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Award after award for Ajami
The movie Ajami about a neighborhood in Jaffo is receiving award after award. Last Sunday the Sutherland First Feature Award at the London International Film Festival and yesterday evening the Golden Antigone in Montpellier, France at the CineMed Mediterranean Film Festival“.. Scandar, Yaron, Cast and Crew: again…Mazzal Tov!!! … Read entire article »
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Ajami will be at the Oscars in 2010
Last night, Saturday 26th, (in Haifa) the movie Ajami, directed by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani, took all (!!) the top-awards at the Israeli Ophir Awards ceremony. They beat their big rival Lebanon by Shmuel Maoz on all levels. Ajami about a neighborhood in Yafo, south of the Old City, received awards for: Best Screenplay, Best Music, Best Director and Best movie of 2009! Scandar, Yaron and the rest of the cast and crew: Mazzal Tov! Ajami will represent the Israeli cinema, next year, at the Oscars. … Read entire article »
Ajami at the cinemas
The movie Ajami directed by Scandor Copti and Yaron Shani will be screened from today, Saturday September 19th, in cinema’s all over Israel. The movie, about a neighborhood in Yafo, received an “honorable mention” at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. On September the 26th, at the Israeli Ophir Awards, it will be in the race to be sent to next year’s Oscar ceremony. … Read entire article »
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Being there
A long, interesting article I did found in Haaretz Magazine (August 14 ) written by Ariel Hirschfeld about the new movie: Ajami, directed by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani. The movie, about a neighborhood in Yafo, won the Wolgin Prize for best feature film this year at the Jerusalem Film Festival and a ‘”honorable mention” at the Cannes Film Festival 2009. The movie is in the race to be send to next year’s Oscar celebrations. … Read entire article »
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In memory: Amos Kenan
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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Sources of hope..
An article, full with hope for a better future, I saw last Friday in The New York Times, written by Joan Dupont about the movie Ajami, a neighborhood in Jaffa, that will be screened at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The movie is directed by Scandor Copti (a Jaffa-born Arab) and Yaron Shani, who is living in Ashdod. … Read entire article »
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“Keep cool boy, real cool…”
Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim‘s West Side Story is going to play in Tel Aviv in September as a part of the popular musical’s 50th anniversary world tour. The visiting American company will be on the Israel Opera Stage. It is directed by Joey McNeely and conducted by Donald Chan. The movie West Side Story by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise was the winner of 10 Academy Awards (Oscars) in 1961. Until now, you won’t forget: “Keep cool boy, real cool…” … Read entire article »
Trekkies in Tel Aviv: Unite!
Following a screening in Silicon Valley the techblog TechCrunch organizes a screening of the new Star Trek movie The Future Begins in Tel Aviv, Thursday 21st. For nerds only? ;-) [more at TechCrunch] … Read entire article »
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Award for film about Tel-Aviv
‘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
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 »
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