Little-known stories live large on screen
Jewish Journal
September 6, 2013
Several tales largely unknown to mainstream audiences are brought to the fore in many of this fall’s cinematic offerings.
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September 6, 2013
Politics, poetry & pop: An Autumn of literary options
Jonathan Kirsch
September 6, 2013
This fall’s book season brings forth an unusually rich and provocative crop of new works by famous and revered authors, some for children and some for adults, some from abroad, but many from right here in Southern California.
Neil Simon’s ‘Sunshine Boys’: Can he still make us laugh?
Tom Tugend
September 6, 2013
Neil Simon is a close runner-up to William Shakespeare when counting the number of plays turned into movies. But can the works by the Jewish lad from the Bronx prove as durable as the prolific output of the Bard of Avon?
The pioneers: A revealing look at Israel’s early prime ministers
Tom Tugend
September 6, 2013
Moriah Films, the documentary-making arm of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, has bitten off another solid chunk of Israeli history in “The Prime Ministers,” a film based on the lively book of the same title by Yehuda Avner, who doubles as the chief narrator of the two-part production.
‘Einstein on the Beach’ finally hits L.A.’s shore
Rick Schultz
September 6, 2013
The 1976 premiere of “Einstein on the Beach” shook audiences up, recalling the shock at Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” in 1913. There was something incomprehensible, even infuriating, about Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s “Einstein,” but in spite of that — or perhaps, in part, because of it — the work became a landmark, challenging and enlarging traditional ideas and conventions of opera, theater and dance.
Rediscovering Ben-Haim
Rick Schultz
September 6, 2013
In 1920, Paul Frankenburger was 23 and an up-and-coming German conductor and composer. For the next four years, he assisted two of the greatest conductors of the 20th century, Bruno Walter and Hans Knappertsbusch, but by 1933, the Nazis had forced him to immigrate to Palestine. At 36, he had to start over.
Meet ‘The Goldbergs’: Adam Goldberg mines his family’s mishegoss for new sitcom
Naomi Pfefferman
September 6, 2013
Must-see TV: Sitcoms, sex top Fall lineup
Jewish Journal
September 6, 2013
It’s September at last, when summer reruns and C-level realty shows cede their timeslots to returning favorites and new contenders. This fall’s offerings include Jewish connections galore, on and off camera; prolific producers J.J. Abrams, Jerry Bruckheimer and Jonathan Littman are just a few of the series’ creators.
In ‘Zaytoun,’ an unusual alliance
Jewish Journal
September 6, 2013
Beirut, Lebanon, 1982, at the dawn of the Lebanese Civil War: A young Palestinian boy living at the Shatila refugee camp forges an unlikely bond with an Israeli fighter pilot. It is this unlikely encounter in the film “Zaytoun,” directed by renowned Israeli filmmaker Eran Riklis (“The Lemon Tree,” “The Syrian Bride,” “The Human Resources Manager”), that convinced the director he had not, in fact, exhausted his Middle Eastern stories.
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