Shlomo Bar-Aba as Dov in the Israeli comedy Greener Pastures. one of films at the virtual 2022 St. Louis Jewish Film Festival. Courtesy of Israeli Films
In the delightfully funny Israeli comedy Greener Pastures, a retiree named Dov (Shlomo Bar-Aba) feels like he has been put out to pasture, and not a greener one. The widower grandpa in his 70s is dismayed that his daughter, who lives out of town, has moved him to a retirement home and out of the house he loves. A retired postal worker, he has been done out of his pension following privatization.
Greener Pastures is part of the 2022 St. Louis Jewish Film Festival, which is virtual again this year, meaning all films can be streamed through the festival website through March 13. For tickets and more information, visit their website https://jccstl.com/arts-ideas/st-louis-jewish-film-festival.
Sure, the retirement community he’s in is nice but it...
In the delightfully funny Israeli comedy Greener Pastures, a retiree named Dov (Shlomo Bar-Aba) feels like he has been put out to pasture, and not a greener one. The widower grandpa in his 70s is dismayed that his daughter, who lives out of town, has moved him to a retirement home and out of the house he loves. A retired postal worker, he has been done out of his pension following privatization.
Greener Pastures is part of the 2022 St. Louis Jewish Film Festival, which is virtual again this year, meaning all films can be streamed through the festival website through March 13. For tickets and more information, visit their website https://jccstl.com/arts-ideas/st-louis-jewish-film-festival.
Sure, the retirement community he’s in is nice but it...
- 3/13/2022
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Earlier this year, it was announced that Turner Classic Movies and the Criterion Collection — perhaps the two most trusted names in the distribution and exhibition of important classic and contemporary cinema — would be joining forces to create a streaming service dedicated to sharing their combined library with cinephiles around the world. For months, it sounded too good to be true. Today, it suddenly became as real as the screen in front of your face.
If the movies are truly as dead as they say, then FilmStruck is nothing short of heaven on Earth. It’s here, it’s alive, and hot damn has it come out of the gate swinging. Hundreds of essential titles are ready to go on launch day, and while hundreds more are imminently on the way, there’s already more than enough to satisfy whatever mood you’re in and scratch itches that you didn’t even know you had.
If the movies are truly as dead as they say, then FilmStruck is nothing short of heaven on Earth. It’s here, it’s alive, and hot damn has it come out of the gate swinging. Hundreds of essential titles are ready to go on launch day, and while hundreds more are imminently on the way, there’s already more than enough to satisfy whatever mood you’re in and scratch itches that you didn’t even know you had.
- 11/1/2016
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Title: Footnote Directed by: Joseph Cedar Cast: Shlomo Bar-Aba, Lior Ashkenazi and Aliza Rosen Lately, I’ve been watching a considerable amount of self- consciously quirky cinema that for the most part has been quite good, such as Submarine and Chicken with Plums. Using unusual music and playful photography, Director Joseph Cedar is attempting to explore important themes such as that of a father- son relationship and the jealousies that often come into play when each figure seeks to carve out his own way in life. Oftentimes, it’s for prestige, or something as simple as a happy family. In Footnote, it’s the latter. Eliezer Shkolnik is the quiet, reserved father who [ Read More ]...
- 8/4/2012
- by justin
- ShockYa
Garnering nearly universal acclaim and major award noms from the Academy, Independent Spirit, and Cannes last year, American born and Jerusalem raised director Joseph Cedar’s Footnote is worthy of props for its amusingly clever script, but the film as a whole is decidely lacking. A story of a rivaling father and son, both notable Talmudic Studies professors of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the film explores the absurdity of pride and the tension of unresolved faith in family, but within this tonally unstable charade, there is little to its characters to sink our teeth into, leaving a comedic conundrum of a story with a fleeting sense of tenor. Despite this, Cedar’s film is an amusing lark that weaves within the inane realm of academic accolades and out through the misgivings of intellectual remittance.
Year after year, Eliezer Shkolnik (Shlomo Bar-Aba) has been passed over for the prestigious Israel Prize,...
Year after year, Eliezer Shkolnik (Shlomo Bar-Aba) has been passed over for the prestigious Israel Prize,...
- 7/24/2012
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: July 24, 2012
Price: DVD $30.99, Blu-ray $35.99
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
The winner of nine 2011 Israeli Film Awards and Best Screenplay at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, Footnote explores the complicated relationship between a father and a son.
