1. Israel Academy Picks 'Bethlehem' as Ophir Winner and Foreign Oscar ...
Sep 28, 2013 · ... Oscar, reports Yair Raveh. That's because it won six Ophir Awards Saturday (Picture, Directing, Screenplay, Supporting Actor, Editing, Casting).
Israel Academy Picks 'Bethlehem' as Ophir Winner and Foreign Oscar Contender
2. Iran spins “Separation” Oscar as a victory over Israel - The Denver Post
Feb 27, 2012 · Iran hailed the country's first Oscar-winning film as a triumph over Israel on Monday after an Academy Award race with its own subplots.
Iran spins “Separation” Oscar as a victory over Israel
3. Films of faith - Fathom Journal
Sep 30, 2012 · Fill The Void is not alone. There is also Menny Yaish's God's Neighbors, which won the Best First Feature award at the Jerusalem Film Festival, ...
2012 will be remembered as the year in which Israeli movies finally found God. It's not often a film critic gets the chance to identify a major new trend unspooling before his eyes and to call ...
4. Tehran hails Oscar win as a victory over Israel - Taipei Times
Feb 29, 2012 · “It's very well acted, exceptionally well written and very moving,” Israeli film critic Yair Raveh said. “Ultimately you don't think about ...
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5. East meets West in film - Fathom Journal
Our film reviewer Yair Raveh explores representations of Ashkanazi and ... This was Israel's first Oscar nominee; it won the Golden Globe, it made ...
It is not only in politics and the street that Israel’s ethnic tensions surface. Our film reviewer Yair Raveh explores representations of Ashkanazi and Sephardic Jews in Israeli cinema, from the...
6. Early Controversy Over Israeli Oscar Entry - Deadline
Sep 23, 2007 · Israeli film critic Yair Raveh has been following the scandal on his blog (alas, in Hebrew) and reports that The Band's Visit producers ...
The Band’s Visit has just swept Israel’s Ophir Awards (the equivalent to that country’s Oscars) so this means it should be Israel’s submission for the Academy Award’s Best Foreign Language Film. But even with the Kodak Theater ceremony still 5 months away, there’s already controversy in this category. Rivals are claiming that the political movie, about an Egyptian police band that […]
7. Iran's Oscar win reveals Israeli movie-goers to be brainwashed ...
Feb 27, 2012 · Yair Raveh, film critic for Israel's leading entertainment magazine, Pnai Plus, said, “Ultimately you don't think about nuclear bombs or ...
Last night, the Iranian film A Separation took the Best Foreign Film Oscar. This AP article, picked up by the Washington Post, about Israeli reactions to the film reveals the sheer amount of…
8. Israel's Oscar Bid: 'Waltz With Bashir' - Deadline
Sep 23, 2008 · Israeli film blogger Yair Raveh tells me that this year Israel's ... Academy Awards so it automatically becomes that country's AMPAS Oscar pick.
You may recall that last year the Israeli Academy of Motion Pictures chose The Band’s Visit as the country’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar only to see it disqualified by the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for having too much English dialogue. The runner-up, Beaufort, then became the first Israeli […]
9. Turn Left at the End of the World - UK Jewish Film
In 2013, Nesher's film The Wonders was praised by film critic Yair Raveh (Cinemascope) who called it the best Israeli movie of the year. In 2016, Nesher wrote, ...
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10. Iran basks in Oscar glow after 'Separation' win
Feb 28, 2012 · Iran hailed the country's first Oscar-winning film as a triumph over arch-foe Israel on Monday after an Academy Award race with its own ...
Iran hailed the country’s first Oscar-winning film as a triumph over arch-foe Israel on Monday after an Academy Award race with its own subplots: Iranian officials giving a grudging nod to cinema and…
11. Israeli audiences flock to Iran's Oscar-winning A Separation
Feb 28, 2012 · Yair Raveh, a leading Israeli film critic who writes for the Pnai Plus entertainment magazine, said his countrymen were often surprised to ...
A Separation draws large audiences in Israel as director Asghar Farhadi's Oscar acceptance speech airs on Iranian state TV