Entries Tagged as 'film'

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Tovarisch I Am Not Dead

Garri Urban was a survivor – not a victim – of both the Holocaust and Gulag. Born in the shtetl (the Jewish rural community) in 1916, he overcame adversity through a mixture of charm, aggression, and chutzpah. Tovarisch.net

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

“What Benedict Hasn’t Said About the Holocaust” James Carroll

“Constantine’s Sword,” a film by Oren Jacoby, has its theatrical premier in New York on the day of the pope’s visit to the Synagogue.* The coincidence has no significance, although, in my mind, it raises these questions. In the film, Oren Jacoby and I show that the dark legacy of Christian antisemitism began to be […]

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

film “Tehilim”: An Interview with Tehilim Director, Raphael Nadjari

The 17th annual New York Jewish Film Festival was thrilled to welcome Tehilim (2007). An official selection of the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, Tehilim depicts an ordinary Jerusalem family confronted with the father’s mysterious disappearance after a car accident. This perceptive and nuanced film explores how the family members deal with such a sudden and […]

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

“Woody Allen Files Lawsuit Over American Apparel Billboard” WSJ

NEW YORK — Filmmaker Woody Allen filed a lawsuit Monday seeking more than $10 million from clothier American Apparel Inc. over unauthorized billboard and online advertisements featuring the actor and director dressed as a rabbi.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, alleges the Los Angeles clothing maker and retailer, without his permission, put […]

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Match & Marry: by Suzannah Warlick.


Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Rabbi Soloveitchik ‘Lonely Man of Faith’

“It was definitely a crazy idea,” Mr. Isenberg, a 31-year-old who has lived in New York for the last decade, said, recalling his approach to Rabbi Schacter about the documentary. “I thought, ‘Who am I to make a film about Rabbi Soloveitchik?’ I felt I didn’t have the seasoning, the skills, the authority to take […]

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Hasidic actor walks off Portman movie

First he couldn’t hold Natalie Portman’s hand - and now a Williamsburg Hasidic Jew-turned-actor has to give up his chance to hit it big in a Hollywood movie.Abe Karpen, 25, a married father of three, was cast as Portman’s husband in “New York I Love You,” a film composed of 12 short stories about love […]

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

‘Beaufort’ director reveals next film

Top Israeli film director (”Beaufort,” “Campfire”) Joseph Cedar’s next film will tell the story of Veit Harlan, the leading German director who worked on behalf of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. As reported over the weekend on the Cinemascope blog, Cedar received the offer to direct the film from Rainer Grupe, a London producer of […]

Friday, February 1st, 2008

film: “You Never Know” Shlomo Carlebach

Screenings(Israel)
demo@nrg.co.il “You Never Know” Shlomo Carlebach

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Dmitriy Salita @”ORTHODOX STANCE”

“Where God & Glory Touch Gloves”
“The greatest Jewish fighter since Samson,” proclaims a handmade sign held aloft in the crowd as junior welterweight boxer Dmitriy Salita enters the ring for a climactic bout in Jason Hutt’s new documentary film “Orthodox Stance.” NYsun

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Dmitriy Salita “ORTHODOX STANCE” trailer

IMDB Rating: 8.7/10
Announcement:Question & Answer Session
With ORTHODOX STANCE director Jason Hutt and prize fighter D. Salita.
Saturday January 26 after the 7:00 pm show
Sunday January 27th after the 3:20pm show.
cinemavillage.com

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Dark Fissures of an Israeli Soldier’s Soul. NYtimes

THE Israeli director Joseph Cedar wrote the first scenes of “Beaufort,” a war movie, while in a military jail. He was incarcerated for a couple of weeks, he said, because he had refused to join his combat unit for a stint of reserve duty. “Not for moral or ideological reasons,” he said. “I just felt […]