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The Schmooze Christian Petzold Reflects on His Holocaust Revenge Film, ‘Phoenix’
Christian Petzold’s “Phoenix,” a beautifully crafted film noir, is one of two relatively recent Holocaust-related films that showcases revenge exacted with gusto by Jewish women characters — the other being Quentin Tarantino’s gory 2009 World War II action flick, ”Inglourious Basterds.” A fascinating, welcome addition to the post WWII cinema arena, “Phoenix” is an unfolding mystery…
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The Schmooze A Chat With Nadav Lapid, Director of ‘The Kindergarten Teacher’
I looked forward to the interview with ”The Kindergarten Teacher”’s Israeli filmmaker writer/director Nadav Lapid when he arrived the day before the July 31st opening of his somewhat autobiographical film. I had so many questions about the 5-year-old poet savant Yoav (intensely portrayed by Avi Shnaidman) and the obsessed-with-his-genius kindergarten teacher the sensitive, seductive Nira…
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Film & TV David Foster Wallace Wouldn’t Approve Of Me Loving This Movie. Too Bad.
Let’s get this out of the way — I never finished “Infinite Jest. “ (As a friend recently put it, “Has anyone really?” ) In fact, any guy who listed the book among his favorites was automatically flagged as untrustworthy on my OkCupid scale of dateability. But it seems that some humans have made it…
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The Schmooze 5 Reasons Adam Sandler Went From Fame to Lame
His new comedy, “Pixels,” opened over the weekend to a mediocre $24 million, a disappointing result for the $88 million project. Sandler’s latest box office lemon comes on the heels of (Sandler’s lowest-grossing title ever, which opened to just $24,000 from 20 theaters in March), 2014’s “Blended” (the Drew Barrymore reteaming that mustered $46 million),…
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Film & TV Your Guide to This Year’s Jerusalem Film Festival
Founded in 1984, the Jerusalem Film Festival is a baby compared to its European counterparts Venice (1932), Cannes (1946), and Berlin (1951). Israel’s second-oldest film festival after Haifa (founded a year earlier) and the fourth oldest in the Middle East after Cairo (1976) and Damascus (1979), the JFF has become increasingly robust, exciting and ambitious…
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Film & TV How Do You Talk God Out of The Apocalypse? Ask Eli Shapiro.
Jewish humor is safe, even in these modern times. Writer/director Eli Shapiro, a young New Jerseyite living in the Big City, is upholding the tradition of somewhat cynical, yet utterly thoughtful social commentary in the name of comedy: his recent short film, “Ike Interviews God,” portrays a wholly average insurance clerk in conversation with an…
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Culture Jason Schwartzman Talks Stripping and Swinging on ‘The Overnight’
About halfway through “The Overnight,” a raunchy comedy romp released on Friday, Adam Scott and Jason Schwartzman strip down and dance completely naked. Oddly enough, that’s actually not one of the most outrageous scenes of the film, which takes two married couples on a boozy, trippy journey of exploration and self-discovery. It all starts out…
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Breaking News Women-Only London Film Screening for Ultra-Orthodox Scrapped
An all woman’s screening at a London JCC of an Israeli movie by a haredi Orthodox film-maker was cancelled after a complaint to the country’s the Equalities and Human Rights Commission. “Gift of Fire” directed by Rechy Elias, was scheduled to be shown as part of the Israeli Film and Television Festival, Seret 2015. A…
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