pool

March 23rd, 2009 | Comments Off

Two years ago the Municipality of Tel-Aviv razed the historic 54 year-old Gordon swimmingpool without any prior warning. The pool, placed not far from Gordon-beach was the popular pool for the old bohemians of Tel-Aviv; the salt water was demarcated by lush lawns, which would offer a beautiful view of the valley. The forceful manner by which the municipality has conducted itself, without any manners or sensitivity of the historic vallue for the place and its customers (some more then 40 years!!), is revolting. A few weeks ago I watched a 20 minutes raw cut of a documentary about the last two years of this historic pool, made by the film-director Ronen Schechner: it is moving, heart-breaking; Gordon pool was for this people their home. Ronen is looking for sponsor to finish this important documentary … Read entire article »

Filed under: life, movies

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