The Question: What is Israel? And what do Americans think about the country? The Answer: That comes out in a new documentary by Doug Kooy called The Original Promise, which seeks to explore the many sides of the country. The filmmakers travel around Israel in search of what the country is. For their enlightening conclusions, [...]

Gal Gadot at the Maxim launchPhoto: Shahar Azran Israeli model Gal Gadot will be joining the cast of HBO’s hit series “Entourage”, according to a Ynet report. The article suggests that Gadot will play a girlfriend to main character Vince Chase for at least four episodes during the show’s upcoming sixth season. This role, and [...]

Photo: Sony Pictures Classics We’ve just learned that Waltz with Bashir, the Ari Folman documentary, has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. You can see the full list on the New York Times film blog and get more information on the movie from our previous posts. And tune in on 22 [...]

The residents of Sderot have been at the forefront of Israeli music for a long time (in fact, we blogged about here it about two years ago). Now, there’s a movie coming out about this phenomenon! It’s a really positive way for kids to deal with the difficulties they face–and allows kids to have fun [...]

Photo: Sony Pictures Classics, used with permission After posting yesterday, we remembered that we had forgotten to bring to your attention an interview in this week’s New York Times Magazine with Ari Folman, director of Waltz with Bashir. Suffice it to say, that’s an oversight on our part. The interview sheds a light of light [...]

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 [...]

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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.

Yehuda Levi (Jagger)Photo: Deror Avi for Wikimedia Commons Entertainment Weekly magazine has released its picks for the sexiest movies of all time–and included Eytan Fox’s acclaimed Yossi and Jagger (2003) on the list. Fox’s production ranks along such icons as The English Patient, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, and King Kong. We know Israeli [...]