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August 26, 2004

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.\”

Russian Emigre’s Tales of New World

Sandee Brawarsky August 26, 2004

The three A\’s in \”Natasha\” are filled in by tiny stylized Matryoshka dolls, the traditional Russian stacking dolls, on the book jacket of David Bezmozgis\’ radiant debut (Farrar Straus and Giroux, $18).

In this collection of linked stories, the three figures at the center are a mother, father and son who leave Riga, Latvia, for Toronto, Canada. The stories are told from the point of view of the son, Mark Berman, who observes everything and helps interpret the New World for his parents.

Short Films, Big Messages

Naomi Pfefferman August 26, 2004

In Sidney Lumet\’s searing short film, \”The Rachel Aria,\” a fanatical Jew tears a Torah scroll while making a horrific vow: He\’s decided to let himself and his adopted child be boiled alive rather than convert to Christianity; he won\’t save her by revealing she\’s actually the daughter of the cardinal, his arch-nemesis.

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