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Menahem Golan Interview

By Oren Shai • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Writings

An interview I conducted with Menahem Golan was posted at Films In Review today. A conversation about independent cinema, Cannon, Roger Corman, Chuck Norris, John Cassavetes, Godard and more…
INTERVIEW: MENAHEM GOLAN
Menahem Golan is approaching his 80th year and showing no sign of stopping. His latest film came out in July, he is trying to get [...]



The Poontachat Music Video

By Oren Shai • Aug 8th, 2008 • Category: Music Videos

A few days ago we wrapped the shoot of a music video based on the latest Adam Sandler film, “You Don’t Mess With The Zohan”.
The video was directed by Tom Shoval and myself and starred Rob Schneider and Ido Mosserri, who also sings the song.
A couple of reports can be found at Yair Raveh’s Cinemascopian.
Photo [...]



New Article in FIR: HOW TO STUFF A LEMON POPSICLE

By Oren Shai • Aug 5th, 2008 • Category: Writings

My new article was just posted at Films In Review.
HOW TO STUFF A LEMON POPSICLE
LEMON POPSICLE @ 30: Celebrating the legacy of the Israeli film series that took over Germany, Japan and was remade in America. “I was 17 and she was only 16. We laid on the beach and listened to Elvis. The moon [...]



The New ‘Films In Review’

By Oren Shai • Jul 23rd, 2008 • Category: Updates

For the past few months I have been working on revamping the Films In Review website. FIR is edited and owned by Roy Frumkes, who took it over in 1996. Formerly it was the film publication of the National Board of Review.
In addition to the new design, articles from the magazine’s 50+ years in print [...]



‘Heavy Soul’ Streaming on IMDB

By Oren Shai • May 31st, 2008 • Category: Updates

‘Heavy Soul’ is now available for viewing on IMDB as a streaming video:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800062/
The IMDB Theaters section seems to only work in certain regions, if it doesn’t, it is available for viewing below…

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New Article in “Ma’aravon” Magazine

By Oren Shai • Mar 7th, 2008 • Category: Updates, Writings

A new article I wrote about Russ Meyer has just been published in “Ma’aravon”, Israel’s leading cinema magazine.
A list of stores which keep it appears at Maayan Website (Hebrew).



A Violent Professional

By Oren Shai • Mar 2nd, 2008 • Category: Updates, Writings

My review of the book “A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi” is now up at Films In Review.
Read it here



“Heavy Soul” Is Online

By Oren Shai • Sep 9th, 2007 • Category: Heavy Soul, Updates

Uploaded my short film, “Heavy Soul” to the server - The full 14 minutes.
Watch It Here



Exploitation a Go-Go

By Oren Shai • Jul 12th, 2007 • Category: Updates, Writings

The following are scans from two articles I recently wrote for the Israeli paper, “Ha’ir”. They are in Hebrew.
The First was a review of Quentin Tarantino’s DEATH PROOF. But it centers about the history of American exploitation cinema.
The Second is an overview of 3 Italian Exploitation genres - Spaghetti Westerns, Polizieschi and Giallo.
The images are [...]



“Before Elvis, there was Nothing”

By Oren Shai • Mar 17th, 2007 • Category: Updates, Writings

Yesterday marked the 30th anniversary to the death of Elvis Presley. Last week “Ha’Ir” paper in Israel published my article in tribute of The King and it was just posted on their website as well:
Read here (Hebrew)



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