Written and directed by Joseph Cedar (Oscar-nominated Beaufort), the movie stars Shlomo Bar-Aba and Lior Ashkenazi as father and son Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik. Both are brilliant but eccentric professors who have dedicated their lives to Talmudic studies. Eliezer is a stubborn purist who fears the establishment and has never been recognized for his work. Uriel, however, is an up-and-coming star in the field, who enjoys accolades and endlessly seeks recognition.
One day, Eliezer hears that he’s going to be awarded the Isreal Prize, the most valuable honor in the country. His vanity and desperate need for validation are exposed. Uriel is happy for his father, but when he finds...
Price: DVD $30.99, Blu-ray $35.99
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
The winner of nine 2011 Israeli Film Awards and Best Screenplay at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, Footnote explores the complicated relationship between a father and a son.
Written and directed by Joseph Cedar (Oscar-nominated Beaufort), the movie stars Shlomo Bar-Aba and Lior Ashkenazi as father and son Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik. Both are brilliant but eccentric professors who have dedicated their lives to Talmudic studies. Eliezer is a stubborn purist who fears the establishment and has never been recognized for his work. Uriel, however, is an up-and-coming star in the field, who enjoys accolades and endlessly seeks recognition.
One day, Eliezer hears that he’s going to be awarded the Isreal Prize, the most valuable honor in the country. His vanity and desperate need for validation are exposed. Uriel is happy for his father, but when he finds...
- 5/29/2012
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
Footnote
Written by Joseph Cedar
Directed by Joseph Cedar
Israel, 2011
A tale of two Shkolniks, Joseph Cedar’s perfectly paced and wryly observed dramatic comedy follows father and son professors locked in a bitter rivalry. Uriel Shkolnik (Lior Ashkenazi), the son, is well on the path to greatness. A newly inducted member of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences, renowned lecturer, and physically imposing figure, he’s the polar opposite of his father. Eliezer Shkolnik (Shlomo Bar-Aba) is taciturn, socially awkward, and consistently shunned for public recognition…until he receives word that he’s finally – after 20 years of rejection – been awarded a prestigious Israel Prize. The announcement brings plenty of past resentments to light.
Featuring dazzling montages that make great use of slide projectors, newspaper typography, photographs, and any other type of archival material imaginable, Footnote is very much about cataloging. Where both men have devoted their lives to some sort of historicism,...
Written by Joseph Cedar
Directed by Joseph Cedar
Israel, 2011
A tale of two Shkolniks, Joseph Cedar’s perfectly paced and wryly observed dramatic comedy follows father and son professors locked in a bitter rivalry. Uriel Shkolnik (Lior Ashkenazi), the son, is well on the path to greatness. A newly inducted member of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences, renowned lecturer, and physically imposing figure, he’s the polar opposite of his father. Eliezer Shkolnik (Shlomo Bar-Aba) is taciturn, socially awkward, and consistently shunned for public recognition…until he receives word that he’s finally – after 20 years of rejection – been awarded a prestigious Israel Prize. The announcement brings plenty of past resentments to light.
Featuring dazzling montages that make great use of slide projectors, newspaper typography, photographs, and any other type of archival material imaginable, Footnote is very much about cataloging. Where both men have devoted their lives to some sort of historicism,...
- 4/22/2012
- by Neal Dhand
- SoundOnSight
Eliezer Shkolnik (Shlomo Bar-Aba) is the father. Uriel Shkolnik (Lior Ashkenazi) is the son. Both are highly regarded professors in the field of Talmudic studies. We begin with Eliezer, a disgruntled participant in an auspicious award ceremony celebrating his son Uriel’s accomplishments in the study of the Talmud. To put it simply: Eliezer is damn jealous of his son’s success. Stranger still, Eliezer appears to have been the man pushing his son toward the proverbial family business. Life becomes more complicated when a mistake regarding the recipient of the prestigious Israel Prize results in said prize being awarded to the wrong Shkolnik. Drama and a bit of light comedy ensue, with the Shkolnik family thrown into a tizzy, and a passive-aggressive father-son relationship becomes even more . . . passive-aggressive.
- 4/14/2012
- by Dirk Sonniksen
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
I've long been a fan of foreign films, but often feel alienated by films that focus on Jewish culture due to my own ignorance and unfamiliarity. I was hesitant about viewing Footnote, which is centered around two characters involved in Talmudic studies, but as the Israeli official selection to the Best Foreign Language Film category for this year's Oscars I felt this film might provide me with much needed insight. I was pleasantly surprised not just by the content and narrative, but the filmmaking in this award-winning movie.
