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Books: Oren ‘Tempts’ Israeli readers and defies critics
Avner Hofstein
November 2, 2007
Profile of Israeli novelist Ram Oren who has written 16 titles, sold more than 1 million copies in Israel and set up his own publishing house (Keshet).
Fox Takes ‘Walk’ Down Provocative Path
Tom Tugend
February 24, 2005
Israeli director Eytan Fox makes films that open on a rousing patriotic note of rugged Israelis battling the enemy, before gradually exposing the chinks in his country\’s macho culture.
‘Burial’ Unearths Small-Town Secrets
Rochelle Krich
July 15, 2004
Toward the end of Nicholas Racz\’s quirky, quiet, noirish thriller, \”The Burial Society,\” Sheldon Kasner, the film\’s protagonist but certainly not its hero, whines: \”Why can\’t anything ever be easy for me?\” It\’s a line Woody Allen might have used in \”Take the Money and Run,\” but while Sheldon has elements of Allen\’s nebbish-turned-wannabe-thief, he is darker, more complex and far craftier. So is Racz\’s film about death and rebirth, real and metaphoric.
Actor of ‘Favor’
Amy Klein
January 24, 2002
\”I am not Menachem.\” So says Israeli heartthrob Aki Avni, referring to his character in \”Time of Favor,\” the Israeli psychological thriller opening in Los Angeles movie theaters Feb 1. The film, winner of six Israeli Oscars last year, including picture of the year, tells the story of a religious settler army unit in which one student, Pini, takes to heart his rabbi\’s ideological rantings about the Temple Mount, and crazily decides to blow it up.
The Arts
Naomi Pfefferman
July 23, 1998
Debut filmmaker Darren Aronofsky manages to sound incredulous about the Jewish sci-fi flick that has made him a star. \”You don\’t think God, math and bad-ass Jews makes for a Hollywood movie?\” he quips of \”PI,\” which won the director\’s prize at Sundance and a $1 million distribution deal.
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