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Benicio del Toro and Mia Threapleton in a still from ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ in theaters on Friday

The Magnificent Wes Anderson: Why 'The Phoenician Scheme' is my fave since 'Grand Budapest'

E. Nina Rothe May 20, 2025

At the core of his latest film, Anderson, along with co-writer Roman Coppola and leading man Benicio de Toro, has created a wonderfully entertaining antihero of contradictions: European yet eerily Trumpian, bigger than life yet soft spoken, bearing many passports yet without a fixed address, a self professed diplomat who carries a crate of hand-grenades — just in case they are needed. And more often than not, they are.

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In Film Festivals, Film, review Tags Wes Anderson, Benicio del Toro, Universal, Focus Features, Middle East, The Phoenician Scheme, Cannes Film Festival, Competition, Benedict Cumberbatch, Fouad Malouf, Milena Canonero, Adam Stockhausen, Jasper Sharp, Alexandre Desplat, Cartier, Prada, Dunhill, Juman Malouf, Studio Babelsberg, Tom Hanks, Riz Ahmed, Bryan Cranston, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Scarlett Johansson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bill Murray, Michael Cera, Mia Threapleton, Roman Coppola
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Peace is a co-production: Amos Gitai, Irene Jacob and Micha Lescot talk 'Why War' in Venice

E. Nina Rothe September 6, 2024

In his latest film, a crucial masterpiece titled ‘Why War’, Amos Gitai reminds us of an exchange of letters between Sigmund Freud, the father of modern psychoanalysis, and Albert Einstein, the scientific genius. If only we’d listen to these brilliant men.

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In Features, Film, Interviews Tags A, Amos Gitai, Micha Lescot, Mathieu Amalric, Venice Film festival, Israel, Palestine, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Irene Jacob, Tel Aviv, Europe, Middle East, House, Barbican, London, Jérôme Kircher, Pablo Picasso, Guernica, Shikun, Olivier Assayas’s Hors du Temps, Malaise dans la civilisation, Virginia Woolf, The Three Guineas, Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others, Un point lumière flou, Evgenia Rudenko’s & Alexander Plank, The War of the Sons of Light against the Sons of Darkness, The Jewish War, Josephus Flavius, Maurice Ravel Kaddish, Benjamin Britten War Requiem, Op. 66 / Dies Irae - Lacrimosa dies illa, Alexey Kochetkov, Lament for Yitzhak, Aurora Sonora, Late Night Impro, Ernst Bloch, Schelomo, Louis Sclavis Kyoomars Musayyebi Simon, Markus Stockhausen, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice International Film Festival
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Amos Gitai, center, on the set of ‘Shikun’

Amos Gitai’s ‘Shikun’ promises to offer a much-needed exercise in peace

E. Nina Rothe January 15, 2024

The latest film by the prolific filmmaker, theater director, architect and artist has just been announced as a Berlinale Special at the upcoming Berlin Film Festival. 

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In Features, Film, Film Festivals Tags Amos Gitai, Berlinale, Shikun, Berlin Film Festival, Orson Welles, Palestine, Israel, Gaza, Eugene Ionesco, Rhinoceros, Middle East, Negev desert, BeerSheva, Hamas, Irène Jacob, Benjamin Netanyahu, House, Eric Gautier, Ukrainians, Venice, Cannes, Mahmood Darwish, Bahira Ablassi, Laila in Haifa, Umberto Eco, Haaretz, Amira Hass, Yaël Abecassis, Arab, Jewish, Israeli
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A still from ‘Human’ by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

A still from ‘Human’ by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“Cinema with a Conscience”: Five Movies that Changed My Life

E. Nina Rothe February 11, 2018

We’ve all experienced the positive power of cinema. It is that moment, at the end of a movie, right before the lights come back on and as the credits roll by, when we feel we can change the world. We feel invigorated, wish to do better, want to be better and walk out of the theater with a new spring in our step. Sometimes, if we’re lucky, that energy, the magic of the movies, stays with us in our daily lives and continues to inspire a change that can become momentous.

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In Film Tags Human, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, cinema with a conscience, Batman, Loving, Jeff Nichols, Moonlight, Oscar, Midnight Special, Berlinale, Richard and Mildred Loving, Civil Rights struggle, 1967, Caramel, Nadine Labaki, Lebanon, Arab cinema, Beirut, Beauty salon, Middle East, Taxi, Jafar Panahi, Asghar Farhadi, The Salesman, Tehran, Iran, Iranian cinema, I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck, Oscar-nominated, documentary, James Baldwin, America, Samuel L. Jackson, Venice Film Festival, La Biennale di Venezia, Humanity
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