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Waltz With Bashir

A Waltz with President al Bashir of Sudan

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 06.01.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Lebanon, Sabra and Shatilla, Radovan Karadzic Serbia, Serbia, Hezbollah, Sabra-and-Shatilla, Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, Waltz With Bashir, Hamas, Ratko Mladic, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Arabs, Sudan, Janjaweed Militia, Darfur Sudan, Israel, World News
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.

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

AP | Posted 04.04.2009 | World

Read More: The Oscars, Gaza Blockade, Yoni Goodman, Closed Zone, Gaza, Hamas, Gaza War, Yoni Goodman Gaza, Gisha, Video, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Yoni Goodman Closed Zone, Waltz With Bashir, Israel, Yoni Goodman Youtube, closedzone.com, Yoni Goodman Animation Film/Yuotube, Closed Zone Yoni Goodman, World News

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

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

Bradley Burston | Posted 03.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Israel, Holocaust, Bradley Burston, Oscars, Kate Winslet, Waltz With Bashir, Extras, Entertainment News
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.

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

Bradley Burston | Posted 03.07.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, World, Gaza, Middle East Politics, Golden Globes, Israeli Airstrikes, Waltz With Bashir, Gaza City, Film, Middle East Peace, Movies, Politics, Middle East, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Best Foreign Language Film, Israel, World News
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.

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Airport to Nowhere, Waltz with Bashir, Part 2

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 03.03.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Beirut, Lebanon, Gaza, Waltz With Bashir, Israel, Film, Ari Folman, Tomdispatch, Graphic Novels, Entertainment News
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.

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Oscars: Best Foreign Language Film Nominees (POLL)

Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 02.28.2009 | World

Read More: Best Foreign Language Film, Oscars, The Oscars, Oscars 2009, Movies, Foreign Films, Revanche, Waltz With Bashir, Departures, The Baader Meinhoff Complex, The Class, Oscars Best Foreign Film Nominees 2009, Poll, Oscars Foreign Film 2009, Foreign Films 2009, World News

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...

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Waltz with Bashir: The Graphic Novel

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 02.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Beirut, Lebanon, Waltz With Bashir, Film, Ari Folman, Books, Graphic Novels, Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch, Entertainment News
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

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Israel's Waltz with Injustice

Wajahat Ali | Posted 02.13.2009 | World

Read More: Gaza Crisis, Waltz With Bashir, Israel Gaza, Gaza, Waltz With Bashir Review, Waltz With Bashir Ari Folman, Israel, Ari Folman, Golden Globes, Israel-Palestinian Conflict, World News
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.

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Review: Waltz with Bashir (2008)

Scott Mendelson | Posted 02.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Politics, Review, Entertainment, War, Documentary, Waltz With Bashir, Israel, Movies, Animation, Entertainment News
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.

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

Christal Smith | Posted 02.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Lebanon, Waltz With Bashir, Ari Folman, Israel Lebanon War, Golden Globes, Movies, Entertainment News
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.

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

Marshall Fine | Posted 02.05.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Animated Documentary, Waltz With Bashir, Israel Lebanon War, Ari Folman, Movies, Marshall Fine Interview, Entertainment News
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...

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