Uri Klein

Palestinian cinema, like its Israeli counterpart, is immersed in history and trauma, say two professors - an Israeli and a Palestinian - in their new book.

Greek director Theo Angelopoulos, in Israel for the Haifa International Film Festival, doesn't make life easy for his viewers.

Mark Wexler's documentary about his cinematographer father, Haskell Wexler, will be screened today and tomorrow in Jerusalem.

After directing Oscar-winning films, William Friedkin switched to operas. `Samson and Delilah' premieres in Tel Aviv tonight.

"Odessa Odessa," Michale Boganim's documentary showing at Tel Aviv's Lev Cinema Docu-Lev festival, belongs to a documentary film tradition that is sometimes referred to as "poetic."

Laslo, the first Israeli actor to win top prize at Cannes since 1967, awarded for role in Amos Gitai's film 'Free Zone.'

Swiss cinema and theater actor Bruno Ganz hesitated for a long time before agreeing to play Adolf Hitler in Oliver Hirschbiegel's film "The Downfall: Hitler and the End of the Third Reich," which opened at Israel theaters this week.

Cinema lovers shouldn't miss the three films by French director Jean Rouch that will be screened at DocAviv this week. Rouch proved that to make films, all you need is a camera with which you have to go out into the street and create this fascinating combination of the existing and the invented, the present and the imagined, which is possible almost exclusively in cinema.

Bill Condon's aim in his new film on Alfred Kinsey is to emphasize the sex researcher's message - that people are different from one another - at a time of growing conservatism in America

Bill Condon's aim in his new film on Alfred Kinsey is to emphasize the sex researcher's message - that people are different from one another - at a time of growing conservatism in America

One of the most important books on film ever written - "Hitchcock/Truffaut" - which originally came out in 1966, has finally been published in Hebrew. And it's enhanced by the rerelease of some Hitchcock masterpieces

One of the most important books on film ever written - "Hitchcock/Truffaut" - which originally came out in 1966, has finally been published in Hebrew. And it's enhanced by the rerelease of some Hitchcock masterpieces

Film actor Christopher Reeve, who died on Sunday in New York of heart failure at the age of 52, will be remembered as the ideal Superman.

Reality shows offer an addictive combination of voyeurism and sadism, bringing back the pleasure once reserved for watching gladiators. But on the small screen, ordinary people portray not only the gladiators, but also the lions

The movie capital of the world has not produced a really big star - one whose name alone is enough to fill the movie theaters - for more than a decade. The search goes on for successors to Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise

The movie capital of the world has not produced a really big star - one whose name alone is enough to fill the movie theaters - for more than a decade. The search goes on for successors to Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise

An unprecedented number of excellent local films have been selected for the various categories of tonight's Israeli Film Academy awards ceremony.

Jewish and Argentine identity are engaging 30-year-old film director Daniel Burman, who arrived in Israel for the screening of his film "The Lost Embrace," winner of the Silver Bear award at this year's Berlin Film Festival.

More realistic than its predecessor, Richard Linklater's newest film portrays the reunion of its two characters, nine years after they first met in `Before Sunrise.'

More realistic than its predecessor, Richard Linklater's newest film portrays the reunion of its two characters, nine years after they first met in `Before Sunrise.'

In the Wolgin Competition that was held at the Jerusalem Film Festival that closed on Saturday night, 14 new Israeli films participated - an unprecedented number.