Skip to Content

Blog Archives

Man on the Train

  Milan arrives in a small town by train at the start of the week. The hotel is closed, but he finds accommodation through a chance meeting with a retired Read More

The Man Who Loved Women

  Bertrand Morane’s burial is attended by all the women the forty-year-old engineer loved. We then flash back to Bertrand’s life and love affairs, told by himself while writing an Read More

Manon of the Spring

  In this sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men whose greedy Read More

Purple Noon

  Tom Ripley (Alain Delon) travels to Italy to visit his playboy friend Phillippe Greenleaf (Maurice Ronet) and Phillippe’s new fiancée, Marge Duval (Marie Laforêt). What Phillippe doesn’t know is Read More

Aviya’s Summer

  Aviya’s Summer is set in the summer of 1951, in the newly established state of Israel. The film chronicles the life of ten-year-old Aviya, whose warm, loving, and fiercely Read More

The Troupe

  The Band, הלהקה, (also known as The Troupe) is an Israeli comedic musical, first shown in April 1978, about an army singing group in 1969. Three new members are Read More

Kippur

  An eye witness account of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, in which troops from Egypt and Syria chose one of the holiest days of the Jewish calendar to launch Read More

Late Summer Blues

  A group of close friends celebrate the bittersweet changes coming to their lives during the summer of their high-school graduation: adult responsibilities, adult romance — and the soberingly adult Read More

Sallah

  The film begins with Sallah Shabati, a Mizrahi Jewish immigrant, arriving in Israel by plane with his family: a very pregnant wife, an ancient female relative and seven children. Read More

He Walked Through the Fields

  In 1946, Uri (Assi Dayan) returns to his kibbutz after 2 years of studying. He begins to feel alienated after discovering that his mother is having an affair with Read More