The main theme of Footnote is rivalvry between men -- most notably that of father and son Eliezer (Shlomo Bar-Aba) and Uriel Shkolnik (Lior Ashkenazi), both professors in the Talmud department of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Eliezer is a philologist, studying the historical language of the Talmud. On the brink of the publication of groundbreaking research that has taken over 30 years, his...
The main theme of Footnote is rivalvry between men -- most notably that of father and son Eliezer (Shlomo Bar-Aba) and Uriel Shkolnik (Lior Ashkenazi), both professors in the Talmud department of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Eliezer is a philologist, studying the historical language of the Talmud. On the brink of the publication of groundbreaking research that has taken over 30 years, his...
- 4/12/2012
- by Debbie Cerda
- Slackerwood
At the end of each month, the Sound On Sight staff will band together to write an article about their favourite scenes in films released. Here are our favourite scenes from the month of February.
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Once Upon A Time In Anatolia – Opening Scene
Nuri Bilge Ceylan is without a doubt one of the most exciting directors on the international scene. His sixth feature, Once Upon A Time In Anatolia won the Grand Prize at Cannes last year and it is easy to see why. This metaphysical road movie about life, death and the limits of knowledge opens with a brief prologue, a slow, steady out of focus zoom through a service station’s dirty window, eventually shifting into focus revealing a room where three guys eat, drink and converse. It seems like a simple setup but...
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Once Upon A Time In Anatolia – Opening Scene
Nuri Bilge Ceylan is without a doubt one of the most exciting directors on the international scene. His sixth feature, Once Upon A Time In Anatolia won the Grand Prize at Cannes last year and it is easy to see why. This metaphysical road movie about life, death and the limits of knowledge opens with a brief prologue, a slow, steady out of focus zoom through a service station’s dirty window, eventually shifting into focus revealing a room where three guys eat, drink and converse. It seems like a simple setup but...
- 4/5/2012
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Even in the world of academia, nice guys finish last. Or so suggests Joseph Cedar’s bitterly hilarious “Footnote,” a Best Foreign Film Oscar nominee set in the tightly-knit and apparently fiercely combative world of Talmud scholarship. It’s the kind of movie that tells us enough about the characters early on so that we know exactly how much to squirm with each plot development. Uriel Shkolnik (Lior Ashkenazi) is a popular star in his academic circles, much to the unspoken resentment of his father Eliezer (Shlomo Bar-Aba). Where Uriel is personable and camera-ready,...
- 3/9/2012
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Indiewire got to speak with all the 2012 Best Foreign Language Feature Film Academy Award nominees over the last year; get to know the filmmakers and their films by checking out our profiles below, ahead of this Sunday's awards ceremony. Joseph Cedar, "Footnote" Israeli writer-director Joseph Cedar, Oscar-nominated for his tense war movie "Beaufort," will be back at the Kodak Theater this Sunday for "Footnote." Not bad for a filmmaker with only four features to his name. "Footnote" concerns a father and his grown son, both professors, who work in Talmudic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The father, Eliezer (Shlomo Bar-Aba), is a stubborn purist, while his son Uriel (Lior Ashkenazi) is anything but. Despite Eliezer's seniority, Uriel is more popular among academics and students. So imagine the surprise when it's announced that Eliezer will receive the Israel Prize, the most valuable honor for scholarship...
- 2/23/2012
- by Indiewire Staff
- Indiewire
Israeli writer-director Joseph Cedar, Oscar-nominated for his tense war movie "Beaufort," will be back at the Kodak Theater this Sunday for "Footnote." Not bad for a filmmaker with only four features to his name. "Footnote" concerns a father and his grown son, both professors, who work in Talmudic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The father, Eliezer (Shlomo Bar-Aba), is a stubborn purist, while his son Uriel (Lior Ashkenazi) is anything but. Despite Eliezer's seniority, Uriel is more popular among academics and students. So imagine the surprise when it's announced that Eliezer will receive the Israel Prize, the most valuable honor for scholarship in the country, over his more successful son. But as it turns out, everything is not as it seems. As Eric Kohn wrote in his review out of Cannes, where the film world premiered earlier this year, "Its focus on stuck-up academics makes 'Footnote' an enjoyable,...
