The International Documentary Association honored Ari Folman’s animated Waltz with Bashir and James Marsh’s Man on Wire in a tie for the best documentaries of 2008 last night. The other nominees included Kassim the Dream, Stranded and Young@Heart.
Waltz with Bashir is a beautifully animated and haunting recount of the 1982 conflict between Israel and Lebanon. [...]

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Who’s so serious now, joking boy?
It was another dismal stretch for new release DVDs last week so the Movies You May Have Missed column took a holiday. We’re back this week with one of our favorite movies of the year and no, we don’t mean that little summer movie about a man who minces around [...]

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