Sontag Goes to Israel

Promised Lands, Susan Sontag’s 1974 look at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict just after the Yom Kippur War of 1973, is playing at Anthology until the 10th.  In anticipation, both L Magazine and The Village Voice have dedicated some space in their publications (or at the very least, their websites) to looking at the film. One thing that Voice writer Michael Atkinson said in particular sticks out to me: “today, the movie seems more remarkable as a Sontag artifact than as political […]

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