- 2/22/2012
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
Title: Footnote Sony Pictures Classics Review by: Harvey Karten Director: Joseph Cedar Screenwriter: Joseph Cedar Cast: Shlomo Bar-Aba, Lior Ashkenazi, Amiza Rosen, Micah Lewesohn, Alma Zack, Daniel Markovich, Yuval Scharf, Nevo Kimchi Screened at: Sony, NYC, 1/3/12 Opens: March 9, 2012 When Abraham seemed all-too-ready to sacrifice his son Isaac per heavenly command, we note that if he were living in our own modern times, he would be jailed for child abuse and not considered a hero for obeying the Almighty. Subjecting the intended sacrifice to free interpretation, we might conclude that the relationships of fathers to sons–especially given the updated work by Sigmund Freud–is not entirely beatific. While there...
- 2/17/2012
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
New featurettes, clips from Academy Award nominee Footnote, starring Lior Ashkenazi, Yuval Scharf and Shlomo Bar-Aba Catch several new clips as well as four featurettes, all available in high definition for the film helmed and scripted by Joseph Cedar. Nevo Kimchi, Alma Zack and Albert Iluz also star in the film which was just today nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film of the Year category for Israel. Pic film opens via Sony Pictures Classics on March 9th. Footnote is the story of a great rivalry between a father and son, both eccentric professors in the Talmud department of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The son has an addictive dependency on the embrace and accolades that the establishment provides, while his father is a stubborn purist with a fear and profound revulsion for what the establishment stands for, yet beneath his contempt lies...
- 1/24/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
New featurettes, clips from Academy Award nominee Footnote, starring Lior Ashkenazi, Yuval Scharf and Shlomo Bar-Aba Catch several new clips as well as four featurettes, all available in high definition for the film helmed and scripted by Joseph Cedar. Nevo Kimchi, Alma Zack and Albert Iluz also star in the film which was just today nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film of the Year category for Israel. Pic film opens via Sony Pictures Classics on March 9th. Footnote is the story of a great rivalry between a father and son, both eccentric professors in the Talmud department of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The son has an addictive dependency on the embrace and accolades that the establishment provides, while his father is a stubborn purist with a fear and profound revulsion for what the establishment stands for, yet beneath his contempt lies...
- 1/24/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
New featurettes, clips from Academy Award nominee Footnote, starring Lior Ashkenazi, Yuval Scharf and Shlomo Bar-Aba Catch several new clips as well as four featurettes, all available in high definition for the film helmed and scripted by Joseph Cedar. Nevo Kimchi, Alma Zack and Albert Iluz also star in the film which was just today nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film of the Year category for Israel. Pic film opens via Sony Pictures Classics on March 9th. Footnote is the story of a great rivalry between a father and son, both eccentric professors in the Talmud department of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The son has an addictive dependency on the embrace and accolades that the establishment provides, while his father is a stubborn purist with a fear and profound revulsion for what the establishment stands for, yet beneath his contempt lies...
- 1/24/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Watch: Trailers for the 9 Shortlisted Best Foreign Oscar Contenders (Now With Convenient Subtitles!)
A little over a year after jailing and banning their most famous filmmaker from making movies, Iran might win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It would be a first for the nation whose government seems to strongly dislike creativity and freedom of speech, but its entry this year, A Separation, almost seems like a sure thing. Come February, writer/director Asghar Farhadi and Iran might be standing on the winner’s podium. But it’s not a done deal yet. A Separation and 8 other films were announced last week as part of the Oscar shortlist – just one step away from becoming an official nominee. They include a Danish comedy set in Argentina, a masculine drama about the underground world of illegal bovine growth hormones in Belgium, and something marvelous from Wim Wenders. It’s, to say the least, a varied group. Except that almost all of them are dramas from writer/directors. So...
- 1/23/2012
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Trailer for Joseph Cedar's Footnote dramedy, starring Lior Ashkenazi, Yuval Scharf and Shlomo Bar-Aba. Having previously added several movie clips from the Sony Pictures Classics release, we are pleased to offer you the trailer for the winner of the best screenplay, and nominee at the Palm d'Or prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Also in the cast of Footnote are Shlomo Bar-Aba, Nevo Kimchi, Alma Zack and Albert Iluz. Footnote is the story of a great rivalry between a father and son, both eccentric professors in the Talmud department of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The son has an addictive dependency on the embrace and accolades that the establishment provides, while his father is a stubborn purist with a fear and profound revulsion for what the establishment stands for, yet beneath...
