Photo: Sony Pictures Classics, used with permission Well, the votes are in for the Golden Globes, and Waltz with Bashir and director Ari Folman came away with the award for best foreign film. CNN reports that Folman used his acceptance speech to call for peace in the region and a future that won’t look anything [...]

Photo: Sony Pictures Classics, used with permission Waltz With Bashir, the new Israeli movie by Ari Folman, will be opening in New York next week. In its list of the year’s ten best movies, New York Magazine, noted that the movie’s “fluid boundary between the real and surreal lifts it into the realm of myth” [...]

Photo: Getty Images “The Bubble,” a film by Eytan Fox and Gal Uchovsky, has scooped up four Glitter awards at the International Gay Film Awards, held this past weekend in Hollywood.

Photo: WikipediaUsed under Creative Commons license Rutu Modan, one of Israel’s most famous illustrators and comic book artists, won this year’s Eisner award for Best Graphic Album–New for her graphic novel Exit Wounds. The book tells the story of Koby Franco, a young man searching for his father, last seen at the site of a [...]

Photo: Getty Images Amos Oz’s autobiography A Tale of Love and Darkness has been named as one of the 50 best translations of the past fifty years by the British Translators Association. While they’re obviously nothing like reading books in the original, these translations can come pretty close. Besides have the additional benefit of making [...]