December 13, 2008
This video of Beit Leyvick is very informative of the Yiddish scene in Tel Aviv. I’m doing something myself there next Saturday.
But tonight I’m going to try again to see Waltz with Bashir.
SPOILER: Now I understand why Sharon Moldavi called me when he saw the pre-viewing of Waltz with Bashir and told me to run and see it. Early in the movie the animated protagonist asks his friend if he can draw him and his son playing in the snow. “As long as you don’t film it,” he answers. At the end, the widows and orphans of Sabra and Shatillah, real and not animated for the first time in the narrative, run towards the camera and an old lady shouts in Arabic, “FILM THIS!” This is a film that had to be made, a film that has to be shown, and one I really had to see.
Being in the Lev theater in Dizengoff reminded me of an earlier time we were there, in 2002, when a fire put me into a state of paralysis here. I was so wired that I was sure we were about to blow up, but it was only a fire in the mattress store. A little trauma can go a long way.
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