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The Schmooze Pro-Israel Screenwriter Founds ‘Mike Leigh Scholarship for Political and Moral Courage’
While visiting the Ma’aleh School of Television, Film and the Arts in Jerusalem this week to co-teach a workshop with fellow Hollywood screenwriter David N. Weiss, Dan Gordon used the opportunity to take his public critique of British filmmaker Mike Leigh one step further. Gordon followed up on a promise he made Leigh in an…
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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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The Schmooze Friday Film: A German Director’s Alter Ego Bares All
Courtesy of the Toronto Jewish Film Festival Talk about baring all for your art. German-Jewish director Dani Levy does Woody Allen one better in “Life Is Too Long,” which made its North American premiere at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival in May. A dyspeptic “Stardust Memories,” “Life Is Too Long” both exposes Levy’s fragile psyche…
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The Schmooze Friday Film: Leader of the Anti-Madoff Crusade
What’s left to tell about the Bernie Madoff scandal? Plenty, if you’re Harry Markopoulos, the famed whistleblower whose repeated cries of “fraud” were ignored by everyone from the SEC to the Wall Street Journal. Markopoulos gets his day in “Chasing Madoff,” partly based on his book “No One Would Listen” (and originally titled “The Foxhounds”)….
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The Schmooze Friday Film: Woody Allen’s Parisian Sleight of Hand
Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics In his new movie, “Midnight in Paris,” Woody Allen did what he does best. He created a character out of a city and added his signature sleight-of-hand magic. Think “The Purple Rose of Cairo,” when a handsome leading man steps through a screen to romance a depression-era Mia Farrow, or…
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Life How ‘Bridesmaids’ Caters to Men
“Super-intelligent, female-centric comedy” seemed to be the consensus among the reviews of “Bridesmaids” I read. So I was excited to see it. In my excitement, I managed to ignore the fact that most reviews spoke of a “super-intelligent, female-centric comedy” in the same way they would reference “a person with four heads who can fly”…
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The Schmooze The Truth About Leah
Crossposted from Haaretz When Leah Goldberg was 8 years old, her father suffered a mental illness and her mother went to work. Leah started studying at the trade school in Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania, and turned out to be a gifted student. Within just six months she was learning Hebrew. “Today I am starting to…
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The Schmooze Friday Film: Amos Oz on Not Writing Universally
Courtesy of Yonathan & Masha Films Yonathan and Masha Zur’s recent documentary “Amos Oz: The Nature of Dreams,” screening May 17 at the New York Israel Film Festival, expertly circles around the question: What is the place of politics in literature, and vice versa? For Oz, the two cannot be disentangled. “To write what they…
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