The star and director of Gett: The Trial Of Viviane Amsalem has passed away following a prolonged battle with cancer.
Ronit Elkabetz, Israeli leading actress and director, has passed away at the age of 51, following a prolonged battle with cancer. She is survived by her husband and two three-year-old twins.
The daughter of a hairdresser and a postal employee, Elkabetz didn’t study acting, but broke into the profession in 1990 after an earlier career as a model.
In 1997 she moved to Paris to study acting with Ariane Mnouchkine, supporting herself as a waitress before she was invited to the famous Avignon Theatre Festival to do a one woman show on the life Martha Graham.
Her strong, powerful, outspoken personality and remarkable camera presence left an indelible mark from her very early films and TV performances. She threw herself into every part she assumed with a fierce, desperate commitment, that seemed to take possession of her whole...
Ronit Elkabetz, Israeli leading actress and director, has passed away at the age of 51, following a prolonged battle with cancer. She is survived by her husband and two three-year-old twins.
The daughter of a hairdresser and a postal employee, Elkabetz didn’t study acting, but broke into the profession in 1990 after an earlier career as a model.
In 1997 she moved to Paris to study acting with Ariane Mnouchkine, supporting herself as a waitress before she was invited to the famous Avignon Theatre Festival to do a one woman show on the life Martha Graham.
Her strong, powerful, outspoken personality and remarkable camera presence left an indelible mark from her very early films and TV performances. She threw herself into every part she assumed with a fierce, desperate commitment, that seemed to take possession of her whole...
- 4/19/2016
- by dfainaru@netvision.net.il (Edna Fainaru)
- ScreenDaily
According to local filmmakers, the recent suppression of documentary Beyond The Fear is just one episode in a quickening erosion of artistic freedom in Israel.
As Nanni Moretti’s Mia Madre began to roll on the opening night of the Jerusalem Film Festival in the picturesque Sultan’s Pool amphitheatre in early July, another screening was kicking off just metres above the spectators’ heads.
On a terrace overlooking the event, some 50 film-makers and producers had gathered for a protest screening of Maria Kravchenko and the late Herz Frank’s Beyond The Fear.
They included The Kindergarten Teacher director Nadav Lapid; Keren Yedaya, who won Cannes’ Camera d’Or for her debut work Or; Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, whose credits include the award-winning The Law In These Parts; and Shlomi Elkabetz, co-director of the Golden Globe-nominated Gett: The Trial Of Viviane Amsalem which premiered in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in May 2014 and went on to win best film at...
As Nanni Moretti’s Mia Madre began to roll on the opening night of the Jerusalem Film Festival in the picturesque Sultan’s Pool amphitheatre in early July, another screening was kicking off just metres above the spectators’ heads.
On a terrace overlooking the event, some 50 film-makers and producers had gathered for a protest screening of Maria Kravchenko and the late Herz Frank’s Beyond The Fear.
They included The Kindergarten Teacher director Nadav Lapid; Keren Yedaya, who won Cannes’ Camera d’Or for her debut work Or; Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, whose credits include the award-winning The Law In These Parts; and Shlomi Elkabetz, co-director of the Golden Globe-nominated Gett: The Trial Of Viviane Amsalem which premiered in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in May 2014 and went on to win best film at...
- 7/24/2015
- ScreenDaily
There are the 1960s, and then there is "the Sixties," and they only overlap to a degree. Popular culture and popular history have turned the Sixties in America into a dreamscape of mop-topped British invaders, painted hippies, an escalating war in Vietnam, a moon landing, and massive social unrest. But before the rise of the flower children, there were men in suits and short haircuts, women in conservative dresses, and chaste movie musicals dominating at the box office. And it's not like the counterculture obliterated the culture that had already existed. The psychedelic-inflected comedy of "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" was the highest rated show of the 1968-69 season, but the top 10 also included "Gomer Pyle," "Bonanza," "Mayberry Rfd," "Family Affair," "Gunsmoke," "The Dean Martin Show," "Here's Lucy" and "The Beverly Hillbillies." In 1969, the same year that The Beatles released "Abbey Road" and The Rolling Stones presented "Let It Bleed," aging Rat Pack...
- 4/2/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Documentary festival to focus on
DocAviv, Israel’s top documentary festival, has finalized the selection for its 17th edition (May 7-16).
With a solid reputation to defend, the festival will kick off with Laura Poitras’ Academy Award winner Citizenfour, whose theme, the onging Edward Snowden saga, fits one of the festival’s main concerns - “(un)Free World”.
