list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around The Holy Land on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/The_Holy_Land/192603/default.aspx Title: The Holy Land
Year: 2001
Director: Eitan Gorlin
Plot: A young man discovers the holiest city in the world can also be full of seductive temptations and ethical challenges in this independent coming-of-age drama. Mendy (Oren Rehany) is the son of a devout Orthodox Jewish family in Tel Aviv. Mendy has been raised to become a man of the cloth, and after completing his basic education, he travels to Jerusalem to attend rabbinical school. However, Mendy soon discovers that Jerusalem is a larger and more cosmopolitan city than the Tel Aviv neighborhood where he was raised, and as he tries to satisfy his curiosity about the larger world around him, he finds himself seriously tempted for the first by the forbidden pleasures of the secular life. Mendy strikes up an unlikely friendship with Mike (Saul Stein), the owner of a local tavern that serves as a watering hole for eccentrics and outsiders of all stripes, whom Mendy gets to know on a first name basis. Mendy also finds himself thinking about sex, and one of his teachers suggests he visit a brothel as a way of confronting his sinful urges head on. There, he meets Sacha (Tchelet Semel), a Russian girl his age whose tragic story and luminous beauty make a strong impression upon him. Also screened under the title The Jerusalem Syndrome, The Holy Land was the first feature film from writer and director Eitan Gorlin, an Israeli expatriate who himself attended rabbinical school before dropping out to explore the possibilities of secular life in the United States. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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]]>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:01:06 GMTThe Holy Land2001Eitan GorlinA young man discovers the holiest city in the world can also be full of seductive temptations and ethical challenges in this independent coming-of-age drama. Mendy (Oren Rehany) is the son of a devout Orthodox Jewish family in Tel Aviv. Mendy has been raised to become a man of the cloth, and after completing his basic education, he travels to Jerusalem to attend rabbinical school. However, Mendy soon discovers that Jerusalem is a larger and more cosmopolitan city than the Tel Aviv neighborhood where he was raised, and as he tries to satisfy his curiosity about the larger world around him, he finds himself seriously tempted for the first by the forbidden pleasures of the secular life. Mendy strikes up an unlikely friendship with Mike (Saul Stein), the owner of a local tavern that serves as a watering hole for eccentrics and outsiders of all stripes, whom Mendy gets to know on a first name basis. Mendy also finds himself thinking about sex, and one of his teachers suggests he visit a brothel as a way of confronting his sinful urges head on. There, he meets Sacha (Tchelet Semel), a Russian girl his age whose tragic story and luminous beauty make a strong impression upon him. Also screened under the title The Jerusalem Syndrome, The Holy Land was the first feature film from writer and director Eitan Gorlin, an Israeli expatriate who himself attended rabbinical school before dropping out to explore the possibilities of secular life in the United States. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide4Slightly Tagged (1-5)12http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t49196c52kj.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/The_Holy_Land/192603/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/karina/archive/2008/11/13/37271.aspx Post By: Karina
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Post Date: 11/13/2008 12:01:06 AM
Body: It finally happened: my obsession with MSNBC has dovetailed with legitimate movie news! Sort of! Tonight the New York Times broke the news that over a year ago, Dan Mirvish (filmmaker and co-founder of the Slamdance Film Festival) and Eitan Gorlin (whose directorial debut, The Holy Land, won the Grand Jury Prize at that festival and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award) made up a fake adviser to John McCain named Martin Eisenstadt. On Monday, MSNBC’s David Schuster reported on air that Martin Eisenstadt had taken credit for the “Palin thinks Africa is a country” leak. Eisenstadt had indeed published a post on his blog (tagline: “Because freedom isn’t free”) claiming to be the leaker, which no one at MSNBC bothered to look into deeply before Schuster’s