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Filmmaker Alison Klayman On Her Year With Steve Bannon
Alison Klayman is an accomplished and decorated documentarian. Her filmography includes the award-winning “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry” (2012), which followed the titular Chinese activist and artist, and “Take Your Pills” (2018), an expose on Adderall addiction. But none of her ambitious and intimate films could prepare her for her latest subject. In “The Brink,” which…
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The Secret Jewish History Of Hawaii
There once was a land ruled by a King David. And unto the king from beyond the land came a wise man who was learned in the traditions of an ancient, foreign people; skilled at fortune-telling, and able to read the stars. The king took a liking to the man and spent many hours alone…
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Who To Read For Women’s History Month, Part One: Tillie Olsen
Tillie Olsen can be difficult to read. The content of what she wrote isn’t the issue; her subjects could be grim, yes, but in a way that demands rather than repels attention. But Olsen’s visceral prose — her willingness to adopt a character’s perspective so fully as to surrender lucidity — can be a barrier….
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When Dublin’s Jewish Mayor Conquered Manhattan
On March 16, 1957, in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, parade bands on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue blared classic Irish tunes, while marchers carried American and Irish flags. The scene was, according to The New York Times, a “musical river of green filled with thousands of merry lads and lasses.” Fueling the excitement, the lord mayor…
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Theater Purim in Paris: Rachel Félix and the Paradox of French Anti-Semitism
Paris is crammed with sites of Jewish interest. While some are obvious — the shops on the Rue des Rosiers or the Holocaust memorial at Drancy — others come as more of a surprise. The Comédie-Française belongs to this latter group. The nation’s oldest state theater, founded in the 17th century under the aegis of…
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The Case For A Queen Esther Disney Film
With the acquisition of Lucasfilm, the multi-billion dollar handshake that forged the Marvel-Disney partnership and an incipient deal with Fox, Mickey Mouse owns almost every brand worth having. This mass cultural monopolization has its benefits. For the first time in anyone’s lifetime a film could now, without breach of current copyright law, show stormtroopers from…
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No One Asked, But Here’s David Mamet’s Take On The Admissions Scandal Anyway
Like his characters, David Mamet lacks a filter. The celebrated playwright feels the near-constant urge to opine on issues that don’t require his input. Race relations. “Brain-Dead Liberals” . Sexual abuse in Hollywood. Now Mamet is tackling the scandal du jour: A $25 million college admissions bribery plot uncovered by the FBI and revealed in…
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Theater The Drama Of The Admissions Scandal Gets Its Time On Stage In ‘Admissions’
Yesterday, during rehearsals for Theater Wit’s production of Joshua Harmon’s “Admissions,” a drama about parents’ bullheaded efforts to get their child into his college of choice, the news broke among the cast and creative team. A wide-ranging sting operation conducted by federal authorities led to the indictment of 50 people —- including the actresses Felicity…
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Trump Doesn’t Want Einstein As His Pilot — Here’s Why
In his latest nonsensical Twitter tirade, Trump lamented how complicated airplane design is getting. Apropos of nothing, the Leader of the Free World spewed the following forth onto the internet: Airplanes are becoming far too complex to fly. Pilots are no longer needed, but rather computer scientists from MIT. I see it all the time…
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Meet The Chicago Journalism Professor Helping Dreamers Tell Their Stories Through Podcasting
Edie Rubinowitz had seen it in her office hours for the last two years. “Dreamers — or undocumented DACA recipients — had a kind of horrible alienation,” Rubinowitz, the Acting Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Media and Theatre at Northeastern Illinois University told the Forward. “They’d say ‘I shouldn’t be in…
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Meet America’s Most Outspoken Film Critic — On Elaine May, Steven Spielberg & Yiddishkeit
At 75, one of America’s most influential film critics, Jonathan Rosenbaum, is being celebrated with a collection of his articles from University of Illinois Press and with a second volume planned for May. His international reputation is based on previous books on political films, the vagaries of film culture, the cinema of Orson Welles, the…
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