- 11/17/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Trailer for Joseph Cedar's Footnote dramedy, starring Lior Ashkenazi, Yuval Scharf and Shlomo Bar-Aba. Having previously added several movie clips from the Sony Pictures Classics release, we are pleased to offer you the trailer for the winner of the best screenplay, and nominee at the Palm d'Or prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Also in the cast of Footnote are Shlomo Bar-Aba, Nevo Kimchi, Alma Zack and Albert Iluz. Footnote is the story of a great rivalry between a father and son, both eccentric professors in the Talmud department of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The son has an addictive dependency on the embrace and accolades that the establishment provides, while his father is a stubborn purist with a fear and profound revulsion for what the establishment stands for, yet beneath...
- 11/17/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Trailer for Joseph Cedar's Footnote dramedy, starring Lior Ashkenazi, Yuval Scharf and Shlomo Bar-Aba. Having previously added several movie clips from the Sony Pictures Classics release, we are pleased to offer you the trailer for the winner of the best screenplay, and nominee at the Palm d'Or prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Also in the cast of Footnote are Shlomo Bar-Aba, Nevo Kimchi, Alma Zack and Albert Iluz. Footnote is the story of a great rivalry between a father and son, both eccentric professors in the Talmud department of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The son has an addictive dependency on the embrace and accolades that the establishment provides, while his father is a stubborn purist with a fear and profound revulsion for what the establishment stands for, yet beneath...
- 11/17/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Rivalry in the field of Talmudic studies may not seem like the most compelling premise for a feature film but perhaps the greatest surprise in Joseph Cedar’s Footnote is that the basics of the story, embittered personal politics and family divides amongst Talmudic scholars, is by far the film’s greatest strength.
At the centre of the confusion and resentment that provides the film’s reasonably brisk forward narrative drive are father, Eliezer Shkolnik (Shlomo Bar-aba), and son, Uriel Shkolnik (Lior Ashkenazi); the former a washed up scholar who clings to a footnote in his past and the latter a successful and dare I say hip young Talmudic professor. Eliezer looks down on his son’s work, believing it to be lacking real substance whilst the son struggles to connect to his curmudgeon father who seems unable to connect with the world around him.
Writer/director Joseph Cedar does...
At the centre of the confusion and resentment that provides the film’s reasonably brisk forward narrative drive are father, Eliezer Shkolnik (Shlomo Bar-aba), and son, Uriel Shkolnik (Lior Ashkenazi); the former a washed up scholar who clings to a footnote in his past and the latter a successful and dare I say hip young Talmudic professor. Eliezer looks down on his son’s work, believing it to be lacking real substance whilst the son struggles to connect to his curmudgeon father who seems unable to connect with the world around him.
Writer/director Joseph Cedar does...
- 10/24/2011
- by Craig Skinner
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Clips from Sony Pictures Classics' Footnote, directed by Joseph Cedar. Stars Lior Ashkenazi and Yuval Scharf. The story of a great rivalry between a father and son, both eccentric professors in the Talmud department of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The son has an addictive dependency on the embrace and accolades that the establishment provides, while his father is a stubborn purist with a fear and profound revulsion for what the establishment stands for, yet beneath his contempt lies a desperate thirst for some kind of recognition. The Israel Prize, Israel's most prestigious national award, is the jewel that brings these two to a final, bitter confrontation. Also in the cast of Footnote are Shlomo Bar-Aba, Nevo Kimchi, Alma Zack and Albert Iluz. The drama was seent at this year's Cannes Film Festival is helmed and scripted by Joseph Cedar. Check out the Official Site here after the new clips below.
- 9/12/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Clips from Sony Pictures Classics' Footnote, directed by Joseph Cedar. Stars Lior Ashkenazi and Yuval Scharf. The story of a great rivalry between a father and son, both eccentric professors in the Talmud department of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The son has an addictive dependency on the embrace and accolades that the establishment provides, while his father is a stubborn purist with a fear and profound revulsion for what the establishment stands for, yet beneath his contempt lies a desperate thirst for some kind of recognition. The Israel Prize, Israel's most prestigious national award, is the jewel that brings these two to a final, bitter confrontation. Also in the cast of Footnote are Shlomo Bar-Aba, Nevo Kimchi, Alma Zack and Albert Iluz. The drama was seent at this year's Cannes Film Festival is helmed and scripted by Joseph Cedar. Check out the Official Site here after the new clips below.
