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The Schmooze Movie News: ‘Eating Animals,’ Jeff Goldblum And Zoey Deutch
Do you like movies? You’re in the right place. Read on for the best, worst and weirdest of this week’s movie news, from a spirited disagreement about the new documentary “Eating Animals” to a review of Jeff Goldblum’s most recent flirty antics. 1) “Eating Animals” met a mixed reception The new Natalie Portman-produced documentary “Eating…
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The Schmooze When Mister Rogers, A Presbyterian Minister, Talked About Tikkun Olam
I recently watched the new documentary making headlines across indie film lovers’ social feeds, determined to find nostalgic relevance from a show I knew nearly nothing about — until now. I distinctly remember snippets “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” its mesmerizing trolley whizzing by, but didn’t actually grow up watching the show regularly as a 90’s child….
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The Schmooze Movie News: Woody Allen Tactless On #MeToo, Why Jews Didn’t Play Jews During Hollywood’s Golden Age
Greetings, movie fans! Last week saw the Forward’s culture desk unusually understaffed, and therefore, a melancholic lack of movie news. This week, to make up for the omission, we have two weeks’s worth of movie news to summarize: The good, the bad, the very strange and more. Read on. 1) Alison Klayman spoke about her…
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The Schmooze Movie News: Harvey Weinstein Surrenders, Gal Gadot To Produce Fidel Castro Film
Readers, I have some disturbing news: According to a new book by Bill Niven, “Hitler and Film: The Führer’s Hidden Passion,” the murderous fascist dictator was “delighted” when he received 12 “Walt Disney ‘Mickey Mouse’ films” from Joseph Goebbels, Nazi mniister of propaganda, in 1937. Later, Niven writes that Walt Disney himself entertained Leni Riefenstahl…
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The Schmooze Movie News: The Holocaust Movie Stanley Kubrick Never Made, Roman Polanski Scoffs At #MeToo
In an egregious act of censorship that can only be described as Orwellian, the Cannes Film Festival banned selfies on its red carpet this year. Can someone check the Geneva Conventions? This can’t be legal. Anyway, from Roman Polanski’s latest attempt to minimize his egregious sexual misconduct, to Mila Kunis’s upcoming spy flick, to a…
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Film & TV Who Was That Masked Man In ‘Eyes Wide Shut?’
One of the most iconic moments from Leon Vitali’s career in movies – which began in acting and evolved to encompass an expansive range of activities working as what might with a good degree of understatement be described as an “assistant” for legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick — came as he was masked and anonymous. During…
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Life I’m Sick Of Orthodox Women Being Fetishized In Films Like ‘Disobedience’
As a girl, I used to steal books from my mother’s nightstand. Often they were the titles she was reading for the local synagogue’s sisterhood book club, and as such, they were quite often about Orthodox women: “The Romance Reader” by Pearl Abraham, “Kaaterskill Falls” by Allegra Goodman, Naomi Ragen titles. I devoured these hardcovers…
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Food Decline Of The Coconut ‘Macaroon King’
Since 2008, couple Elka Gould and Ami Kaplan, director and producer, have been filming the Badner family coping with the slow decline of their macaroon factory in Williamsburg. A forty-minute film was whittled out of fifty hours of footage, and The Macaroon King documentary was born. The film is an unexpected time capsule into the…
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