Cinema, Art and War: Good Times, Wonderful Times and Arab Israeli Dialogue
Double feature with two films by Lionel Rogosin.
For Good Times, Wonderful Times, Rogosin visited twelve countries in two years to collect images of war atrocities from their archives. These scenes are intercut with others of a luxurious and inconsequential cocktail party in London, thus revealing Western indifference to this violence.
In Arab Israeli Dialogue, a Palestinian poet and an Israeli journalist discuss the possible solutions to a conflict that has been confronting their communities for decades with no end in sight to the territorial tensions they are living with every day.
Good Times, Wonderful Times (United Kingdom and United States I 1965 I 73’ I B/W)
Director: Lionel Rogosin. Screenwriters: Lionel Rogosin, James Vaughan and Tadeusz Makarczyński. Photography: Manny Wynn and Emil Knebel (camera). Editors: Brian Smedley-Aston and Danny Schik. Sound: Stephen Dalby. Music: Chatur Lal, Ram Narayan and Ian Cameron. Cast: Molly Parkin. Producer: Lionel Rogosin.
Arab Israeli Dialogue (United States I 1974 I 40’ I Colour)
Director: Lionel Rogosin. Editor and camera: Louis Brigante. Sound and production: Shunmugam A. Pillay. Assistant editor and producer: Eduardo L. del Río. Cast: Rashed Hussein and Amos Kenan. Producer: Impacte Films.