{"id":2328,"date":"2007-09-25T01:56:01","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T01:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2328"},"modified":"2007-09-25T01:56:01","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T01:56:01","slug":"2007-9-25-israeli-blockbuster-the-bands-visit-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2328","title":{"rendered":"Israeli blockbuster: &#8220;The Band&#8217;s Visit&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/entertainment\/movies\/ny-filmnotes0925-bandsvisit,0,5058247.column?track=rss\">Egypt and Israel team up for award-winning film &#8216;The Bands Visit&#8217;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Written and directed by Israeli filmmaker Eran Kolirin, &#8220;The Band&#8217;s Visit&#8221; centers around the plight of the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra after it arrives in Israel to open an Arab Cultural Center, only to find itself stranded at the airport without a welcoming committee or place to stay. The band finds an unexpected sanctuary at a caf&#233; that sits at the outskirts of a remote desert town. Before the night is over, both the Egyptian musicians and their Israeli hosts will have grown a little wiser about their respective cultural idiosyncra<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This film won several awards in Israel&#8217;s version of the Oscars. It sounds potentially funny &#8212; I just hope it&#8217;s not saccharine, especially as I am allergic to peace orchestras. In any case, one rarely hears about Israeli cinema &#8212; the last thing I saw is the very moving (French-Israeli) film about a young Sudanese boy who pretends to be Falasha Jew to become a refugee in Israel: <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0388505\/\">Va, Vis et Deviens<\/a>. (<strong>Update: <\/strong>You can get it on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.fr\/gp\/redirect.html%3FASIN=B000IAZ3B8%26tag=cairocalling-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\/o\/ASIN\/B000IAZ3B8%253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002\">Amazon France<\/a>.)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/entertainment\/movies\/ny-filmnotes0925-bandsvisit,0,5058247.column?track=rss\">Egypt and Israel team up for award-winning film &#8216;The Bands Visit&#8217;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Written and directed by Israeli filmmaker Eran Kolirin, &#8220;The Band&#8217;s Visit&#8221; centers around the plight of the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra after it arrives in Israel to open an Arab Cultural Center, only to find itself stranded at the airport without a welcoming committee or place to stay. The band finds an unexpected sanctuary at a caf&#233; that sits at the outskirts of a remote desert town. Before the night is over, both the Egyptian musicians and their Israeli hosts will have grown a little wiser about their respective cultural idiosyncra<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This film won several awards in Israel&#8217;s version of the Oscars. It sounds potentially funny &#8212; I just hope it&#8217;s not saccharine, especially as I am allergic to peace orchestras. In any case, one rarely hears about Israeli cinema &#8212; the last thing I saw is the very moving (French-Israeli) film about a young Sudanese boy who pretends to be Falasha Jew to become a refugee in Israel: <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0388505\/\">Va, Vis et Deviens<\/a>. (<strong>Update: <\/strong>You can get it on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.fr\/gp\/redirect.html%3FASIN=B000IAZ3B8%26tag=cairocalling-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\/o\/ASIN\/B000IAZ3B8%253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002\">Amazon France<\/a>.)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[102,59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}