Ari Folman

Airport to Nowhere, Waltz with Bashir, Part 2

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 03.03.2009 | Entertainment


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.

Waltz with Bashir: The Graphic Novel

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 02.24.2009 | Entertainment


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

Israel's Waltz with Injustice

Wajahat Ali | Posted 02.13.2009 | World


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 02.12.2009 | Entertainment


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 02.05.2009 | Entertainment


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...

Doomed To Repeat

Sheerly Avni | Posted 01.29.2009 | Entertainment


Sheerly Avni

Documentary Waltz With Bashir owes much of its visual impact to the director Ari Folman's animation team, but its dramatic tension derives from Folman's own search for his missing memories.