Nuart Retrospective Presents the War Documentaries of Bernard-Henri Lévy
Gerri Miller
January 21, 2020
Category
documentaries
An Oscar overview of all things Semitic
Tom Tugend
November 19, 2015
How foreign volunteers fought to get the fledgling Israeli Air Force off the ground and the antics of the Last of the Red Hot Mamas are two of the storylines explored by documentary filmmakers vying for a 2016 Oscar.
The Israel Film Festival gives locals a glimpse of Israel’s soul
Tom Tugend
September 18, 2014
The Israel Film Festival (IFF), which annually gives viewers a close-up of the nation’s heartbeat beneath the glaring headlines, has been set for Oct. 23 through Nov. 6.
A season of documentaries
Jewish Journal
September 21, 2011
This autumn offers a boutique collection of documentaries with wide-ranging and enticing themes. Two of them, in particular, stand out.
The ‘Boys’ at the Front
Tom Tugend
December 30, 2004
Angress was one of \”The Ritchie Boys,\” a special Army unit made up mainly of young Jewish refugees from Germany, whose World War II exploits have been recorded for the first time in a documentary by German filmmaker Christian Bauer.\n\nThe German-Canadian co-production is one of 12 documentaries still in competition for Academy Award honors.
Polito-tainment: Movies as Diatribes
David Finnigan
August 26, 2004
When Canadian Jewish filmmaker Mark Achbar decided which talking heads would discuss business history in his new, capitalist-critiquing film, \”The Corporation,\” the lineup was a quartet of four Jewish left intellectuals, including Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn.
\”And that wasn\’t done consciously,\” Achbar told The Journal by telephone from his Vancouver home. \”It\’s just that these happened to be the most articulate spokespersons for this critique.\”
Lights, Camera, Israel
Tom Tugend
April 4, 2002
Los Angeles will welcome the 18th Annual Israel Film Festival this month, with 31 Israeli feature films, documentaries, TV dramas and student shorts to be screened at Laemmle\’s Music Hall Theater in Beverly Hills and at Laemmle\’s Town Center 5 in Encino.
Tune In to Israel
Tom Tugend
September 27, 2001
A newly formed Israel-based television network has begun transmitting programs around the clock to expatriates in the United States and Canada and to anyone else who want to stay in touch with news, education, music, sports and sitcoms in the Jewish State.
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