Filmmaker

Should Documentary Films Have Footnotes?

About a year or so ago I began to think about footnotes. First I wondered if I should write footnotes for the film (NUTS!) I was in the final stages of completing. Then I wondered if footnotes might ...
The Forward

‘Footnote’ Fails To Win Foreign Film Oscar

“Footnote” failed to win Israel’s first Academy Award, coming up short in the best foreign-language film category. The film, directed and written by Joseph Cedar, was beaten out by the Iranian entry, ...
The Film Stage

[Voting Spirit] Talking ‘The Interrupters,’ ‘Footnote,’ ‘Think of Me,’ ‘Drive,’ ‘An African Election,’ ‘A Separation,’ and ‘Circumstance’

Each week within this column Spirit Award voter & film critic Kristy Puchko will offer a keen insight on a new selection of nominees for the 2012 Spirit Awards, along with any garnered ...
Variety

Cedar details his ‘Footnote’

While making “Footnote” (He’arat Shulayim), the story of family antagonism in the world of Talmudic study at Jerusalem’s Hebrew U., Israeli helmer Joseph Cedar found himself obsessed with minutiae.