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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Jan 24, 2015

Mommy

Xavier Dolan’s winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes (he shared it with Godard’s Goodbye To Language in 3D) is nothing like it sounds. A…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

May 16, 2013

Frances Ha

I have never enjoyed the films of Noah Baumbach. Although they are well written and well directed, I find them mean spirited. From The…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Aug 1, 2012

The 50 Greatest Films of All Time

Sight and Sound Magazine just released its list of 50 greatest films of all time. The big surprise…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Jan 14, 2012

On DVD: The Future

I remember reading sundry reviews about this second movie by professional hipster Miranda July, all of them emphatically caveating how you had to endure a lot of twee, mumbling, pointless hipster anomie to finally come to some arty epiphany about the nature of time. Well, Marcel Proust this…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Oct 4, 2011

NYFF 2011: 2 Small Films

Julia Loktev’s The Loneliest Planet, a small film about romantic disillusionment, takes place in the wilderness of Georgia, Russia, and follows two young travelers, Nica, (Israeli actress Hani Furstenberg) and Alex (Gael García Bernal) as they go hiking in the mountains. There is very…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Dec 16, 2010

Cahiers Du Cinema Ideal Cinematheque

These kinds of lists are meant to be discussed passionately. I agree with many of the 100 movies and disagree with more. For instance, under no circumstances would Godard’s insufferable Pierrot Le Fou make the list, and I would add more Billy Wilder to the canon…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Feb 19, 2010

Department of Irrational Hatreds

Everybody has irrational hatreds in film (just like we all have passionate adorations). Everybody has one star, or director, or movie they cannot abide. The hatred itself is not unfounded, but the extent of it may be irrational. I have plenty of those, and so, my dear…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Sep 5, 2008

Shoot the Piano Player

Yesterday night I needed a fix of beauty and lightness and French.
So there was Truffaut’s lovely little noir to do the trick.
Shoot the Piano Player is an adorable, quirky little film noir. Which is its greatest virtue. When has anybody described this genre as adorable and quirky? Shoot…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Apr 2, 2008

Truffaut Vs Godard

I’m a Truffaut kind of jeune fille.
And to judge from Richard Brody’s gossipy article about the deux of them, I’m not wrong about the spoiled brattiness of Godard.
Without them both, however, we would have no New Wave, and who knows how long it would have taken for cinema to be liberated and…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Mar 17, 2008

Classics: Contempt

For the most part, I don’t quite get Jean Luc Godard. I can’t say I’m a fan. I really like his first movies, where he liberated the camera, and made cinema sexy, gorgeous, free and modern (A bout de souffle, A Band Apart). But then there is a really self-conscious strain in him that I find…