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ALILA
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The lives of over a dozen residents in a rundown apartment complex on the outskirts of Tel Aviv are explored in this drama from the director of Kadosh and Berlin Jerusalem. Gitai exposes tensions within Israel i society through disparate characters whose stories resonate with humor, pathos and the tempestuous clamor of everyday life. "Ruefully funny. . ..moving" (Scott Tobias, The Onion). In Hebrew with English subtitles. Amos Gitai---Israel---2003---121 mins.
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AMOS GITAI: EXILE (SET-DVD)
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Five feature films by Amos Gitai that address the subject of exile are included in this collection. Esther (1986, 97 mins.) updates the Biblical story of Esther in a "dense, provocative" film (Village Voice) that is "bristling with ideas" (New York Times). In Berlin/Jerusalem (1989, 83 mins.), two women seek out a new life in the Holy Land in a beautiful, powerful portrait of the birth of Israel. Birth of a Golem (1991, 60 mins.) is a "notebook" film exploring ideas for a feature film on the theme of the Golem and a parable about the creative process. Golem: The Spirit of Exile (1992, 105 mins.) fuses the Book of Ruth and other Biblical tales of exile with the Jewish legend of the Golem. Its eclectic cast includes Bernardo Bertolucci, B-Movie legend Samuel Fuller, and Fassbinder regular Hanna Schygulla. Fuller and Schygulla also appear in Golem: The Petrified Garden (1993, 84 mins.), in which Gitai turns his iconoclastic gaze to the collapse of the Soviet Union as seen through the eyes of an art dealer. Films are in French, German, Hebrew, English, and other languages. Amos Gitai---Israel/Great Britain/Austria/Netherlands/Italy---1986-1993
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BERLIN JERUSALEM
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Two women seek out a new life in the Holy Land in this beautiful, powerful portrait of the birth of Israel.
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CARMEL (GITAI)
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''It's not easy being a father in Israel these days,'' Amos Gitai (Free Zone) says of his son's military duty, encapsulating the mixed emotions of living in a land with such a deep and conflicted history. Writer/director/producer Gitai begins his new, unclassifiable work with quotes from Josephus on the Jewish Wars of two millennia ago, then segues to present-day Israel and his family, with a focus on the remarkably articulate Efratia, the filmmaker's late mother, whose letters about life in Israel and abroad are read by Jeanne Moreau (Ever After, La Femme Nikita). Charting his own course through Israeli history, Gitai (who is only two years younger than Israel) becomes a lively symbol for the country itself. A child of the kibbutz, a young soldier wounded during the Yom Kippur War, a sometimes testy, but always honest, artist whose works are more often welcomed abroad than at home, Gitai has led a life as dense, rich, and complex as the nation of his birth. In Hebrew, French, and Arabic with English Subtitles.
Amos Gitai---Israel---2009---93 mins.
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DEVARIM
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Amos Gitai's narrative debut is also the first in a cycle of films about contemporary Israeli cities (Yom Yom, Kadosh). Set in Tel Aviv, Gitai's powerful drama charts the singular paths of three disaffected men: a womanizing divorcee (Assi Dayan), an aimless pianist (Amos Schub), and their emotionally stunted friend (Gitai). When the latter's father dies, the three set off to attend his funeral, and find their lives transformed in the process. "Amos Gitai's most ambitious film to date... handsomely photographed " (David Stratton, Variety). In Hebrew with English subtitles. Amos Gitai---Israel---1995---110 mins.
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ESTHER
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In this "dense, provocative" film (Village Voice), Amos Gitai updates the Biblical story of Esther in order to explore the world today.
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FIELD DIARY
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Two explosive, shocking, and profound films from Amos Gitai. Set mostly in the West Bank before and during the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon (some scenes were also shot there), Field Diary (1982, 83 mins.) explores, as the film states it, "how the occupation manifests itself, and how violence against the Palestinians is legitimized." With its in-your-face interference with soldiers and its unique and profoundly haunting counterpoint of sound and image, Field Diary is a daring and brutally on-the-edge film. In Arena of Murder (1996, 80 mins.), Gitai investigates the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin three weeks after the event. He travels through the country for several months, filming random encounters to paint a melancholic portrait of a country in turmoil. In Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles. Amos Gitai---Israel/France---1982, 1996---163 mins.
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FILMS OF AMOS GITAI: SIX FILMS FROM ISRAEL
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This collection of six narrative features from Israel's gifted and most controversial director, Amos Gitai, includes Devarim, Yom Yom, Kadosh, Kippur, Kedma and Alila.
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FREE ZONE
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Natalie Portman plays an American living in Jerusalem in this allegorical road movie by the controversial Israeli auteur, Amos Gitai. With Hiam Abbass.
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GOLEM: BIRTH OF A GOLEM
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A powerful and unusual work, Birth of a Golem is a dreamlike "notebook" film exploring ideas for a feature film on the theme of the Golem. Gradually, the notebook takes on a life of its own, incorporating tales of Biblical creation and other stories from Jewish legend. The result is a parable about the creative process--and the many forms it takes. In French and other languages with English subtitles. Amos Gitai---France---1991---60 mins.
