Janette Sato
The Pundit 2006 Reviews »
When Palestinian-Australian filmmaker Sherine Salama learnt of Yasser Arafat’s perilous situation, she travelled to his besieged Ramallah compound with her handheld camera in tow. After months of friendly banter with Arafat’s guards and pleading with his aids to give her access, Salama gets her interview. It turns out to be the last the Fatah leader gives.
The film isn’t overly political or depressing. You forget about suicide bombers and the Israeli army because they’re not mentioned. Instead, Salama shows us a little-known side of Arafat. His eyes twinkle, he grins and …
The Pundit 2006 Reviews »
When you think of sports North Americans are crazy about, soccer doesn’t come very high on the list. ‘We don’t have the attention span for a game that is continuous and free flowing as soccer,’ said one sports journo. ‘We need the artificial stops and starts to indulge in beer and chips.’
But in the days of flares and short shorts, soccer was huge. And this film is evidence of it. It follows the rise and fall of the New York Cosmos, America’s all-star soccer team that shot to fame in …
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