- 9/12/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See a new clip from Footnote, starring Lior Ashkenazi, Yuval Scharf and Shlomo Bar-Aba The drama distributed by Sony Pictures Classics was the winner of the Best Screenplay Award and nominee of the Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Also called Hearat Shulayim, Footnote is the story of a great rivalry between a father and son, both eccentric professors in the Talmud department of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The son has an addictive dependency on the embrace and accolades that the establishment provides, while his father is a stubborn purist with a fear and profound revulsion for what the establishment stands for, yet beneath his contempt lies a desperate thirst for some kind of recognition.
- 9/9/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See a new clip from Footnote, starring Lior Ashkenazi, Yuval Scharf and Shlomo Bar-Aba The drama distributed by Sony Pictures Classics was the winner of the Best Screenplay Award and nominee of the Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Also called Hearat Shulayim, Footnote is the story of a great rivalry between a father and son, both eccentric professors in the Talmud department of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The son has an addictive dependency on the embrace and accolades that the establishment provides, while his father is a stubborn purist with a fear and profound revulsion for what the establishment stands for, yet beneath his contempt lies a desperate thirst for some kind of recognition.
- 9/9/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Rivalry in the field of Talmudic studies may not seem like the most compelling premise for a feature film but perhaps the greatest surprise in Joseph Cedar’s Footnote is that the basics of the story, embittered personal politics and family divides amongst Talmudic scholars, is by far the film’s greatest strength.
At the centre of the confusion and resentment that provides the film’s reasonably brisk forward narrative drive are father, Eliezer Shkolnik (Shlomo Bar-aba), and son, Uriel Shkolnik (Lior Ashkenazi); the former a washed up scholar who clings to a footnote in his past and the latter a successful and dare I say hip young Talmudic professor. Eliezer looks down on his son’s work, believing it to be lacking real substance whilst the son struggles to connect to his curmudgeon father who seems unable to connect with the world around him.
Writer/director Joseph Cedar does...
At the centre of the confusion and resentment that provides the film’s reasonably brisk forward narrative drive are father, Eliezer Shkolnik (Shlomo Bar-aba), and son, Uriel Shkolnik (Lior Ashkenazi); the former a washed up scholar who clings to a footnote in his past and the latter a successful and dare I say hip young Talmudic professor. Eliezer looks down on his son’s work, believing it to be lacking real substance whilst the son struggles to connect to his curmudgeon father who seems unable to connect with the world around him.
Writer/director Joseph Cedar does...
- 5/20/2011
- by Craig Skinner
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Daring and funny, a French love letter to 1920s Hollywood gets a standing ovation from Peter Bradshaw
Until yesterday, a British contender – Lynne Ramsay, with We Need to Talk About Kevin – seemed to be cantering ahead in the race for the Palme d'Or. But now Terrence Malick has shot out of the starting gate with The Tree of Life – and yet another film, in my view, is galloping ahead. Frenchman Michel Hazanavicius's glorious picture The Artist is a formally daring and sublimely funny movie about the end of silent movies in 1920s Hollywood. It is itself silent and in black and white, with inter-titles and a full, continuous orchestral score. Endlessly inventive, packed with clever sight-gags and rich in stunningly achieved detail, The Artist is a pastiche and a passionate love letter to the silent age; it takes the silent movie seriously as a specific form, rather than as obsolete technology,...
Until yesterday, a British contender – Lynne Ramsay, with We Need to Talk About Kevin – seemed to be cantering ahead in the race for the Palme d'Or. But now Terrence Malick has shot out of the starting gate with The Tree of Life – and yet another film, in my view, is galloping ahead. Frenchman Michel Hazanavicius's glorious picture The Artist is a formally daring and sublimely funny movie about the end of silent movies in 1920s Hollywood. It is itself silent and in black and white, with inter-titles and a full, continuous orchestral score. Endlessly inventive, packed with clever sight-gags and rich in stunningly achieved detail, The Artist is a pastiche and a passionate love letter to the silent age; it takes the silent movie seriously as a specific form, rather than as obsolete technology,...
