Schwinging start to the Jewish Film Festival
Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Quincy Jones, Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock… If you’re a jazz fan, you know these names. They are the stars shining in the jazzosphere of Blue Note Records. And...
‘I’ve always been seen by other people as Jewish’
My experience of comedians is that they’re rarely funny to meet. I’ve interviewed Ben Stiller, Bobcat Goldthwait, Ricky Gervais, Rob Schneider, Robin Williams and Woody Allen, and they were all interesting, intelligent individuals, but...
17th Annual Jewish Film Festival Raises Awareness of Identity, Culture
With a strong message of promoting “Jewish values and diversity through the medium of film,” the Barshop Jewish Community Center in San Antonio will “raise community awareness of Jewish identity, history and culture” with...
The Past Hasn’t Even Begun To Pass
Fugitive Pieces, a 2007 is a film streaming on Amazon Prime, spans a period of roughly 35 years, beginning in 1942 and concluding the late 1970s. At the outset, Jakob Beer (Robbie Kay) the protagonist...
The Holocaust’s Impacts on Survivors’ Children
A Generation Apart, a 1983 Holocaust documentary streaming on paid Amazon Prime, explores the impact of the Holocaust on the families of the survivors.
You may wonder why I have chosen this film for this week’s...
Holocaust drama ‘The Camp’ among productions being presented in Boca Raton
Both current Boca Raton productions, "The Camp," a drama set in the Holocaust-era, running now through Dec. 17 at the Levis Jewish Community Center and the musical "She Loves Me," running now through Dec. 23 at...
Catch the Holocaust before it disappears
If you’re a Jew looking for sympathy in these sucker-punch days of hyper-antisemitism, find a way to transport yourself back to the early 1990s, a time when Holocaust memory—“Schindler’s List”; the opening of the...
Streaming movies about American racial violence
The Birth of a Nation: Not to be confused with the racist silent film of the same title, this is a reconstruction of the Nat Turner rebellion. Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube
Black Wall...
Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre sets Jewish Film Series
Food, music and politics define the Jewish Film Series that launches this weekend at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington.
The series is less an official event than an ad hoc grouping of good movies...
A David and Goliath battle: Acclaimed documentary by Northampton filmmaker tells the story of...
‘Labor of love” might be a cliche. But when it comes to her new film, “Four Winters: A Story of Jewish Partisan Resistance and Bravery During WWII,” Julia Mintz says the expression is very much...