Trio of films offers eclectic choices: sea, spies, punk
Jewish Journal
September 28, 2006
Trio of films offers eclectic choices.
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7 Days in The Arts
Keren Engelberg
September 22, 2005
Easiest mitzvah opportunity of the week award goes to \”One Night Only: A Concert for Autism Speaks\” tonight at the Kodak.
Kilmer’s Moses a Real ‘Ten’
Gaby Wenig
September 16, 2004
Val Kilmer plays Moses in \”The Ten Commandments,\” the new musical version of the Exodus story, which is set to open at the Kodak Theatre on Sept. 27.
Q & A With Yuval Rotem
Tom Tugend
July 29, 2004
Consul General — now Ambassador — Yuval Rotem arrived as a 39-year-old career diplomat in Los Angeles in September 1999, with his wife, Miri, and their three children. He will return to Jerusalem Aug. 16, leaving behind hundreds of friends who consider him one of the most popular and effective envoys to have represented his country in Southern California, the Southwestern United States and Hawaii.
Offbeat Austrian
Rob Eshman
February 6, 2003
Gebürtig, Austria\’s entry into the competition for Best Foreign Film in the upcoming Oscar race, is a clever and mostly engaging movie that goes after the big questions: Is the Holocaust best told as documentary or fiction?
Joining ‘Gangs’ to Work With the Best
Gary Rosenblatt
January 2, 2003
When the now-legendary film director Martin Scorsese first discovered Herbert Asbury\’s book, \”Gangs of New York,\” in 1970 and decided to make it into a film, Rick Schwartz was a 2-year-old growing up in a modern Orthodox home in Teaneck, N.J.
Hollywood, History and the Holocaust
Gene Lichtenstein
December 26, 2002
The process of changing Nazi history in films and television actually began some time ago in films and television. From Chaplin\’s \”The Great Dictator\” to \”Hogan\’s Heroes,\” from Ernst Lubitsch\’s \”To Be or Not to Be\” to \”The Grey Zone,\” World War II and the Holocaust have been told almost solely from the point of view of the victors and the victims.
The Film No One Wanted
Naomi Pfefferman
December 26, 2002
Shattering the cinematic taboo made the film, and its filmmakers, virtual pariahs in Hollywood and beyond.
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