- 5/16/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
I'm not sure if it built into the buzz for wanting to see the title, but when Sony Pictures Classics picked up domestic rights to Joseph Cedar's Footnote hours before the early press screening to a film about a bitter father-son rivalry tagged with academic jealousy my thoughts were this could be a contender. An unrecognizable Lior Ashkenazi plays the son without much an ax to grind, or at least this is how his character is sold for the majority of the film, while his father, an unlikable character with a detestable straight-face played by Shlomo Bar-Aba has a serious chip on his shoulder against just about everyone in and outside of the establishment. Cedar combines an Amelie imaginativeness and shuffles the timeline here to the film's advantage, but by the looks of it our panel didn't seem all too impressed by what could be considered an exercise in style and storytelling.
- 5/14/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
Sony Pictures Classics today announced its acquisition of North American and Latin American rights to Joseph Cedar’s Palme d’Or contending “Footnote” from the 2011 Festival de Cannes program.
The latest film from the Israeli director of “Beaufort” (nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in 2008) is described as a story about two professors, father (Shlomo Bar-Aba) and son (Lior Ashkenazi), competing with each other for a prestigious award, a process that reveals their need for external recognition from the world at large, and from each other.
Here’s the teaser for the film:
–Elliot V. Kotek
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The latest film from the Israeli director of “Beaufort” (nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in 2008) is described as a story about two professors, father (Shlomo Bar-Aba) and son (Lior Ashkenazi), competing with each other for a prestigious award, a process that reveals their need for external recognition from the world at large, and from each other.
Here’s the teaser for the film:
–Elliot V. Kotek
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- 5/14/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Sony Pictures Classics today announced its acquisition of North American and Latin American rights to Joseph Cedar’s Palme d’Or contending “Footnote” from the 2011 Festival de Cannes program.
The latest film from the Israeli director of “Beaufort” (nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in 2008) is described as a story about two professors, father (Shlomo Bar-Aba) and son (Lior Ashkenazi), competing with each other for a prestigious award, a process that reveals their need for external recognition from the world at large, and from each other.
Here’s the teaser for the film:
–Elliot V. Kotek
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The latest film from the Israeli director of “Beaufort” (nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in 2008) is described as a story about two professors, father (Shlomo Bar-Aba) and son (Lior Ashkenazi), competing with each other for a prestigious award, a process that reveals their need for external recognition from the world at large, and from each other.
Here’s the teaser for the film:
–Elliot V. Kotek
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- 5/14/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
The longstanding art-house distributor Sony Pictures Classics joined the Cannes Film Festival buyers club with its purchase of director Joseph Cedar’s father/son drama Footnote. According to Variety, Sony Pictures Classics bought North American and Latin American rights to the Israeli drama Footnote from WestEnd Films. Cedar also wrote the drama, about two eccentric professors, Uriel (Lior Ashkenazi), and his father Eliezer (Shlomo Bar Aba) whose dysfunctional relationship reaches the breaking point over an award.
- 5/13/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Sony Pictures Classics has made its first purchase of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, acquiring North American and Latin American rights to Israeli director Joseph Cedar's "Footnote," which is screening as part of the festival's main competition. "Footnote" (or "Hearat Shulayim") is the story of a rivalry between a father and son who are both Talmud professors at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the father a purist and the son ambitious and anxious for recognition. Lior Ashkenazi and Shlomo Bar-Aba star. This is the first Cannes acquisition for Spc's Tom Bernard and Michael...
- 5/13/2011
- The Wrap
Updated through 4/20.
Gilles Jacob and Thierry Frémaux announced that, out of 1715 submissions, 49 features from 33 countries have been selected in total for this year's Cannes Film Festival — four of them made by women, a record. 19 titles are lined up for the Competition so far, leaving room for surprise announcements from here on to the Opening Ceremony on May 11.
Competition
Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Inhabit. As noted yesterday, here's what Variety's Justin Chang had heard as of this past weekend: "In late March, it seemed that Almodóvar, a Cannes veteran who won prizes for All About My Mother and Volver, might skip the event altogether this year. Since 2004's Bad Education, the helmer has presented every one of his films in competition at the May fest, usually following a spring local release. The Sept 2 Spanish release date for The Skin That I Inhabit (which Sony Classics will release Stateside in...
Gilles Jacob and Thierry Frémaux announced that, out of 1715 submissions, 49 features from 33 countries have been selected in total for this year's Cannes Film Festival — four of them made by women, a record. 19 titles are lined up for the Competition so far, leaving room for surprise announcements from here on to the Opening Ceremony on May 11.
