'Boycott the boycotts' Jerusalem Post

'I'll boycott boycotts," said Wim Wenders at a press conference at the Sam Spiegel Film School in Jerusalem Monday. The iconoclastic master director, who is visiting Israel as part of the celebration of the school's 20th anniversary, had just been asked about his reaction to calls from fellow filmmakers for a boycott of Israeli movies. Wenders, who has made such modern classics as Wings of Desire (1988), Paris, Texas (1984) and The American Friend (1977), to name just a few, tends to go his own way.

"I've seen a lot of Israeli movies I've liked over the last few years," he said. "I can't think of a reason to boycott them." And that was that, as far as the director was concerned; but when reporters pressed him for his thoughts on cultural boycotts, he said, "Cultural boycotts - in general they don't work. Boycotts often achieve the opposite. Take Cuba - boycotting Cuba really secured Castro's rule for the next 20 years."

Cuba is a country Wenders knows

Unexpected Visitors

My synagogue and one of our neighboring churches have been co-sponsoring a thoughtfully programmed screen series over the last couple of years, "The Face of the Other," which focuses on the socio-political implications of "otherness." The catalog of titles is a ripping and impressive on, including, most recently, Laurent Cantet's The Class, which I managed to miss when it played theatrically. I've been the "facilitator" for several of these films, and the discussions that have followed have been keen and provocative.

Needless to say, the reason I'm mentioning this is that I'm speaking once again at the next offering in the series, and it's recent favorite of mine, Eran Kolirin's bittersweet comedy, The Belt's Visit. That is a film I did manage to see, and review, when it opened last year. In fact, my review for Jewish Week is below:

Loneliness seems to be built into the child condition. Blaise Pascal said, “We die alone,” and that limitation on human aspirations...

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