Congratulations to Japan's Departures
I'd like to thank Japan's Departures on winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and sparing us having the anti-Israel Waltz with Bashir be Israel's first academy award. The only cloud in the silver lining is that I will probably lose a few hundred Google hits today from people searching for "Waltz, Bashir, Israel." It's well worth it. "This is a new departure for me," director Yojiro Takita said while accepting the award. "And we'll be back, I hope."Why can't we produce more pro-Israel culture like the Teapacks?
Departures is about a cellist whose orchestra is disbanded and, desperate for work, becomes a funeral professional.
The win for the less heralded Departures was likely to further frustrate critics of the foreign-language film category, which in recent years has gone without nominating several much acclaimed films.
Now, if only we can get Sandra Bernhard to stay home....
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:28 AM
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