3/30/2024 0 Comments Jeruzalem movie theaters![]() ![]() “Jeruzalem” is as engrossing and entertaining as any movie featuring winged monsters and giant demons can be, but it is hard not to read it as, also, a sharp commentary on the current Israel’s self-destructive policies. ![]() Like the Weimar cinema before it, Yoav and Doron Paz’s new film about a zombie Armageddon projects a sense of impending catastrophe, an equal-opportunity disaster for Jews, Arabs and others in the eternally embattled city. The artists and filmmakers, whether or not they were conscious of it, intuited the rise of evil and captured it in oblique Expressionists’ angles - a snapshot of the German psyche. In his book, he analyzed Weimar-era German cinema and theorized that its black-and-white monsters, vampires and evil masters prefigured the emergence of fascism (see “Nosferatu,” the Dr. Kracauer was a Jewish writer and critic who escaped Nazi Germany. At the recent Jerusalem International Film Festival, the Israeli horror movie “Jeruzalem” was scheduled to premiere right after “From Caligari to Hitler,” a German documentary based on Siegfried Kracauer’s book of the same name.
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