Gas up the Learjets and break out the Moncler vests, it’s time for corporate chieftains to let their hair down, as only the one percent of the one percent knows how.
Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, Warner Bros. Discovery honcho David Zaslav, Paramount Global chair Shari Redstone, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Apple head Tim Cook, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates are heading to Idaho in July to attend the annual “summer camp for moguls,” known more formally as Sun Valley. And Bob Iger, back on the throne at the Walt Disney Company, will also be touching down in the resort town after a brief, unhappy (for shareholders) interregnum. They’ll be mixing and mingling with other media barons, Silicon Valley heavyweights and political players at the media finance retreat hosted by Allen & Co.
Among those getting tapped to dust off their Brooks Brothers casual wear are two former treasury secretaries,...
Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, Warner Bros. Discovery honcho David Zaslav, Paramount Global chair Shari Redstone, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Apple head Tim Cook, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates are heading to Idaho in July to attend the annual “summer camp for moguls,” known more formally as Sun Valley. And Bob Iger, back on the throne at the Walt Disney Company, will also be touching down in the resort town after a brief, unhappy (for shareholders) interregnum. They’ll be mixing and mingling with other media barons, Silicon Valley heavyweights and political players at the media finance retreat hosted by Allen & Co.
Among those getting tapped to dust off their Brooks Brothers casual wear are two former treasury secretaries,...
- 6/8/2023
- by Brent Lang and Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Writer/director Dror Moreh’s film, The Human Factor, is a simultaneously riveting and illuminating examination of American foreign policy in the Middle East since the mid-1980s and through to the promise of the attempt summit at Camp David near the end of Bill Clinton’s tenure as president. This is simply an incredibly poignant and timely film that illustrates how this region has shaped American foreign policy for the better part of a quarter century.
The Human Factor is a look behind the curtain with those individuals within the United States government whose job it was to attempt to secure peace between Israel and its neighboring countries to establish a Palestinian homeland. But, what makes The Human Factor a more universal treatise on human nature is the approach it takes to the stance of learning from the mistakes of the past so that they are not perpetuated well into the future.
The Human Factor is a look behind the curtain with those individuals within the United States government whose job it was to attempt to secure peace between Israel and its neighboring countries to establish a Palestinian homeland. But, what makes The Human Factor a more universal treatise on human nature is the approach it takes to the stance of learning from the mistakes of the past so that they are not perpetuated well into the future.
- 5/10/2021
- by Mike Tyrkus
- CinemaNerdz
Left to right: Ehud Barak, Bill Clinton and Yasser Arafat at Camp David, in July 2000.
Photo credit: William J. Clinton Presidential Library. Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the most intractable the world has seen. The Human Factor focuses on the effort to bring a resolution to that conflict through negotiations mediated by the U.S., but particularly on the human side, the human factor, in that effort. Interestingly, it is also presented from the viewpoint of the guys in the middle, the American mediators, rather than the two sides in the conflict. The result is an engrossing, surprisingly gripping documentary that makes one ache for what might have been.
The Human Factor is also a revealing documentary about the long-running effort to resolve the conflict, that offers up remarkable insights, some unexpected humorous moments, and many fascinating details about the process and the personalities involved.
Photo credit: William J. Clinton Presidential Library. Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the most intractable the world has seen. The Human Factor focuses on the effort to bring a resolution to that conflict through negotiations mediated by the U.S., but particularly on the human side, the human factor, in that effort. Interestingly, it is also presented from the viewpoint of the guys in the middle, the American mediators, rather than the two sides in the conflict. The result is an engrossing, surprisingly gripping documentary that makes one ache for what might have been.
The Human Factor is also a revealing documentary about the long-running effort to resolve the conflict, that offers up remarkable insights, some unexpected humorous moments, and many fascinating details about the process and the personalities involved.
- 5/7/2021
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Human Factor Sony Pictures Classics Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Dror Moreh Cast: Dennis Ross, Martin Indyk, Gamal Helal, Aaron David Miller, Daniel C. Kurtzer Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 4/22/21 Opens: May 7, 2021 What makes for great diplomacy? Consider these two schools of thought. […]
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- 5/2/2021
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Documentarian Dror Moreh’s new film, The Human Factor, is a riveting and illuminating examination of American foreign policy in the Middle East since the mid-1980s and through to the promise of the attempt summit at Camp David near the end of Bill Clinton’s tenure as president. This is an incredibly poignant and timely film that illustrates how this region has shaped American foreign policy for the better part of a quarter century.
The Human Factor is a look behind the curtain with those individuals within the United States government whose job it was to attempt to secure peace between Israel and its neighboring countries to establish a Palestinian homeland. But, what makes The Human Factor a more universal treatise on human nature is the approach it takes to the stance of learning from the mistakes of the past so that they are not perpetuated well into the future.
The Human Factor is a look behind the curtain with those individuals within the United States government whose job it was to attempt to secure peace between Israel and its neighboring countries to establish a Palestinian homeland. But, what makes The Human Factor a more universal treatise on human nature is the approach it takes to the stance of learning from the mistakes of the past so that they are not perpetuated well into the future.