report, otherwise they might have discovered that Eisenstadt a) is a made up person, and b) didn’t actually talk to Carl Cameron, the Fox news reporter who broke the “anonymous sources say Palin doesn’t know Africa is a continent” story. MSNBC weren’t the only ones snowed – The Huffington Post, The National Review and The Los Angeles Times have all previously used Eisenstadt’s made-up blog full of made-up insider information as a source. TV Newser started digging into the story yesterday; they posted an email “from” “Eisenstadt” which, in retrospect, probably should have tipped all of us off. “It’s strange for me (and all a bit Hegelian) to get requests to prove that I exist,” writes “Martin,” before insisting that “every single blog that says I am a ‘hoax’ has emanated from a single, bitter individual who for some reason has a vendetta against me - a golf blogger allegedly named ‘Wolfrum.’” William K. Wolfrum’s blog looks so overtly hoaxy that it might actually be not a hoax … except that at the end of the Times story,”Wolfrum” himself seems to imply that he doesn’t actually exist. I think. In any case, above you can watch the first part of a fake BBC documentary Mirvish and Gorlin produced about Eisenstadt, called The Last Republican. Gorlin plays the, uh, titular lead, and he does a superb job of saying things like, “We can bomb every rainforest back into prehistory, but we’ve got to have some kind of economic model that people can embrace,” and “Bill Kristol was my counselor in Zionist summer camp”, with a straight face. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth
]]>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:01:06 GMTKarinaKarina on SpoutBlog11/13/2008 12:01:06 AM It finally happened: my obsession with MSNBC has dovetailed with legitimate movie news! Sort of! Tonight the New York Times broke the news that over a year ago, Dan Mirvish (filmmaker and co-founder of the Slamdance Film Festival) and Eitan Gorlin (whose directorial debut, The Holy Land, won the Grand Jury Prize at that festival and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award) made up a fake adviser to John McCain named Martin Eisenstadt. On Monday, MSNBC’s David Schuster reported on air that Martin Eisenstadt had taken credit for the “Palin thinks Africa is a country” leak. Eisenstadt had indeed published a post on his blog (tagline: “Because freedom isn’t free”) claiming to be the leaker, which no one at MSNBC bothered to look into deeply before Schuster’s report, otherwise they might have discovered that Eisenstadt a) is a made up person, and b) didn’t actually talk to Carl Cameron, the Fox news reporter who broke the “anonymous sources say Palin doesn’t know Africa is a continent” story. MSNBC weren’t the only ones snowed – The Huffington Post, The National Review and The Los Angeles Times have all previously used Eisenstadt’s made-up blog full of made-up insider information as a source. TV Newser started digging into the story yesterday; they posted an email “from” “Eisenstadt” which, in retrospect, probably should have tipped all of us off. “It’s strange for me (and all a bit Hegelian) to get requests to prove that I exist,” writes “Martin,” before insisting that “every single blog that says I am a ‘hoax’ has emanated from a single, bitter individual who for some reason has a vendetta against me - a golf blogger allegedly named ‘Wolfrum.’” William K. Wolfrum’s blog looks so overtly hoaxy that it might actually be not a hoax … except that at the end of the Times story,”Wolfrum” himself seems to imply that he doesn’t actually exist. I think. In any case, above you can watch the first part of a fake BBC documentary Mirvish and Gorlin produced about Eisenstadt, called The Last Republican. Gorlin plays the, uh, titular lead, and he does a superb job of saying things like, “We can bomb every rainforest back into prehistory, but we’ve got to have some kind of economic model that people can embrace,” and “Bill Kristol was my counselor in Zionist summer camp”, with a straight face. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/11/13/37270.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 11/13/2008 12:00:53 AM
