{"id":8888,"date":"2010-04-10T15:16:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T23:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=8888"},"modified":"2010-04-10T17:27:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T01:27:04","slug":"west-bank-story-ari-sandel-2005-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=8888","title":{"rendered":"West Bank Story (Ari Sandel, 2005): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?author=49\">Kathleen Amboy<\/a>.\u00a0 Viewed on DVD.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_7t1eAHn9QlY\/RyEqElLvTjI\/AAAAAAAABK0\/9omkRtcSAxI\/s400\/westbankstory1.jpg\" alt=\"West Bank Story\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; float: left\" width=\"215\" height=\"258\"\/><\/p>\n<p>What happens when a falafel fast food joint opens up next door to a kosher fast food joint in the West Bank?\u00a0 You end up with a ridiculous love story\/musical which is a hilarious parody of Robert Wise&#8217;s 1961 musical West Side Story, known as <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0438575\/\" target=\"_blank\">West Bank Story<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A Palestinian family owns the Hummus Hut while\u00a0 next door an Israeli family owns the Kosher King and they&#8217;ll do\u00a0what it takes\u00a0to undermine the competing restaurant, like damaging equipment and destroying property.<\/p>\n<p>When the sweet Hummus Hut clerk Fatima (Noureen DeWulf) falls in love with the handsome Israeli guard David (Ben Newmark), they sing out\u00a0&#8220;When I See Him\/Her,&#8221; and the warring between the two businesses escalates, until both burn to the ground.\u00a0 With both restaurants in ruins the customers still need to be fed, leading David and Fatima to convince both families into compromising.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning with the snapping of fingers, through 21 minutes, this short film\u00a0is funny, clever and at no surprise, the 2007 Oscar winner for Best Short Film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Kathleen Amboy.\u00a0 Viewed on DVD. What happens when a falafel fast food joint opens up next door to a kosher fast food joint in the West Bank?\u00a0 You end up with a ridiculous love story\/musical which is a hilarious parody of Robert Wise&#8217;s 1961 musical West Side Story, known as West Bank Story. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,3,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvd","category-films","category-short-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}