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...most recent Academy Awards ceremony surely marked the ascendancy of independent filmmaking; four of the five best picture nominees were indies, and the lone big-budget picture—Spielberg??s “Munich”—yielded anemic box office results and failed to snag the top prize...
...impossible to dissociate “Munich” with the U.S. thanks to the closing shot of the Twin Towers. I admit that I am completely perplexed as to what happened with “Munich.” Spielberg??s previously Academy-ignored flirtations with controversy also include “Amistad” (I’m still trying to figure out how the “Full Monty” director got nominated above Steven) and, yes, “The Color Purple.” But I optimistically assumed a movie this emotionally...
...first, by Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, was prompted by the release of Steven Spielberg??s film “Munich,” which portrays Israel’s efforts to avenge the murders of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games by the terrorist group Black September...
...Dershowitz attacked Spielberg??s film for what he saw as its confusion about the causes of terrorism. Dershowitz wrote that Spielberg attempts to link the Israelis who tracked and killed the Black September terrorists and future terror attacks against Western nations, and that Spielberg was mistaken in his suggestion that the “counterterrorism only incites more terrorism...
Directed by Steven SpielbergUniversal Pictures4 Stars“Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values,” says Israel’s then Prime Minister Golda Meir (Lynn Cohen) in Steven Spielberg??s controversial new film, “Munich.” She utters these words immediately before authorizing the assassination of the Palestinians her Secret Service hold responsible for the Black September terrorist attack against Israeli athletes during the 1972 Olympics in Munich. Her pronouncement raises a philosophical question that the remainder of the film struggles to answer: to what...