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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 343

Fiachra GIBBONS

British theater and film director, playwright and actor Peter Brook poses during a photo session at the Bouffes du Nord theatre in Paris, February 27, 2018. (Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP)
July 3, 2022, 2:08 pm
Peter Brook, mystical giant who changed theater forever, dies at 97
Author of the influential text ‘The Empty Space,’ London-born son of Jewish scientists reinvented the art of performance by taking it back to basics
By Fiachra GIBBONS
Screen capture from the Holocaust documentary film 'Final Account' of a former Nazi member of the SS looking at photographs. (video screenshot)
September 3, 2020, 8:29 pm
New documentary shows former Nazis unrepentant, even proud of serving in the SS
British director Luke Holland spent years befriending elderly WWII veterans, then interviewed them for his film; producers cast doubt on claim many Germans didn’t know of Holocaust
By Fiachra GIBBONS
Feminist activists paste posters on police vehicles outside Cesar Film Awards Ceremony in Paris as guests arrive, February 28, 2020. (Lucas Barioulet/AFP)
February 29, 2020, 4:20 am
Walkouts as Roman Polanski wins best director at French Oscars
Protesters try to storm Paris film awards ceremony, chant ‘lock up Polanski’ over sexual assault allegations; the filmmaker avoids event, fearing a ‘public lynching’
By Fiachra GIBBONS
French-Polish director Roman Polanski looks on on stage after the preview of his last movie 'J'accuse' (An Officer and a Spy) in Paris, November 4, 2019. (Thomas SAMSON/AFP)
February 27, 2020, 3:30 pm
Polanski snubs French Oscars for Dreyfus movie, fearing ‘lynching’ by activists
Director, wanted in US over child rape in 1970s, to skip ceremony in which his film about anti-Semitic affair is the favorite, saying ‘we know how this evening will unfold already’
By Fiachra GIBBONS
FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2017 photo director Roman Polanski poses during a photo call to the screening of "Based on a true story" in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
January 30, 2020, 3:02 am
Fury after Polanski’s new film on Dreyfus affair tops French ‘Oscar’ nominations
Head of France’s film academy says it ‘should not take moral positions’ when evaluating movies, prompting outcry that award could go to director wanted in US for statutory rape
By Fiachra GIBBONS
Screen capture from a trailer for the Roman Polanski film 'J'Accuse' (An officer and a spy), released in 2019. (YouTube)
November 19, 2019, 2:37 pm
Polanski film tops French box office despite rape claim
Defying calls for boycott of ‘An Officer and a Spy,’ hundreds of thousands flock to see movie about anti-Semitic persecution of French Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus
By Fiachra GIBBONS
Demonstrators hold banners reading "I accuse: Polanski Rapist" during a protest against French-Polish film director Roman Polanski outside the "Champo" cinema hall in Paris on November 12, 2019. (Christophe ARCHAMBAULT/AFP)
November 14, 2019, 9:32 pm
Polanski’s Dreyfus film a hit in France despite new rape allegations
As viewers flock to celebrated movie ‘An Officer and a Spy,’ about the anti-Semitism case, some say director’s talent doesn’t exonerate him
By Fiachra GIBBONS
FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2017 photo director Roman Polanski poses during a photo call to the screening of "Based on a true story" in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
November 12, 2019, 9:21 pm
French support for Polanski crumbles amid new rape accusations
Interviews to promote director’s new film have been either canceled or pulled since a French photographer claimed he attacked her in 1975
By Sophie LAUBIE and Fiachra GIBBONS
A scene from ITV's "Singletown." (video screenshot)
October 17, 2019, 8:46 pm
Novel Israeli program among deluge of dating shows aimed at women
With female-geared programs proliferating worldwide, new Israeli reality format stirring international interest has drag queens mentoring single women as they search for love
By Fiachra GIBBONS
Boy detective Tintin and his dog Snowy in an animated TV series. (YouTube screenshot)
October 1, 2019, 6:23 am
Scottish kilt helped Tintin come out as more PC comic hero, says expert
Despite this ‘stylistic and ideological change,’ works featuring fictional boy detective often contained anti-Semitic tropes, pro-Nazi viewpoint, researcher says
By Alain JEAN-ROBERT and Fiachra GIBBONS
Screen capture from video of the Holocaust movie 'The Painted Bird.' (YouTube)
September 4, 2019, 4:25 pm
Holocaust ‘masterpiece’ causes uproar at Venice film festival
Film adaptation of Jerzy Kosinski’s book ‘The Painted Bird’ draws acclaim, but has some viewers flee screening due to its graphic content
By Fiachra GIBBONS
An employee works outside the Palazzo del Cinema on August 28, 2019 on the opening day of the 76th Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP)
August 28, 2019, 9:19 pm
Polanski controversy clouds opening of Venice film festival
Jewish director, a fugitive from US since 1978 rape trial, to screen historical thriller about persecution of French Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus
By Kelly MacNamara and Fiachra GIBBONS
Madeleine Riffaud, 94, speaks about the liberation of Paris on 1944 during an interview with the AFP at her appartment in Paris, on July 26, 2019. (Natalie Handel / AFP)
August 14, 2019, 10:43 am
‘I put two bullets in the Nazi’s head,’ French Resistance heroine recalls
Before becoming a muckraking journalist, Madeleine Riffaud helped liberate Paris in 1944 with daring raids, and managed to survive despite being caught by the Gestapo
By Frédéric POUCHOT and Fiachra GIBBONS
Workers hang on a wall a painting believed by some experts to be Caravaggio's 'Judith Beheading Holofernes' for its public presentation at the Drouot auction house in Paris on June 14, 2019 before it goes under the hammer on June 27 in Toulouse, the city where it was discovered five years ago. (Francois Guillot/AFP)
June 28, 2019, 8:58 pm
‘Lost’ $170 million Caravaggio biblical masterpiece snapped up before auction
Painting depicting grisly scene of Jewish widow Judith beheading sleeping Assyrian general purchased 2 days before it was due to go under the hammer in France
By Hervé GAVARD and Fiachra GIBBONS
Salman Rushdie speaking in Sao Paulo on May 14, 2014. (Flickr/Greg Salibian)
February 11, 2019, 8:23 am
‘I don’t want to hide,’ says Rushdie, 30 years after fatwa
Iranian death sentence that sent the famed Indo-British author into years of hiding launched a new era of ‘competitive intolerance’ targeting writers, says rights advocate
By Fiachra GIBBONS
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