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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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Fast Forward 3 Films By Israeli Directors Top Los Angeles Times List
LOS ANGELES (JTA) – Three films directed by Israelis took center stage in the film listings of the Los Angeles Times’ senior critic Kenneth Turan. In Hollywood few newspaper items are scrutinized more intensely than the film reviews and rankings in the Los Angeles Times, making Friday’s list a boon for the films and their directors. The top…
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Life Male Journalist Finds Profiling Actresses A Bore. Oh.
In 2013, Carly Lewis wrote a great piece for the Walrus about the phenomenon of certain male journalists writing either drooling or dismissive profiles of famous (and famously attractive) women. So it might seem a refreshing surprise that a male journalist has announced his aversion to profiling celebrities. In a recent piece for The American…
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Film & TV You Must Watch This New Film On The Armenian Genocide, Whether It’s Any Good Or Not
Today, “The Promise, a film about the Armenian Genocide, was released in theaters. At first glance, either at the trailer or the film, we are given a sweeping historical drama filmed and written in a slightly dated fashion – a fine, if forgettable, affair. But against the backdrop of both history and the world’s current…
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