Gotham Gal has noted what looks line an interesting film

Waltz with Bashir  http://waltzwithbashir.com/

There are so many movies out right now…and good ones.  That hasn’t happened in quite a long time.  What is interesting is how many movies are coming out that are about the Holocaust.  Why now?  Is it the second generation of children of parents or grandparents that were in the Holocaust and they are interested in making these films so we don’t forget or because growing up with a survivor made such an impact on their life?

Last night Fred and I went to see Waltz with Bashir.  Although it isn’t directly about the Holocaust, it is a movie by a Jewish film maker who had parents that survived Auschwitz.  He, himself, was a soldier in the Lebanon war.  The movie is about that experience.  How he had forgotten what his involvement was and how 20 years later those memories are beginning to crop up.   Gotham Gal  2009

Randa Jarrar is a novelist, short story writer, and translator. Her first novel, A Map of Home, won the Hopwood and Geoffrey James Gosling Awards at the University of Michigan, where she received her MFA. The novel will also be published in Taiwan, Germany, Israel, China, and Italy. Jarrar’s short fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Hunger Mountain, Duck & Herring, Eyeshot, online, and in numerous anthologies. Her translations from the Arabic have appeared in numerous anthologies including Words Without Borders: The World Through the Eyes of Writers. She translated the acclaimed Lebanese novel, Year of the Revolutionary New Bread-Making Machine (Saqi/Telegram Books). She’s a columnist at Make/Shift magazine. Currently, she lives in Ann Arbor with her son Angelo, her fiance* Russell, and their cat, Mahatma Boots.

http://randajarrar.com/2009/01/10/talk-don’t-shoot-talk/

Gotham Gal.

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