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. That element adds some novelty to the proceedings, as Sarah is able to take advantage of its built-in GPS when they get lost employ its facial recognition software to identify people and access their social media profiles and use its deadly ray gun technology to incinerate her attackers…just kidding about that last one.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. Read More Lucas Film Fest to Honor Zombie Maestro George Romero With Career Retrospective Here it’s because Sarah’s regular glasses are conveniently stolen and so she’s forced to wear the geeky headset which just happens to also be prescription eyewear. The filmmakers provide a nice twist to the exhausted found-footage genre by coming up with a reasonable explanation of why someone running for her life wouldn’t drop the damned camera and stop filming already. Demonic winged creatures and the occasional giant (the latter barely seen, but whatever) begin terrorizing the frantic populace and transforming them into hideous creatures themselves. That turns out to be not such a good idea, since shortly after their arrival-and several days of hitting the local nightspots, where they meet the friendly Omar (Tom Graziani)–the prophecy of the gate comes true and all hell literally breaks loose. On the plane heading overseas, the two women meet Kevin (Yon Tumarkin), a handsome young archaeologist who persuades them to ditch their plans and instead come with him to Jerusalem. Sarah, still mourning the death of her older brother, has been gifted Google Glass eyewear (the trademarked name is never uttered) by her worried father for the trip. The plot concerns American best friends Sarah (Danielle Jadelyn), and fun-loving Rachel ( Yael Grobglas), who are traveling to Tel Aviv for a summer vacation. Read More China Box Office: ‘ Spectre‘ Has the Competition Shaken and Stirred
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