Amir Bar-Lev Articles

Tribeca Film Festival 2011 Jury: Whoopi Goldberg, Patrick Wilson, Souleymane Cissé, Michael Cera 2011 Tribeca Film Festival jurors and their respective categories. World Competition Categories: The jurors for the 2011 World Narrative Competition are: Souleymane Cissé: Noted Malian director; films include the 1995 Cannes Palme d’Or nominee Waati, 1987 Cannes Jury Prize Winner Brightness and Tell Me Who You Are. Scott Glenn: Actor; films include [...]

Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams in Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine Michelle Williams as Best Actress for Derek Cianfrance's controversial drama Blue Valentine and John Hawkes as Best Supporting Actor for Debra Granik's Winter's Bone were the two most unusual picks among the San Francisco Film Critics Circle's 2010 award winners. Additionally, Amir Bar-Lev's The Tillman Story, about the military cover-up and deception following the death of [...]

Pat Tillman (left) in Amir Bar-Lev's The Tillman Story The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences haven't officially released their longlist of Best Documentary Feature contenders for the 2011 Oscars, but the 15-film list has already been circulating online thanks to a leak (see "update" below) somewhere inside the Academy. (Deadline was the first site to publish the list; others have followed suit since.) [...]

Pat Tillman as shown in Amir Bar-Lev's The Tillman Story (top); Flora and David in Lisa Leeman's One Lucky Elephant (middle); Jesper Christensen in Pernille Fischer Christensen's A Family (bottom) The documentaries One Lucky Elephant and The Tillman Story, Pernille Fischer Christensen's A Family, and Hossein Keshavarz's Dog Sweat are a few of the highlights at the Los Angeles Film Festival on Saturday evening, June [...]