Posted on 05/16/2025 4:19:03 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Cannes (France) (AFP) – Hollywood heavyweights Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Riz Ahmed and Guillermo del Toro have added their names to a letter condemning the film industry's silence on what it called "genocide" in Gaza, the organisers confirmed Friday.
The petition, signed by more than 370 actors and filmmakers, also denounced Israel's killing of Fatima Hassouna, the young Gaza photojournalist featured in the documentary "Put Your Soul in Your Hand and Walk", which premiered at the Cannes film festival Thursday.
The organisers of the letter said the French actor Juliette Binoche, who is chairing the jury at Cannes, also added her name to the letter, along with Rooney Mara, US indie director Jim Jarmusch and "Lupin" star Omar Sy.
"Schindler's List" star Ralph Fiennes as well as Richard Gere, Mark Ruffalo, Guy Pearce, Susan Sarandon, Javier Bardem, and directors David Cronenberg, Pedro Almodovar, Alfonso Cuaron, Mike Leigh said they were "ashamed" of their industry's failure to speak out about Israel's siege of Gaza in the original letter.
In her Cannes speech Tuesday Binoche also referenced the Israeli hostages taken by Palestinian group Hamas in its October 7, 2023 assault on Israel, which sparked the Gaza war.
"Sicko" and "Bowling for Columbine" director Michael Moore and French actor Camille Cottin of "Call My Agent" fame are among other entertainment industry figures who have added their names to the letter since Tuesday.
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Hollywood is run by Jews? WHO KNEW?!? And nobody told me? Vhy didn’t anyone tell me vhat am I chopped livah? Whenever I hear 🐂💩 like this I respond with two words, I WISH! I wish my great great grandfathers were part of this Jewish takeover of Hollywood. OY VAY! I should only be so lucky.
“Lampshading” is when you take a tired (typically TV or movie) trope of some kind and flip it intentionally in a mocking or self-aware manner.
When you used that word referencing someone reading a Nazi publication some can't help connect to the gruesome fact that many lampshades were made from the tanned skins of Holocaust victims - some even showing the numbers tattooed on them.
Probably shows a character fault on my part for connecting what was a coincidental use of language.
Exactly
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