A small but vocal group of demonstrators rallied outside Paramount Pictures in Hollywood last week, wielding signs and chanting slogans like \”Jodie Foster wants to glorify a Nazi\” and \”Stop Jodie\’s project now.\”
As a child, Mimi Leder used to ask about the faded blue numbers on her mother\’s arm. \”It\’s just a tattoo,\” her mother, Etyl, a classical pianist, would say. \”I was 10 before she told me the truth, and to be honest, that was not old enough,\” the director recalls.
\”People think I\’m being facetious when I say I once toyed with a life of crime,\” filmmaker Woody Allen recently told 1,400 students, professors and alumni during a standing-room-only screening of his new comedy, \”Small Time Crooks,\” at UCLA\’s Wadsworth Theater.
Renowned Israeli director Amos Gitai acknowledges that his film, \”Kadosh,\” raises ire in segments of the observant community. \”It\’s critical of certain elements of Jewish tradition that I consider to be reactionary,\” says the filmmaker, whose movie tells of two oppressed Orthodox women in Jerusalem\’s Mea Shearim. \”But it\’s not a total denial. It\’s precise.\”
Cult filmmaker Sarah Jacobson can one-up any L.A. Jewish reader who felt like an outcast in high school.
The news of director Stanley Kubrick\’s death in England is a premature finis to an unprecedented career in film.
Cult filmmaker Sarah Jacobson can one-up any L.A. Jewish reader who felt like an outcast in high school.
Some of the best recent American documentaries are nonfiction, highly subjective narratives that explore the Sturm und Drang of family relationships.
In years past, the Sundance Film Festival — a two-week marathon of industry schmoozing, skiing and screenings in Park City, Utah — has served as the launching pad for Jewish independent cinema.
Before films such as \”Radio Days,\” Woody Allen had his television days.
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