Israel's Filmaker is Not "Israel" Enough

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	Israel's Filmaker is Not "Israel" Enough

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9-3-2007 11:09 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a16519d6-b907-476f-909d-a13aec8c1585/E84671C1-240C-4273-8DCA-A5A2506C4B5C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117971167.html?categoryid=14&cs=1&nid=2565" href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117971167.html?categoryid=14&cs=1&nid=2565" style="font-size: 11px;">www.variety.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117971167.html?categoryid=14&cs=1&nid=2565">Israel's Channel 1, the country's main pubcaster, has decided not to buy Amos Gitai's new film "Disengagement" on the grounds that the helmer is not Israeli enough</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117971167.html?categoryid=14&cs=1&nid=2565">Gitai's politics were too left-wing and because the helmer doesn't live entirely in Israel.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117971167.html?categoryid=14&cs=1&nid=2565">Although not a big box office draw, the helmer is credited with having opened the doors for Israeli filmmakers on the international scene, regularly having his films selected at major film festivals. The helmer has had numerous pix selected at both Cannes ("Kadosh"; "Kippur"; "Kedma"; "Free Zone") and Venice ("Eden"; "Alila"; "Promised Land" and "Disengagement")</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117971167.html?categoryid=14&cs=1&nid=2565">"It's plain McCarthyism," says Gitai. "I live in Israel, I served in the Israeli army, my children did the same, and now I need to prove myself in front of them? Maybe the head of the committee should update about my nationality with the Syrian intelligence that shut down my plane in the 1973 war."</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E84671C1-240C-4273-8DCA-A5A2506C4B5C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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