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The whole world is talking about this director.

It's time for you to get to know her too

Chloe Zhao, the recent winner of the Golden Lion in Venice, is the hottest creator in the film world.

The closure is a good opportunity to watch her penultimate and exemplary film, "The Rider," which is now available to stream with us.

And also: two of Eastwood and Scorsese's best films, and a few more recommendations

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• Angelina Jolie

• Jerusalem Cinematheque

• Clint Eastwood

Avner Shavit

Friday, 18 September 2020, 00:12

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"The Rider" (Jerusalem Cinematheque website)

Last week the Venice Film Festival ended, and its most prestigious award, the Golden Lion, was presented to Chloe Zhao's "Nomadland".

No one was surprised, as the American director has established herself in recent years as one of the best and most respected filmmakers working today - thanks to her debut work, "Songs My Brother Taught Me," which was screened here only at the Jerusalem Festival, and her second film, "The Rider," commercially distributed here by my daughter. Lev Cinema about two years ago, but as befits a challenging indie creation, did not become a blockbuster.

"Nomadland" has distribution rights in Israel, but it is probably impossible to know at the moment when and where we can see it.

In the meantime, we get another opportunity to watch "The Rider" during the closure - the film will be available for a week on the new website of the Jerusalem Cinematheque, for 15 shekels, and it is worth every penny.

The film is about a former rodeo star who ended his career due to injury and has a hard time finding his place in the world when he is not on horseback.

The experience of watching it is as beautiful and painful as waking up from a daydream, and the director is better at dealing here with issues like the baroque of the dream and dismantling concepts like masculinity and heroism, but not with the joy of destruction, but with extraordinary delicacy and sensitivity.

To watch the film, visit the Cinematheque website.

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Modern classics.

From "The Rider" (Photo: PR)

"Judgment" (Jerusalem Cinematheque website)

"The Rider" has previously been featured on other local streaming services, but the Cinematheque's website also offers local premieres of fresh films - those that did an international festival tour this year, but due to the Corona did not make it to cinemas in the country.

This week, for example, a film called "Judgment" is coming up, which is also recommended.

This is the debut film of Filipino director Raymond Ribe Gutierrez, which made its successful world premiere a little over a year ago, as part of the Venice Film Festival 2019. This drama deals with the dual plight of women in Filipino society: not only do many suffer from their partner violence, but law enforcement They face impossible difficulties on the way to the execution of the law with those who abused them.

Despite all this, and although this puts her and her daughter in danger, the film's protagonist decides not to remain silent in the face of the repeated violence that her partner demonstrates against her.

"Judgment" accompanies her during her Sisyphean journey towards doing justice, one way or another, and does so with impressive cinematic skill relative to a debut film, and with an intensity that grabs the viewer's throat and leaves him captivated by the screen - from the first second to the powerful and thought-provoking ending.

To watch the film, visit the Cinematheque website.

When was the last time you saw a Filipino movie?

From "Judgment" (Photo: PR)

"My first year" (on HOT and yes VOD)

Many more films will be made about the medical system during the corona era.

In the meantime, you can watch those that have been produced about this world before - and it's not that it was missing stories as well.

The one who knows these stories best of all is Thomas Little, as he was a doctor himself until he passed behind the camera, and made a TV series and also several films on the subject - the excellent "Hippocrates" was screened here only as part of the French Film Festival;

The slightly more flattering "village doctor" was commercially distributed and was a success;

And "My First Year" hit the screens here this winter, just before the plague, leaving no special mark.

Now, with its rise in streaming services, there is a chance to complete it.

This time, Lilty closes the circle and returns to his youth.

His characters are two young people who dream of becoming doctors, each for his own reasons, but discover that the path to fulfilling the dream goes through an impossibly difficult, inhuman and flawed course of study in every way.

No matter how hard your life is, the film will make you realize that as long as you are not studying medicine, everything else is a bonus.

Since this is a French film, it does not have any of the clichés and conventions we would find in a Hollywood product on a similar subject - so, for example, the script is devoid of any romantic subplot, simply because the protagonists are too busy to mess with love.

It is not a masterpiece, but it manages to maintain interest throughout, provide a glimpse into a world that is relevant to all of us but few know in depth, and also reveal the sick roots of the health care system, in France and in any other country - including Israel, of course.

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See it's a French movie.

From "My First Year" (Photo: PR)

"The Swap", "Shatter Island" (Netflix)

And from the films of the (relatively) young and novice creators we move on to two of the oldest foxes in the field - Clint Eastwood and Martin Scorsese, the most senior and prolific of the veteran American directors who are active today.

In recent weeks, two of the better films they have directed in the last decade and a half have surfaced on Netflix.

Eastwood's' replacement 'from 2008 and Scorsese's'' Shatter Island 'from 2010.

Both are period thrillers, dealing with parenting and disappearance, and both star two of the big stars in modern-day Hollywood.

"The Replacement" provides Angelina Jolie with what was her big role until then, and perhaps even now.

She plays a single mother looking for her missing son in 1920s Los Angeles, and is required to fight the helplessness and inhumanity of the authorities, allowing Eastwood to express his constant contempt for the establishment.

Not only the ideology is characteristic of him, but also the quality of the making - the film is superbly made, devoid of unnecessary fat, sweeping and fascinating and leaves a great impression.

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Angelina Jolie's record.

From "The Replacement" (Photo: PR)

The same is true of Shatter Island, in which Leonardo DiCaprio plays a police detective who arrives at a closed institution in Los Angeles in the 1950s to investigate the disappearance of a patient who was hospitalized after drowning her three children.

As time goes on, it is revealed that there is a gap between what really happened and what is visible, and Scorsese describes this gap with a rare cinematic momentum, which makes one want to get up and shout "Bravo, maestro".

This week, as part of the opening of the Toronto Film Festival, Scorsese sent a video message in which he talked about the fact that nowadays there is a growing tendency to diminish film culture and marginalize it.

"Shatter Island" is a reminder of the cinema of yesteryear - big, impressive, central and significant.

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