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Culture In this experimental drone film, ‘The Big Lebowski’s Jesus rolls again
Jesus. He shows up on toast. He appears on dental X-rays. He manifests in Lane 5 of a bowling alley in a viral drone video. Sorry, we don’t mean that itinerant Jewish preacher from the first century. We mean the John Turturro character from “The Big Lebowski.” In a 90 second short, directed by Anthony…
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Film & TV New York Film Festival To Feature Films From Coen Brothers, Frederick Wiseman
This year’s New York Film Festival will mark a major moment for Jewish film. The Film Society of Lincoln Center, which hosts the 56-year old festival, announced the festival’s main slate lineup on August 7. Filmmaker brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, 88-year old documentarian Frederick Wiseman and visual artist Julian Schnabel are on the bill…
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Fast Forward Gary Cohn And Stephen Miller Watched ‘Fargo’ As Trump Jr. Russia Meeting Blew Up
Does the Trump administration have better taste in movies than we thought? According to Axios, among the many passages of Michael Wolff’s headline-making, soon-to-be-released “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” that may have angered its titular subject — whose lawyers today sent Wolff and his lawyers a cease-and-desist letter — is one concerning…
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Culture The Coen Brothers Just Announced Their First Foray Into Television
The Golden Age of T.V. continues to get shinier – Joel and Ethan Coen just announced yesterday that they will be creating their first project for television. Little is known about the project so far, but we do know that it will be a limited-run series entitled “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” (a classically silly Coen…
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The Schmooze 9 Jews (at Least!) To Watch Out For at the Oscars
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re probably moderately aware that the 88th annual Academy Awards are on Sunday. The Jews will be making quite the appearance in the three-hour special: as nominees, presenters and plotlines. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” had nerds of all backgrounds hyperventilating with excitement last year. It also caught…
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The Schmooze That Time John Kasich Tried to Ban a Coen Brothers Movie From Blockbuster
If there’s one thing John Kasich is clear on, it’s properly labeling movies at Blockbuster. Since it’s no longer the mid 90s, he probably won’t make it a large part of his platform. During the usually even-tempered GOP candidate’s lengthy political career, he took issue with the Oscar-winning Coen Brothers film “Fargo.” Kasich was so…
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