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GOLEM: THE PETRIFIED GARDEN
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Amos Gitai turns his iconoclastic gaze to the collapse of the Soviet Union in a magnificent, wry, and oddly humorous film that stretches across the vast Russian plain.
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GOLEM: THE SPIRIT OF EXILE
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Amos Gitai's Biblical parable for the modern world is set in a gorgeously photographed Paris, packed with talent, heady with ambition, and infinitely mesmerizing.
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HOUSE / HOUSE IN JERUSALEM
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Two extremely simple yet utterly profound films, exploring the history of a house in East Jerusalem as a microcosm for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the first film, House (1980), a Euro-Israeli Professor has purchased the house from an aging Algerian-Israeli couple. An Israeli contractor rehabs the house with Palestinian laborers. Meanwhile, the filmmakers seek out the house's pre-1948 owner. Produced and then censored by Israeli television, House was saved from the dustbin of history by its director, Amos Gitai (Kadosh, Kippur). Almost twenty years later, Gitai returns to the house, revisits the families of the pre-1948 owner, and explores some of the same issues in A House in Jerusalem (1997). In English, Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles.
Amos Gitai---Israel/France---1980/1997---148 mins.
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KADOSH
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Amos Gitai, Israel's gifted and most controversial director, turns his unblinking eye on the treatment of women in ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities. The story, set in the Mea Sherim quarter of Jerusalem, follows the struggles of two sisters to find personal happiness in a system that seems designed to marginalize their place in society and limit their possibilities for personal happiness. One of the sisters, although devoted to her husband, is rejected by the community when her marriage remains childless. The other is pressured by the rabbi into marrying a cruel, violent man. "...an anguished cry...has a ripped-from-the-headlines immediacy" (Scott Heller, Boston Phoenix). In Hebrew with English subtitles. Amos Gitai---Israel---1999---117 mins.
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KEDMA
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Set in May of 1948, this powerful film from Amos Gitai (Kadosh) tells the story of a group of Holocaust survivors who sail to Palestine on an old cargo ship called the Kedma, only to arrive before British troops leave and before the formal founding of the nation of Israel. Gitai's look at the first hours the men and women spend in the newly established country is a beautifully photographed meditation on exile, hope and despair. In Hebrew with Amos Gitai---Israel---2002---100 mins.
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KIPPUR
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Amos Gitai's vivid and wrenching film about the Yom Kippur War of 1973 draws upon his own experiences as a soldier while presenting combat in a subjective, existential, and visually arresting manner. Few films have conveyed the physical and emotional disorientation of war so powerfully. "Gitai plunges the viewer into the reality of modern warfare, in which the enemy is often invisible--we never see the Syrians in Kippur--and battle lines are often unclear...Depicting was as chaos, he makes a powerful argument for peace" (Fred Camper, Chicago Reader). In Hebrew with English subtitles.
Amos Gitai---Israel---2000---120 mins.
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ONE DAY YOU'LL UNDERSTAND
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Known for his confrontational, formalist, and political films, Israeli director Amos Gitai puts more emphasis on narrative in this drama based on an autobiographical novel by Jerome Clement. The wonderful Jeanne Moreau plays Rivka, an aging WWII survivor living in Paris in the mid-1980s. When her grown son, Victor (Hippolyte Girardot), discovers an Aryan declaration in his father's paperwork, Victor's conception of his family's Jewish identity is shaken. Since Rivka refuses to speak about the past, Victor plugs himself, his wife (Emmanuelle Devos) and his own children into an investigation of their possibly anti-Semitic heritage. This leads to the tiny French village where Victor's grandparents hid during the war. "Powerful and moving" (The Hollywood Reporter). Also know as Plus Tard. In French with English Amos Gitai---France/Israel/Germany---2008---90 mins.
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TERRITORIES (SET) GITAI
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A collection of thematically linked films by acclaimed director Amos Gitai. House (1980) and House in Jerusalem (1997) are two extremely simple yet utterly profound films, exploring the history of a house in East Jerusalem as a microcosm for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (Combined running time: 148 minutes). Wadi 1981-1991 and Wadi Grand Canyon 2001 (180 mins.) are three interlocking films depicting a group of Arab and Israelis who nurture a fragile culture of coexistence over a span of twenty years. Field Diary (1982, 83 mins.) is an explosive, shocking, and profound film. Set mostly in the West Bank before and during the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon (some scenes were also shot there), it explores, as the film states it, "how the occupation manifests itself, and how violence against th e Palestinians is legitimized." Its earliest screenings were greeted with vicious anger from armed Israeli soldiers; and the aftermath led to Gitai's decade-long exile from Israel. Arena of Murder (1996, 80 mins.), finds Gitai investigating the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin three weeks after the event. In Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, English and other languages, with English Subtitles. Amos Gitai---Israel/France---1980-2001
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WADI 1981-1991/WADI GRAND CANYON 2001
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Set in a valley in Haifa, these three interlocking films from Amos Gitai depict a group of Arabs and Israelis who nurture a fragile culture of coexistence over 20 years.
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