> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 94 8:25 +0300 > Message-id: <[log in to unmask]> I hope I made it this time. Harriet > From: <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > MIME-version: 1.0 > Content-type: Text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT > Subject: FILM IN ISRAEL > > Dear Patrick, > Sorry about the poor delivery. Let me try again. You asked why > most of the films on my list were of Anglo-American origin. Actually > two of them: FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE AND BLUE and WHITE ARE CHINESE > and Polish respectively. Kaige and Kieslowski. As there are about > 16 movie houses here you can see any day of the week a French, > Italian, German film. But as is true around the world, American > film and tv productions are all pervasive. > The English or Anglo connection (I hate this expression as English- > speakers here are all called anglo-saxons -but we won the war, > obviously I'm American is due the influence of the British Mandate > in Palestine, rapidly being replaced by the American one. > > As for the film SCHINDLER's LIST, I must say for myself, it was a > magnificently made film and I think the main reason for its > effectiveness was its restraint. But as this is a Jewish state, > there are a million opinions. The worst criticism I heard was the > fact that it wasn't a documentary and therefore not historically > correct. Of course it wasn't. But for people who perhaps seldom go > to movies but went to this one because of subject matter, I believe > they expected something drier and less"pretty". The Hebrew slang > word for kitsch is "hollywoodie".They applied this term to this > film. > > I would like to pass on two comments by two Holocaust survivors and > filmmakers as well: Ephraim Kishon (nominated twice for the Academy > Award for Best Foreign film) who wrote an article in the Jerusalem > Post entitled "Thank you,Thank you,Steven".He stated that Spielberg > got it all right. Roman Polanski stated in a Newsweek article, I > believe that only Spielberg could have made such a wonderful film. > He himself could never have done it. Meanwhile, it has been playing > continuously since December. > > A good film as an introduction to ISrael then is Kishon's Sallah Shabatai. > A good film for Israel now is "Tel Aviv Stories" 3 stories by 3 women > directors. > I hope this makes it. > Harriet Kasow > Video Librarian > Hebrew University, Jerusalem >