Some 13 Israeli films have been selected to compete in the Docaviv Isreali Film Competition.
A total 11 world premieres are competing for The Sarah and Michael Sela Prize
The $18,000 (Nis 70,000) award is the largest prize for documentary filmmaking offered anywhere in Israel.
Some 75 Israeli films have been submitted to the Israeli competition. Well known names among the contenders include: Reuven Brodsky with 7 Days in St. Petersburg, whose previous film Home Movie has won the 2012 Docaviv competition, Avigail Sperber produced Girsa De’Yankuta by Noa Roth, Censored Voices by Mor Loushy which premiered in Sundance and Twilight of a Life, which...
DocAviv, Israel’s top documentary festival, has finalized the selection for its 17th edition (May 7-16).
With a solid reputation to defend, the festival will kick off with Laura Poitras’ Academy Award winner Citizenfour, whose theme, the onging Edward Snowden saga, fits one of the festival’s main concerns - “(un)Free World”.
Some 13 Israeli films have been selected to compete in the Docaviv Isreali Film Competition.
A total 11 world premieres are competing for The Sarah and Michael Sela Prize
The $18,000 (Nis 70,000) award is the largest prize for documentary filmmaking offered anywhere in Israel.
Some 75 Israeli films have been submitted to the Israeli competition. Well known names among the contenders include: Reuven Brodsky with 7 Days in St. Petersburg, whose previous film Home Movie has won the 2012 Docaviv competition, Avigail Sperber produced Girsa De’Yankuta by Noa Roth, Censored Voices by Mor Loushy which premiered in Sundance and Twilight of a Life, which...
- 4/2/2015
- by dfainaru@netvision.net.il (Edna Fainaru)
- ScreenDaily
Actress and filmmaker joined by four including Katell Quillévéré and Andréa Picard.
Israeli actress and filmmaker Ronit Elkabetz will preside over the jury of the 54th Semaine de la Critique in Cannes (May 14-22).
Elkabetz is something of a Critics’ Week regular having starred in Keren Yedaya’s 2004 feature Or and directed 2008 drama 7 Days (Shiva).
Her third film Gett, the Trial of Viviane Amsalem, selected at the Directors’ Fortnight in 2014, was nominated for the Golden Globes 2015 in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
Also on the jury are director Katell Quillévéré, DoP Peter Suschitzky, Toronto programmer Andréa Picard and journalist Boyd van Hoeij.
The jury will award three prizes: the Nespresso Grand Prize and the France 4 Visionary Award for feature films, the Sony CineAlta Discovery Prize for short films.
Israeli actress and filmmaker Ronit Elkabetz will preside over the jury of the 54th Semaine de la Critique in Cannes (May 14-22).
Elkabetz is something of a Critics’ Week regular having starred in Keren Yedaya’s 2004 feature Or and directed 2008 drama 7 Days (Shiva).
Her third film Gett, the Trial of Viviane Amsalem, selected at the Directors’ Fortnight in 2014, was nominated for the Golden Globes 2015 in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
Also on the jury are director Katell Quillévéré, DoP Peter Suschitzky, Toronto programmer Andréa Picard and journalist Boyd van Hoeij.
The jury will award three prizes: the Nespresso Grand Prize and the France 4 Visionary Award for feature films, the Sony CineAlta Discovery Prize for short films.
- 3/25/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Jose here. In Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, Israeli goddess Ronit Elkabetz returns to play a part she’s lived with for more than a decade. In 2004, Ronit and her brother Shlomi teamed up as writers and co-directors of a film trilogy that would concentrate on the experiences of a woman as seen through the roles society imposed on her. In the first installment, To Take a Wife, Viviane must deal with being trapped in a loveless marriage to her husband Elisha (Simon Abkarian), in 7 Days, Viviane must sit Shiva and come to terms with the fact that she is obligated to mourn despite not feeling pain. In Gett, which opened this weekend on the heels of its Golden Globe Foreign Film nomination (Oscar passed it by), Viviane is trying to gain her freedom from Elisha, but finds that practically impossible given that her husband hasn’t committed...
- 2/16/2015
- by Jose
- FilmExperience
The Seven Days of “Orphan Black” continues, as promised, and today it’s sexy scientist Cosima Niehaus (Tatiana Maslany – who else?) in the spotlight. Last we left off, Cosima had been digging deep into the science behind how she and her fellow clones were made and discovered the disturbing reality that Neolution owns the intellectual [...]
