The Gatekeepers: An Israeli Documentary
The Gatekeepers, an Israeli documentary by Dror Moreh is a coup most film makers could only dream of: not only …
The Gatekeepers, an Israeli documentary by Dror Moreh is a coup most film makers could only dream of: not only …
Trilogies are rare birds in the species we call movies. When they exist at all they seem to come from …
The Wedding Song [2008] is a deeply felt film of young women’s friendship under the extreme stress of wartime as …
I admit it. I’ve been on a bender lately reading about Turkey and watching movies made there, or by Turks …
A Separation, from Iran, is the most intense, informative, though claustrophobic, domestic drama you are likely to see in years. …
Three Monkeys — the famous three monkeys of not seeing, speaking or hearing– is a sorrowful, long-take, film of domestic …
I’m going on a trip to Turkey in a couple of months with some dear companions, so we’re doing a …
If there is a film director better at making movies about children than Majid Majidi of Iran, I don’t know …
Alhaam, a movie shot in Iraq in 2004 — during the full catastrophe of the US invasion and related Iraqi …
Immigration is big in the news these days – mostly the opposition to it– around the world. It is absolutely …
Many years ago I translated The Manuscript of a Crow, a short story by Spanish author Max Aub, the protagonist …
Comedies of family life have been a regular feature of movies and television in the US from the 1950s right …