Tag: Ari Folman
Kodi Smit-McPhee Joins Ari Folman’s The Congress
Let Me In star Kodi Smit-McPhee is quite busy little guy these days.
Just in case you’re wondering why, here’s the big casting news: McPhee will star in an upcoming Ari Folman‘s futuristic sci-fi film titled The Congress.
He will join the cast that already includes Robin Wright, Danny Huston, Harvey Keitel and Paul Giamatti.
In an interview McPhee said: “I’m also doing a film called The Congress which is just in the rehearsal process and I think next week we’ll be shooting. I don’t really know how to explain it, I think it’s sci-fi and futuristic.”
The Congress is an adaptation of the novel The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem, who also wrote Solaris, which has been twice adapted to film.
Cannes 2008 – Ari Folman’s Waltz With Bashir
Playing in the Official Selection, Israeli director Ari Folman‘s Waltz With Bashir, a documentary about the Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of 1982, is a major revelation.
Waltz with Bashir documents the struggle of the filmmaker, Ari Folman, to come to terms with the gaps in his memory surrounding the part he played in the first Lebanese war and the 1982 massacre of Palestinian civilians in the West Beirut refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila.
