Fill the Void (movie)

Jun 16 (TheWrap.com) - Writer-director Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring" made off with a strong $210,001 from just five locations in its debut this weekend for distributor A24. That's a strong $42,000 per-theater average for the crime comedy, which...

An elegant miniature, Rama Burshtein's "Fill the Void" labors under a narrative inevitability, but it's artful work nonetheless. We're in the hushed confines and spaces of the ultra-Orthodox community of Tel Aviv. Barely 18, the daughter of a rabbi,...

The Israeli film renaissance that began more than a decade ago with "Late Marriage" is nowhere near its end. The latest evidence: "Fill the Void," a transfixing, emotionally complex drama that won the Venice Film Festival's lead actress award for Hadas...

Israeli writer-director Rama Burshtein felt a lot of pressure graduating from the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem two decades ago because everyone expected great things from her. "They said, 'She is a promise,"' recalled Burshtein,...

May 24 (TheWrap.com) - Summer is the busiest time of year at the multiplexes, with the major studios throwing wannabe blockbusters at every open date and big-budget sequels gobbling up all available screens. For indie films, it's the perfect time of...

A mother and daughter anxiously scan the aisles of an Israeli supermarket. They're not looking for fresh produce but rather a clandestine glimpse of a young man a matchmaker has proposed as a potential husband for the daughter. The mother's eye is...

The Golden Globes aren't the only awards being presented Sunday: The 24th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival announced its winners on Sunday afternoon. Wayne Blair's "The Sapphires," an Australian musical-drama about an all-female...