Received: by HAR1.HUJI.AC.IL via SMTP(128.139.4.3) (HUyMail-V6l); Tue, 21 Jun 94 08:26:32 +0300 Received: by HUJIVMS (HUyMail-V6n); Tue, 21 Jun 94 08:27:09 +0300 Date: Tue, 21 Jun 94 8:26 +0300 From: Automatic answer system <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Problems delivering a message Your message could not be delivered to some or all of its recipients. The problem is: Address not found in table or nameserver. The erronous address was: [log in to unmask] If you have problems locating your addressee, try writing to POSTMASTER@HUJIVMS or INFO@HUJIVMS ----------------------------------- Received: by HAR1.HUJI.AC.IL (HUyMail-V6l); Tue, 21 Jun 94 08:25:49 +0300 Date: Tue, 21 Jun 94 8:25 +0300 Message-id: <[log in to unmask]> 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