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- 2/27/2014
- by Linda Ge
- UpandComers
The seven days beginning on September 17 will be among the biggest in the career of character actor Giancarlo Esposito. On that night at 10 p.m., NBC debuts its new sci-fi series "Revolution," set in a near future where electricity has ceased to exist, in which Esposito plays Captain Tom Neville, enforcer for a dictatorship that's taken over a large chunk of what used to be America. On Sunday the 23rd, Esposito will attend the Emmys, where he's nominated for the first time ever (and the last for this role) as "Breaking Bad" drug kingpin Gus Fring. I sat down...
- 7/31/2012
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
One long and chaotic round of updates coming up.
Alessandra Torresani will make an apperance in the next episode of Warehouse 13, called "Shadows." It airs on Monday, September 12 at 9 pm. (Husbands premieres a day later, on Sept. 13.) Spoiler TV has the promotional photos. Teaser and clip embedded at the end of the post.
Ron Moore and Matt Roberts have a new project in the works. From Deadline:
ABC has bought drama pitch Hangtown, from Battlestar Galactica developer/executive producer Ron Moore and Caprica writer Matt Roberts. Sony Pictures TV, where Moore is under an overall deal, is producing. Described as a Western with a procedural overlay, Hangtown is set in the early 1900s in a frontier town that’s begun rapidly expanding with the coming of the railroad. It centers on three characters: the Marshal, a Matt Dillon/Clint Eastwood type who prefers to solve crimes by his...
Alessandra Torresani will make an apperance in the next episode of Warehouse 13, called "Shadows." It airs on Monday, September 12 at 9 pm. (Husbands premieres a day later, on Sept. 13.) Spoiler TV has the promotional photos. Teaser and clip embedded at the end of the post.
Ron Moore and Matt Roberts have a new project in the works. From Deadline:
ABC has bought drama pitch Hangtown, from Battlestar Galactica developer/executive producer Ron Moore and Caprica writer Matt Roberts. Sony Pictures TV, where Moore is under an overall deal, is producing. Described as a Western with a procedural overlay, Hangtown is set in the early 1900s in a frontier town that’s begun rapidly expanding with the coming of the railroad. It centers on three characters: the Marshal, a Matt Dillon/Clint Eastwood type who prefers to solve crimes by his...
- 9/4/2011
- by fanshawe
- CapricaTV
London, March 25 – British R and B singer Craig David has joined the global fight against TB after becoming the goodwill ambassador for a campaign to eradicate the deadly condition.
The Seven Days hitmaker, who has sales of more than 13 million albums to his credit, was appointed by the Stop TB Partnership at an event at the United Nations HQ in New York to mark World TB Day.
And the star wishes to do his bit in raising awareness about the disease that consumes nearly two million people annually.
“Music is a universal language. I believe that.
The Seven Days hitmaker, who has sales of more than 13 million albums to his credit, was appointed by the Stop TB Partnership at an event at the United Nations HQ in New York to mark World TB Day.
And the star wishes to do his bit in raising awareness about the disease that consumes nearly two million people annually.
“Music is a universal language. I believe that.
- 3/25/2010
- by News
- RealBollywood.com
The 2010 Atlanta Film Festival has announced its programming lineup, with the fest opening on April 15, 2010 with Stanley Nelson's "Freedom Riders" and closing on Friday April 23, 2010 with the Southeastern premiere of Barr Weissman's "The Secret to a Happy Ending." The seven days in between will present over 150 independent, international short, classic, documentary and animated films are show cased at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema, surrounded by ...
- 3/11/2010
- Indiewire
Shiva Directed by: Ronit & Shlomi Elkabetz Starring: Hana Azoulay-Hasfari, Ronit Elkabetz, Moshe Ivgy In their highly acclaimed co-directorial debut To Take a Wife, brother and sister team Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz examined the strained marriage between first generation Israelis from Morocco, Viviane (played by Ronit Elkabetz herself) and husband Eliyahu (Simon Abkarian). The couple is revisited in Shiva, the latest project by the Elkabetz siblings, which examines not only the tensions between Viviane and Eliahu but a whole family during the traditional seven days of mourning, following the death of Viviane's older brother, Maurice. During this period, family members are not permitted to leave the house and the intensity of this situation is a catalyst for more than just communal grief and support as jealousies, rivalries and the myriad complexities of family life are exposed.
- 8/18/2009
- FilmInk.com.au
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