Word: fictionalizes
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...surprise here. The director's four or five previous features - Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown and the Kill Bill tandem - paid elaborate homage to, and ran elegant twists on, action films by otherwise-forgotten journeymen who were in no recognized sense auteurs; they were no-teurs. That's been a tonic corrective to the received wisdom about films: that, yes, there are still pearls worth diving for; you just have to look in ranker, more roiled waters. Hence, Vanishing Point's Richard Sarafian, and John Hough of Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, and a true indie daredevil, H.B. Halicki...
...zones in general, there was a way that, firsthand, those sort of experiences are actually more profound than politics,” Robbins says.The cinematic re-creations of the featured writings do not simply show stoic-faced soldiers reading letters home. Instead, the writings vary from poetry and fiction to memoirs and essays, with the accompanying visuals stylized to match the tone and form of the writer, including animation, still photographs, and slow motion video. “We were really just trying to create an aesthetic for each piece that felt like a companion to the way the soldiers...
...their state's martial heritage. For all his imaginative pyrotechnics, Keret's aim is engage his reader with the everyday oddness of Israel. "I would call it subjective realism," he says of his bizarre storylines. "I am trying to show things the way they feel." Overwhelmingly, in Keret's fiction, things feel edgy. Throughout Missing Kissinger, there is the sense of the dark slap-shtick of a country where, through dumb luck, a coffee in the wrong café could spell death by suicide bomber...
...quick-fix fiction has won Keret plaudits and fame. Missing Kissinger, his breakthrough book, came out in 1994 (published in the U.K. and the U.S. this March, most of the stories here appear for the first time in English). It was chosen as one of the 50 most important works in Hebrew by the daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, and is on the Israeli high school syllabus. Keret now pens caustic satirical sketches for Israeli TV, has published a series of comic books and won Israel's equivalent of a Best Picture Oscar for Skin Deep, a movie he co-directed...
...political stance - more accurately, the absence of an explicit ideology in his fiction - has led to clashes with Israel's literary grandees. "I'm a very political writer," he says. "But my idea of politics is different from the previous generation's. When people say that I am not political, they mean that my stories don't have a political bottom line...