Waltz With Bashir

Hollywood and Israel

Dovid Efune | Posted 10.29.2011

Dovid Efune

Since its founding in 1948, the relationship between America's royalty in Hollywood and Israel has been temperamental.

WATCH: ANIMATION ART: Most Innovative Film And Art Animation From The Past 10 Years

Posted 07.24.2011

From the big film screen to the small computer screen, the past ten years have seen a boom in animation- both in the film world and the fine art world...

A Waltz with President al Bashir of Sudan

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 05.25.2011

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

Typically, talking about a crime by an Arab leader in the Middle East, one will almost always end up talking about other concerned parties. It seems to be a special built-in ability to auto-dodge accountability.

CLOSED ZONE: 'Waltz With Bashir' Animator Makes Film On Gaza (VIDEO)

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- An Israeli creator of the Oscar-nominated "Waltz with Bashir" released a short film Wednesday about the effects of his country'...

Winslet, 'Waltz,' and How Hollywood Likes Its Jews

Bradley Burston | Posted 05.25.2011

Bradley Burston

Waltz with Bashir was not made for Hollywood, it was made for human beings. It was made for the people who went through the horror it shows.

Waltz with Bashir, Gaza, and the Post-Moral World

Bradley Burston | Posted 05.25.2011

Bradley Burston

Perhaps its time we surrendered to what we know to be true, Arab and Jew both: The leaders on both sides lie. That is their job. They resort to war to protect the lies.

Airport to Nowhere, Waltz with Bashir, Part 2

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

Tom Engelhardt

Part two of this exclusive excerpt from Waltz with Bashir takes up after Folman has managed to reconstruct his first days of the war in Lebanon.

Oscars: Best Foreign Language Film Nominees (POLL)

Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 05.25.2011

The biggest movie event of the year, The Oscars, is fast approaching, airing on February 22. Now is that time when movie aficionados flock to the the...

Waltz with Bashir: The Graphic Novel

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

Tom Engelhardt

Given the power and timeliness of this thoughtful, dreamlike memoir from a living hell, it's a particular honor to be releasing two long excerpts from the graphic novel version of Waltz with Bashir

Review: Waltz with Bashir (2008)

Scott Mendelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Scott Mendelson

The tragic, violent true-life tale that concerns Waltz with Bashir is rendered even more powerful in animated form than it would likely have in live-action.

Israel's Waltz with Injustice

Wajahat Ali | Posted 05.25.2011

Wajahat Ali

Waltz with Bashir, an autobiographical "animated documentary" from Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman, offers a sobering reminder of Israel's current, brutal military offensive in Gaza.

Waltz with Folman: Q & A with the Award Winning Director of Waltz With Bashir

Christal Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Christal Smith

Folman: This was always meant to be animated film -- in my imagination the characters were drawn -- there was no other way to do it.

Bashir's Ari Folman: 'They need to establish a Palestine'

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Marshall Fine

Ari Folman, looking both exhausted and still a little amazed, sits back in a hotel room chair and spreads his arms in a shrug. "I think I would not b...