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Culture Movie News: Polanski, Dunham, ‘Bar Bahar,’ And The Trailer For Spielberg’s Latest
The weekend is almost upon us, so its time for Movie Thursday, that most venerable of Forward traditions. In case you’ve been living under a rock for the last 120 years – or since last week, when we debuted the feature – Movie Thursday is the day when we talk about movies: Thursday. It’s a…
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Culture Movie Thursday: Tarkovsky, ‘1945’ And Sexual Assault Allegations
What is Movie Thursday? We’re thrilled you asked. Starting today, every Thursday the Forward will publish a roundup of its best film coverage from the last week. This is where you can find movie recommendations for the weekend, essays on filmmakers, film history and more, and the latest news about Hollywood. Thus: Lights, camera, action!…
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The Schmooze 3 Movies To Watch At This Year’s Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival
The Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival kicks off on November 4, running until November 19th. A fixture of the Philadelphia cultural scene for thirty-seven years, the PJFF is the second-oldest Jewish film festival in the United States (second only to San Francisco). There’s quite a wealth of films being shown — so I’ve done you a…
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Fast Forward ‘One Of Us’ Director Apologizes For Remarks On Holocaust And Hasidim
The director of the Netflix documentary “One of Us,” about formerly ultra-Orthodox Jews, apologized last week for inaccurate comments she made about the Holocaust, the Jerusalem Post reported. In an appearance on the Charlie Rose show, Heide Ewing made it seem as though Hasidic Jews were targeted at a higher rate than non-religious Jews. “The…
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Culture With ‘The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected),’ Noah Baumbach Returns To His Unhappy Place
Regardless of where one is in life or how degrading one’s surroundings may become, family has the ability to dig into us in a special way that nothing else can. Noah Baumbach appears to have internalized this lesson, a sense of how those closest to us can make us more miserable than even the cold…
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The Schmooze Whatever You Do, Do Not See ‘Mother!’ Around Rosh Hashanah
Like a good cinephile––one of very few, it would seem––I was anxious to see ‘mother!’, the newest offering from lugubrious auteur Darren Aronofsky. So anxious, in fact, that I ensured there would be one night my husband would come home early from work to sit with our baby son, so I could attend a late…
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The Schmooze Israeli Director Tali Shalom Ezer’s Lesbian Romance, ‘My Days of Mercy,’ Screens At TIFF
Screening today at the Toronto International Film Festival is Israeli director Tali Shalom Ezer’s newest drama, ‘My Days of Mercy.’ Starring Ellen Page (“Juno”) and Kate Mara (“House of Cards”), “My Days of Mercy” tells the story of two women, Lucy and Mercy (Page and Mara), who fall in love despite viewpoints that seem impossible…
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The Schmooze Why Casting Shia LeBeouf As A Raging Tennis Star Was A Brilliant Move
“Borg/McEnroe” is perhaps one of the most anticipated movies premiering at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Starring Shia LeBeouf as John McEnroe and Sverrir Gudnason as Björn Borg, “Borg/McEnroe” details the fierce tennis rivalry (“Fire and Ice,” “IceBorg versus Superbrat”) that captivated the world in the 1980 Wimbledon Championships. LaBeouf has become as infamous…
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