Word: bashir
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Film director Ari Folman is probably the only man in Israel whose cartoon image is better known than his real face. On the streets of Tel Aviv, Folman - a tall, grizzled figure - passes by unnoticed. But his animated self, as the protagonist in the film Waltz with Bashir, has seared itself onto the Israeli imagination...
...notion of Folman making a feature-length cartoon starring himself isn't as self-indulgent as it sounds. Waltz with Bashir isn't a whimsical WALL-E?style adventure or a cutesy Disney cartoon. Part documentary and part memoir, it details Folman's odyssey to retrieve the lost memories of his youth as a bewildered soldier under fire in Beirut during the 1982 Lebanon war. Through flashbacks, visits to a psychiatrist and stories told by old war buddies, Folman's animated self follows his real-life quest to remember what happened. (See pictures from the best anime movies...
...Beryl C. D. Lipton ’10, arts chairs Sarah B. Joselow ’10 and Alee L. Lockman ’10, design chairs Daniel E. Herz-Roiphe ’10 and James M. Wilsterman ’10, editorial chairs Asli A. Bashir ’10 and Jamison A. Hill ’10, magazine chairs Andy Y. Lei ’10, information technology chair Alan C. Chiu ’10 and Adam D. Sidman ’10, photography chairs Loren Amor ’10 and Dixon McPhillips...
...Asli A. Bashir '10 and Jamison A. Hill '10, magazine chairs...
...work in two languages, English and Ibo. I have done that from the beginning. ‘Things Fall Apart’ is kind of a celebration of these two languages, what they can do together.” —Staff writer Asli Bashir can be reached at bashir@fas.harvard.edu...