Competition
Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Inhabit. As noted yesterday, here's what Variety's Justin Chang had heard as of this past weekend: "In late March, it seemed that Almodóvar, a Cannes veteran who won prizes for All About My Mother and Volver, might skip the event altogether this year. Since 2004's Bad Education, the helmer has presented every one of his films in competition at the May fest, usually following a spring local release. The Sept 2 Spanish release date for The Skin That I Inhabit (which Sony Classics will release Stateside in...
- 4/21/2011
- MUBI
Time for a story of insane competition, the admiration and envy for a role model, bringing father and son to a final, bitter confrontation.
That’s exactly a description of Footnote, Israeli drama directed by Joseph Cedar, that is, as you already know from our previous reports, scheduled to premiere In Competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. So check it out.
Footnote is “…the story of a great rivalry between a father and son. Both eccentric professors have dedicated their lives to their work. The father seems a stubborn purist who fears the establishment.
His son, Uriel, appears to strive on accolades, endlessly seeking recognition. But one day, the tables turn. The two men switch places when the father learns he is to be awarded the most valuable honour one can receive. His desperate need for recognition is betrayed, his vanity exposed. Uriel is torn between pride and envy.
That’s exactly a description of Footnote, Israeli drama directed by Joseph Cedar, that is, as you already know from our previous reports, scheduled to premiere In Competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. So check it out.
Footnote is “…the story of a great rivalry between a father and son. Both eccentric professors have dedicated their lives to their work. The father seems a stubborn purist who fears the establishment.
His son, Uriel, appears to strive on accolades, endlessly seeking recognition. But one day, the tables turn. The two men switch places when the father learns he is to be awarded the most valuable honour one can receive. His desperate need for recognition is betrayed, his vanity exposed. Uriel is torn between pride and envy.
- 4/19/2011
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
Today’s reveal of the excellent lineup for the 2011 Cannes Film Festival is an appropriate way to kick off this news story, which has early looks at a few of the movies that’ll be playing there this coming May.
First, we have the trailer for Australia’s Sleeping Beauty. Written and directed by novelist Julia Leigh – who’s making her filmmaking debut – and presented by director Jane Campion, it stars Sucker Punch‘s Emily Browning. The association with that film wouldn’t give you an idea of what to expect, though; this has a very dark vibe to it, one that almost reminds me of the works of Michael Haneke. Described as “a haunting erotic fairytale about Lucy, a young University student drawn into a mysterious hidden world of beauty and desire,” this looks pretty interesting. It’ll premiere at the festival, and in competition. The preview showed up...
First, we have the trailer for Australia’s Sleeping Beauty. Written and directed by novelist Julia Leigh – who’s making her filmmaking debut – and presented by director Jane Campion, it stars Sucker Punch‘s Emily Browning. The association with that film wouldn’t give you an idea of what to expect, though; this has a very dark vibe to it, one that almost reminds me of the works of Michael Haneke. Described as “a haunting erotic fairytale about Lucy, a young University student drawn into a mysterious hidden world of beauty and desire,” this looks pretty interesting. It’ll premiere at the festival, and in competition. The preview showed up...
- 4/14/2011
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
In the past few months, there has been a handful of Israeli films that were released locally but took a plunge at the box office as of the opening weekend. Most critics warmly welcomed most films, but the audience didn't. The Israeli movie industry is puzzled as to the sudden change in taste on the part of its public. Perhaps the movies this year were rather good, but far from the artistic heights of Beaufort or Waltz with Bashir. Maybe it's because most films this year were adaptations of books, and the Israeli viewer is reluctant to see those on the screen (in previous years most Israeli films were written directly for the screen.; Maybe it's the concentration of too much Israeli releases in a relatively short time (usually, most Israeli releases are scheduled for the Summer season, aiming to profit from the media attention they get from screenings in...
- 12/13/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
There are a number of new projects by the more established filmmakers that are currently in the post-production phases, the most anticipated is perhaps The Band's Visit's Eran Kolirin, who is in the editing stages of The Exchange. - Israeli Film Scene: Local The Israeli film scene appears to be in a hibernation mode right now. "Appears to be" – but isn't necessarily. There is only one Israeli film in local theaters now – it is Phobidilia by the Paz brothers. Based on a book by Izhar Harlev, "Phobidilia" tells the story of a young man, once a high-tech genius, now an agoraphobic. After spending the last couple of years of his life inside his apartment, and never leaving it, he is faced with the biggest challenge ever: A young and beautiful girl enters his life, and his landlord wishes to evacuate him. Both destabilize his life, and tranquility is shattered.
- 4/6/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
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