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Europe Gives a Nod to Israeli Films
Two Israeli movies have been nominated for major honors at next month’s European Film Awards. “Waltz With Bashir” and “Lemon Tree,” both co-productions with Germany and France, snagged a total of six nominations for the December 6 awards ceremony in Copenhagen, Denmark. “Bashir,” Ari Folman’s animated feature about the 1982 Lebanon War, will compete in…
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Kids Mag Ends Print Run
In yet another blow to the Jewish media industry, BabagaNewz, a Jewish learning supplement and classroom magazine, will cease its print edition and maintain only an online presence. The magazine, published monthly during the academic year, received several awards from the American Jewish Press Association. The news came November 6, when Amir Cohen, CEO of…
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Film Tells a Friend’s Story of Anne Frank
‘My Name Is Anne, She Said, Anne Frank,” a best-selling memoir written by Anne Frank’s childhood friend, is now being adapted into a feature film. Jacqueline van Maarsen, who was referred to as Jopie in “The Diary of Anne Frank,” wrote the memoir, which was first published in Dutch in 1990 and released in English…
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Mr. Darcy’s Israeli Makeover
Mr. Darcy, meet… Alona Sadeh. The Israeli cable provider Hot is venturing into BBC territory, adapting Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” but moving the action to 21st-century Israel. Planned as a six-part miniseries set for broadcast next summer, the drama will unfold in the Galilee rather than in rural England, with cars replacing carriages and…
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The Bets Are in Shekels But the Game’s the Same
It’s a form of *tzedakah *that the Sages probably didn’t have in mind: cash winnings from the Israeli version of “Celebrity Poker.” Nevertheless, a number of Israeli charities and not-for-profit organizations stand to benefit from the November 1 premiere of “Poker Cochavim,” the Tel Aviv-based edition of the American series broadcast on Bravo. Participants in…
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Danny DeVito on Hair Loss and Peace
“Entertainment, vision and chutzpah,” was the battle cry of New York’s Israeli consul general, Asaf Shariv, on October 29 at Manhattan’s Ziegfeld Theatre. It was the opening night of the 23rd Israel Film Festival, and Lifetime Visionary Award winner Danny DeVito worked hard to include all three elements in his acceptance speech. “Look around. A…
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Diamond Mogul Meets a Star-Studded Controversy
A group of A-list celebrities who appear in a new photography book wearing shimmering jewels (and not much more) have become caught in a tussle between an Israeli diamond mogul, an international poverty relief organization and a couple of highly irritated public relations firms. It all started a couple of years ago when 23 female…
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Bond Girl’s Many Roles
Watch your step, 007: The latest Bond girl has an alternate identity, as a gunslinger in Tel Aviv. Actress Olga Kurylenko, cast as James Bond’s love interest in the spy series’s 22nd installment, November’s “Quantum of Solace,” already has another film in the can: an Israeli thriller set for release next year. “Walls,” an action…
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Natalie Portman Saves the Film
Natalie Portman has come to the rescue. The actress is set to star in “Love and Other Impossible Pursuits,” in a role that was originally reserved for Jennifer Lopez, Variety reported. When J-Lo backed out unexpectedly, the filmmakers thought their independent flick, adapted from a novel by Ayelet Waldman, might be doomed. But then Portman…
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Larry David Returns
Larry David has purchased scalped tickets for temple seats during the High Holy Days (and was subsequently kicked out of services). He’s invited a convicted sex offender to a Passover Seder. He’s pitted a Holocaust survivor against a castoff from the TV series “Survivor.” Are there any other rituals to ridicule? Any more Jewish cultural…
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Israeli Film Festivals’ Eclectic Crowd
The stars at Cannes and Sundance are bigger and brighter, but the guest lists in Israel are decidedly more eclectic. A big screen bard, the writer of “Taxi Driver” and a descendant of a high-ranking Nazi were among the foreign guests slated to attend two Israeli film festivals this month, the first of which wrapped…
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