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Dustin Hoffman says it’s a great era for television, the worst ever for film
JNi.media
July 8, 2015
While television has never been better, according to veteran actor and two-time Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman, film has never been worse.
Bar mitzvah film school
Pat Sierchio
May 15, 2015
Over the years I’ve attended several bar mitzvahs — most of them at the movies.
He witnessed — and filmed — the horror of the Holocaust
Roberto Loiederman
April 16, 2015
In early April 1945, Arthur Mainzer, barely 22, was a United States Army Air Forces cameraman assigned to documenting the war in Europe
Sondheim’s Freudian ‘Woods’
Jewish Journal
December 26, 2014
The movie version of Stephen Sondheim’s Broadway classic Into the Woods, which opened in theaters yesterday, is much more than several interwoven, fractured fairy tales. It’s a thicket of symbols and themes that draw directly on the ideas and Weltanschauung of Sigmund Freud.
A Jew steps into Christmas
Jewish Journal
December 17, 2013
I got offered a part in a Christmas movie over the summer. It’s called “Defending Santa” and stars Dean Cain, Jud Tylor and my movie wife, Jodie Sweetin, best known for playing Stephanie on “Full House.”
Jewish, Israeli-themed films vie for foreign-language Oscar
Tom Tugend
December 17, 2013
Producers and directors in 76 countries will be biting their nails when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces the Oscar nominees for best foreign-language film this week.
‘Bethlehem,’ a film of spies and intrigue and Oscar possibilities
Tom Tugend
December 12, 2013
Foreign-language (meaning non English-language) films from 76 countries, ranging from Afghanistan to Venezuela, are competing for Oscar honors this year, with Israel’s entry, “Bethlehem,” pitting Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, against diverse Palestinian factions eager to blow up the Jewish state.
‘Walk’ changes a life
Jewish Journal
November 19, 2013
For Aaron Wolf, an anecdote sparked a personal memory that inspired a film. The same day he read reflections by Rabbi David Wolpe about the Sinai Temple rabbi’s father, Rabbi Gerald Wolpe, and about the kindness of a stranger, Wolf went to his keyboard and banged out the first draft of what would become “The Walk.”
A tale of love and loss and the Holocaust, in Yiddish
Tom Tugend
October 23, 2013
When Naomi Jaye, who has been making short films in her native Canada for the past 10 years, told friends she was embarking on her first feature film, they cheered.
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