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.
Several years ago, Yvette Lowenthal\’s friend, ICM agent Doug Zandoren, thought her low rasp would make her a good candidate for radio spots. He was right.
Robert Cumins was working on the staff of his junior high school paper in Fair Lawn, N.J., when he had his first scoop.
It isn\’t as though you exactly need a reason to visit the Getty Center. But for those in search of one, we can recommend a gem of an exhibition: the display of works by the famous Russian Jewish artist El Lissitzky (1890-1941).
If you think the Academy Awards are unfair, biased and arbitrary, wait until you see what we\’ve come up with for our first Jewish film awards.
A Chinese proverb has it that if you haven\’t sailed on the Chang Jiang — the Long River — you really haven\’t been anywhere. Better known as the Yangtze River to foreigners, the world\’s third longest river flows through the heart of China from the highlands of Tibet until it empties, after a 3,900-mile journey, into the East China Sea at Shanghai.
Even for an international film producer and inveterate traveler, Arthur Cohn has covered a lot of territory recently. During the last week in October, the winner of a record five Oscars and producer of \”The Garden of the Finzi-Continis\” and \”Central Station\” was feted in Shanghai at his very own \”Arthur Cohn Day\” by the Chinese government and film industry.
For those Angelenos looking for a respite from million-dollar hype and \”Happy Meal\” tie-ins to studio blockbusters, late autumn is also a time when a flurry of small, offbeat film festivals grace local movie screens.
The question in regard to Lillian Hellman is not so much, What is her place in the American theater? Rather, it\’s, Is she even entitled to one?
Tony Kaye\’s \”American History X\” was supposed to establish him as \”the greatest living filmmaker,\” he told The Jewish Journal. Instead, the movie, a drama about the redemption of a neo-Nazi (Edward Norton), was \”raped\” by New Line Cinema; by \”narcissistic, dilettante\” Norton, who destroyed \”X\” in the editing room; and by the Directors Guild, which refused to allow Kaye his pseudonym-of-choice in the credits, Humpty Dumpty.
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