Ari Folman’s broodingly original Waltz With Bashir is a documentary that seems only possible, not to mention bearable, as an animated feature. Although it can be highly explicit in detailing war’s ...

Though almost entirely animated, it’s no cartoon. “Waltz with Bashir” is an interesting aesthetic experiment in graphic novel style. The best foreign language film winner at this month’s Golden Globes ...

TEL AVIV, Israel—A trio of young Israeli soldiers emerge naked from a black sea, flares in the night sky illuminating their still-boyish faces as they walk toward a Beirut of palm trees and high-rise ...

Film director Ari Folman is probably the only man in Israel whose cartoon image is better known than his real face. On the streets of Tel Aviv, Folman — a tall, grizzled figure — passes by unnoticed.

Courtesy of Bridgit Folman Film Gang, Les Films d’Ici, Razor Film Produktion MK2 Films has acquired worldwide rights to Ari Folman’s “Waltz With Bashir,” following an agreement signed with Bridgit ...

HARRISVILLE, N.H. Waltz With Bashir -- An animated documentary war film? That's the kind of creative hybrid that a musical genius like avant-garde composer John Zorn would probably be tickled to hear ...

NEW YORK — Waltz With Bashir, a groundbreaking animated documentary about Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon, won the National Society of Film Critics’ 2008 best picture award Saturday. But ...

Animation! It's not just for kiddie movies anymore. Actually, that's been true at least since Ralph Bakshi's 1972 X-rated Fritz the Cat, if not the intricately smart Looney Tunes shorts of the 1940s.

Ari Folman’s broodingly original Waltz With Bashir is a documentary that seems only possible, not to mention bearable, as an animated feature. A grim, deeply personal phantasmagoria centered around ...

In 2008, in New York, I went to see a film that has stayed in my mind ever since. Israeli director Ari Folman’s sublime, deeply personal animated documentary Waltz with Bashir had competed at the ...

A grim, deeply personal phantasmagoria around the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, Waltz with Bashir is a documentary that seems only possible as an animated feature. Lebanon merges with present-day Israel ...