- 1/23/2021
- by Mike Tyrkus
- CinemaNerdz
For Dror Moreh, making “The Human Factor” was all about taking viewers into the room where it happens. The documentary chronicles the 30-year effort to achieve peace in the Middle East between Israeli, Palestinian and U.S. leaders, told through the unique perspectives of six American negotiators who were indeed in the rooms where they tried and failed to make peace happen.
“Normally when we get to understanding diplomacy, we are getting the photo ops or sound bites that those types of politicians give us,” Moreh tells Gold Derby at our Meet the Btl Experts: Documentary panel (watch above). “Since there’s been so many movies for me, as an Israeli, about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or the Israeli-Arab conflict from both sides, I was fed up with this kind of point of view. … For me, the American negotiators were the professionals in the rooms, were with the leaders and could tell me a different story,...
“Normally when we get to understanding diplomacy, we are getting the photo ops or sound bites that those types of politicians give us,” Moreh tells Gold Derby at our Meet the Btl Experts: Documentary panel (watch above). “Since there’s been so many movies for me, as an Israeli, about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or the Israeli-Arab conflict from both sides, I was fed up with this kind of point of view. … For me, the American negotiators were the professionals in the rooms, were with the leaders and could tell me a different story,...
- 1/19/2021
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
The Middle East peace process has long proved to be an elusive riddle for dignitaries and denizens alike. Dror Moreh’s “The Human Factor” seeks to demystify decades of negotiations through the eyes of those who were there.
Focusing on the past 25 years, this film is an unprecedented look into how close the world has come to what is commonly touted as an unattainable goal. Negotiators Dennis Ross, Martin Indyk, Gamal Helal, Aaron David Miller, Daniel Kurtzer, and Robert Malley help put the historic moments in perspective as they represent different administrations.
Continue reading ‘The Human Factor’ Trailer: New Doc Pulls The Curtain Back On The Middle East Peace Negotiations at The Playlist.
Focusing on the past 25 years, this film is an unprecedented look into how close the world has come to what is commonly touted as an unattainable goal. Negotiators Dennis Ross, Martin Indyk, Gamal Helal, Aaron David Miller, Daniel Kurtzer, and Robert Malley help put the historic moments in perspective as they represent different administrations.
Continue reading ‘The Human Factor’ Trailer: New Doc Pulls The Curtain Back On The Middle East Peace Negotiations at The Playlist.
- 11/12/2020
- by Valerie Thompson
- The Playlist
There’s a certain group of documentary-loving policy wonks who’ll be clamoring for “The Human Factor,” with its nostalgic spotlight on a time when the U.S. understood the value of international diplomacy (how quaint that now sounds!). For director Dror Moreh, making a film about the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations was a natural follow-up to his well-received “The Gatekeepers,” in which Israeli security agents spoke of their work and Moreh exposed conflicting rationales and troubling moral relativity. His latest documentary, while potentially more sellable, is far more problematic, on multiple fronts.
First, there’s his decision to see the conflict only through the eyes of six negotiators for the Americans, several of whom admit to a latent Israeli bias. Then there’s the problematic way Yasser Arafat is presented, depicted as usual as petulant and childish, with no recognition that his insistence on being treated with respect was at...
First, there’s his decision to see the conflict only through the eyes of six negotiators for the Americans, several of whom admit to a latent Israeli bias. Then there’s the problematic way Yasser Arafat is presented, depicted as usual as petulant and childish, with no recognition that his insistence on being treated with respect was at...
- 8/31/2019
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
Things could get awkward at Sun Valley, the annual gathering of moguls and media barons taking place next month in Idaho.
Shari Redstone and Leslie Moonves, currently locked in a fierce battle for control of CBS that has them trading legal jabs and corporate put-downs on a daily basis, have both been invited to the one-percent confab. By the time Sun Valley takes place in July, Moonves may have succeeded in his plan to dilute the Redstone family’s control of CBS and prevent a shotgun merger with Viacom. If he fails, he could be out of a job.
Viacom CEO and Redstone favorite Bob Bakish’s name does not appear on the list.
Redstone and Moonves aren’t the only big names gassing up the private jets and hitting Idaho for Allen & Co.’s annual media conference. Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon head Jeff Bezos, General Motors CEO Mary Barra,...
Shari Redstone and Leslie Moonves, currently locked in a fierce battle for control of CBS that has them trading legal jabs and corporate put-downs on a daily basis, have both been invited to the one-percent confab. By the time Sun Valley takes place in July, Moonves may have succeeded in his plan to dilute the Redstone family’s control of CBS and prevent a shotgun merger with Viacom. If he fails, he could be out of a job.
Viacom CEO and Redstone favorite Bob Bakish’s name does not appear on the list.
Redstone and Moonves aren’t the only big names gassing up the private jets and hitting Idaho for Allen & Co.’s annual media conference. Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon head Jeff Bezos, General Motors CEO Mary Barra,...
- 6/1/2018
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
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