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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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Culture Third Woman Accuses Roman Polanski of Rape
A woman identifying herself as “Robin M.” accused filmmaker Roman Polanski of “sexually victimizing” her at a press conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday, according to a report by USA Today. The new accusation comes as the director is awaiting a decision on a request for the dismissal of the 1977 unlawful sex case that…
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Art For Better Or Worse, “Nocturama” Is The Movie Of The Moment
During the lead-up to the September 11th terrorist attacks, ringleader Mohammed Atta and at least four other hijackers met multiple times in Las Vegas. Something about this detail seems to stick in the imagination, such that the intervening years have seen considerable speculation as to what they did there, prompting earnest investigations as well as…
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Fast Forward Who Actually Was Allowed To Film At Auschwitz? Spoiler Alert: Not Spielberg.
After a Louisiana congressman was condemned by the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum for filming at the former concentration camp, the obvious question is when is it okay to film at the historic site. Answer: almost never. Steven Spielberg was denied permission to shoot on the site when he filmed “Schindler’s List,” so instead his crew…
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The Schmooze The Best Jewish Camp Movies To Watch This Summer
The founders of the first American Jewish summer camps imagined that camp could be an opportunity for Jewish city kids to breath country air and for Eastern European immigrant children to assimilate. They could not have anticipated that their creations would become populous sylvan gatherings where young people set things on fire, avail themselves of…
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Film & TV Fundamentalism And Feminism Square Off In ‘The Women’s Balcony’
‘The Women’s Balcony,” the Israeli film written by Shlomit Nehama and director Emil Ben-Shimon, could easily have turned into a polemic, awash in stereotypes, about the ultra-Orthodox versus the more liberally minded in one small, closely knit Israeli Orthodox congregation. But thanks to the talents of the actors and the creative team, the film is…
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Life Five Reasons to Love Rama Burshtein’s ‘The Wedding Plan’
It’s spring, and your calendar might be filling with wedding invitations. Or maybe you’re planning your own wedding, and/or discovering that you dislike weddings and the myriad pressures they can bring. Whatever you’re feeling about wedding ceremonies, or romantic love altogether, Israeli director Rama Burshtein’s poignant, funny, and beautifully heartfelt second feature, “The Wedding Plan,”…
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Community It’s Not All Politics In Israeli Films
The 5th annual Israel Film Center Festival launches this May with a diverse selection of Israel’s latest hit films. The focus of this festival is Israeli stories beyond the politics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Throughout the years, many of the films highlighted in this festival have not necessarily been featured in the top international festivals,…
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