Ralph Seliger
By Ralph Seliger
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The Schmooze ‘Broken Cameras’ Director Sees Hope for Israel
When emailing and skyping with Guy Davidi, the 33-year old Israeli co-director of “5 Broken Cameras,” opening May 30 in New York at the Film Forum, one encounters a sophisticated — albeit imperfect — speaker of English, with a vaguely British accent. His views, however, are always sharp: “My belief is that the construction of…
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News Moshe Kagan, 92, Progressive Zionist and Friend of Ariel Sharon
Moshe Kagan, a lifelong left-wing American Zionist who died May 3 at age 92, was a man of many talents, but none were more endearing than his talent for friendship; and none of his friendships were more surprising than his decades long warm relationship with Ariel Sharon. For an Israel that today appears to be…
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The Schmooze Friday Film: ‘True Story’ of Olympic Anti-Semitism
Courtesy of Corinth Releasing As told in the German feature film “Berlin 36,” opening in New York September 16 and Los Angeles September 23, Gretel Bergmann, Germany’s greatest female high jumper at the time of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, was very much “out” as a Jew, and she suffered the consequences. But a competitor, Marie…
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The Schmooze The Life and Loves of Serge Gainsbourg
Courtesy of Music Box Films In a remarkable feat for a man who was not considered good looking, Serge Gainsbourg was celebrated as much for his loves as for his art. He began life in Paris as Lucien Ginsburg, the son of Jewish refugees from the 1917 Russian Revolution. Like his parents, he survived the…
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The Schmooze Friday Film: Sudeten Germans Were Victims, Too
Courtesy of Corinth Films The Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia began with the annexation of the largely German-speaking Sudetenland in October 1938. Most people are unaware of the aftermath of the occupation, in which Czech people took revenge on their German-speaking neighbors. This story is explored in a German-Czech-Austrian feature film titled “Habermann,” opening August 5…
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The Schmooze Friday Film: Solving World Conflict With Sex
Courtesy of Music Box Films In “The Names of Love,” being released in the U.S. June 24, 24-year-old actress Sara Forestier plays Baya, a free-spirited idealist who literally enacts the 1960s slogan, “Make love, not war.” She is passionate to a fault in supporting the French left, lending her attractive body to the cause by…
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The Schmooze Friday Film: The Netherlands’ Mile High Club
Courtesy of Music Box Films Reputed to be the most expensive Dutch-language film ever made, “Bride Flight,” a sensual melodrama with something of a Jewish theme thrown in, debuts commercially in the United States on June 10. The film recounts the experiences of four Dutch expatriates who meet on a KLM airliner in 1953, wending…
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Culture Sex and the Shoah, Through Survivor and Sons
‘Death in Love” is both gross and engrossing. The 44-year-old New York-born director of “Remember the Titans,” Boaz Yakin, wrote, produced and directed this Holocaust-related film in a deliberately provocative way. This is the second time that the former yeshiva student has attempted a Jewish subject. “A Price Above Rubies” brought mixed reviews from critics…
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