Body: It finally happened: my obsession with MSNBC has dovetailed with legitimate movie news! Sort of! Tonight the New York Times broke the news that over a year ago, Dan Mirvish (filmmaker and co-founder of the Slamdance Film Festival) and Eitan Gorlin (whose directorial debut, The Holy Land, won the Grand Jury Prize at that festival and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award) made up a fake adviser to John McCain named Martin Eisenstadt. On Monday, MSNBC’s David Schuster reported on air that Martin Eisenstadt had taken credit for the “Palin thinks Africa is a country” leak. Eisenstadt had indeed published a post on his blog (tagline: “Because freedom isn’t free”) claiming to be the leaker, which no one at MSNBC bothered to look into deeply before Schuster’s report, otherwise they might have discovered that Eisenstadt a) is a made up person, and b) didn’t actually talk to Carl Cameron, the Fox news reporter who broke the “anonymous sources say Palin doesn’t know Africa is a continent” story. MSNBC weren’t the only ones snowed – The Huffington Post, The National Review and The Los Angeles Times have all previously used Eisenstadt’s made-up blog full of made-up insider information as a source. TV Newser started digging into the story yesterday; they posted an email “from” “Eisenstadt” which, in retrospect, probably should have tipped all of us off. “It’s strange for me (and all a bit Hegelian) to get requests to prove that I exist,” writes “Martin,” before insisting that “every single blog that says I am a ‘hoax’ has emanated from a single, bitter individual who for some reason has a vendetta against me - a golf blogger allegedly named ‘Wolfrum.’” William K. Wolfrum’s blog looks so overtly hoaxy that it might actually be not a hoax … except that at the end of the Times story,”Wolfrum” himself seems to imply that he doesn’t actually exist. I think. In any case, above you can watch the first part of a fake BBC documentary Mirvish and Gorlin produced about Eisenstadt, called The Last Republican. Gorlin plays the, uh, titular lead, and he does a superb job of saying things like, “We can bomb every rainforest back into prehistory, but we’ve got to have some kind of economic model that people can embrace,” and “Bill Kristol was my counselor in Zionist summer camp”, with a straight face. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:00:53 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com11/13/2008 12:00:53 AM It finally happened: my obsession with MSNBC has dovetailed with legitimate movie news! Sort of! Tonight the New York Times broke the news that over a year ago, Dan Mirvish (filmmaker and co-founder of the Slamdance Film Festival) and Eitan Gorlin (whose directorial debut, The Holy Land, won the Grand Jury Prize at that festival and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award) made up a fake adviser to John McCain named Martin Eisenstadt. On Monday, MSNBC’s David Schuster reported on air that Martin Eisenstadt had taken credit for the “Palin thinks Africa is a country” leak. Eisenstadt had indeed published a post on his blog (tagline: “Because freedom isn’t free”) claiming to be the leaker, which no one at MSNBC bothered to look into deeply before Schuster’s report, otherwise they might have discovered that Eisenstadt a) is a made up person, and b) didn’t actually talk to Carl Cameron, the Fox news reporter who broke the “anonymous sources say Palin doesn’t know Africa is a continent” story. MSNBC weren’t the only ones snowed – The Huffington Post, The National Review and The Los Angeles Times have all previously used Eisenstadt’s made-up blog full of made-up insider information as a source. TV Newser started digging into the story yesterday; they posted an email “from” “Eisenstadt” which, in retrospect, probably should have tipped all of us off. “It’s strange for me (and all a bit Hegelian) to get requests to prove that I exist,” writes “Martin,” before insisting that “every single blog that says I am a ‘hoax’ has emanated from a single, bitter individual who for some reason has a vendetta against me - a golf blogger allegedly named ‘Wolfrum.’” William K. Wolfrum’s blog looks so overtly hoaxy that it might actually be not a hoax … except that at the end of the Times story,”Wolfrum” himself seems to imply that he doesn’t actually exist. I think. In any case, above you can watch the first part of a fake BBC documentary Mirvish and Gorlin produced about Eisenstadt, called The Last Republican. Gorlin plays the, uh, titular lead, and he does a superb job of saying things like, “We can bomb every rainforest back into prehistory, but we’ve got to have some kind of economic model that people can embrace,” and “Bill Kristol was my counselor in Zionist summer camp”, with a straight face. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/comingofage/MemberTagFilms.aspxcomingofage
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