A website called cinemascope is reporting that Israel has chosen Ari Folman’s “Waltz with Bashir” to represent the country in the foreign film Oscar race. Very wise. Nice to see animated films getting this kind of an awards push, what with “Persepolis” repping France last year. Let’s just hope “Waltz” doesn’t get the shaft like “Persepolis” and “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” last year from a majorly disfunctional branch of the Academy.
Guy, by the way, has been doing a nice job of wrangling the foreign film news lately, so keep it hear as updates keep coming.