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Culture Read The Groundbreaking Orthodox Film Story That’s Now An Award Finalist
Editor’s Note: Simi Horwitz’s stories on the Orthodox world have been named a finalist in the prestigious Deadline Club awards. Read her complete story of Orthodox women filmmakers here. The Haredi world is generally viewed as an insular patriarchal community that shuns movies. Virtually nobody owns a TV. Still, a fledgling, shadow film industry has…
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Fast Forward Shia LaBeouf Movie Sells Only 3 Tickets In Britain
Add to Shia LaBeouf’s woes a box office flop. After a dismal performance in the United States, his new thriller “Man Down” managed to sell only one ticket during its first weekend screening in the United Kingdom. Reuters reported two more moviegoers scooped tickets, raising the grand total to 3. Shown at prestigious film festivals…
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Film & TV You Must Watch This New Film On The Armenian Genocide, Whether It’s Any Good Or Not
Imagine, for a moment, that after the Holocaust the official German position was one of denial. That the German heads of state have, since 1945, consistently asserted that the events of the Holocaust were nasty, yes, but both the Jews and the Germans bear some responsibility, and in the end, well, such things happen in…
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Fast Forward Did Steve Mnuchin Break Ethics Rules By Shilling For ‘Lego Batman’ Movie?
Ron Wyden, a Senate Democrat from Oregon, is calling for the federal Office of Government Ethics to investigate Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin after he appeared to promote a movie that he helped finance at a political gathering last Friday. “I’m not allowed to promote anything I’m involved in,” he said at an event hosted by…
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Food Delicious Doc Puts Israeli Food Center Stage
Is there such a thing as Israeli food? The good news is that filmmaker Roger Sherman went looking and came up with a mouthwatering documentary, “In Search of Israeli Cuisine,” which opens in Manhattan at the Angelika Film Center and Lincoln Plaza Cinemas on March 24. Perhaps less good news is that there doesn’t seem…
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Culture Were Marx And Engels The Original Odd Couple?
We all know Karl Marx as the bushy beard, as “Das Kapital,” as the “ism,” as “The Communist Manifesto…” But, thanks to a new film, we’ll soon get to know Karl Marx the man, or, at least, a hilariously romantic version of him. “The Young Karl Marx” is the newest film by Raoul Peck, who…
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Culture Could This Home Movie Be The Only Film Footage Of Marcel Proust?
A scholar from the Université Laval in Quebec just unearthed the only known film of French author Marcel Proust, best known for his monumental work “In Search of Lost Time.” (It is interesting to note, for our purposes at least that Proust, though raised a Catholic and perhaps anti-Semitic and was therefore Jewish by birth. Exclu…
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Culture 5 Standouts at the New York Jewish Film Festival
Are this year’s Oscar contenders letting you down? The New York Jewish Film Festival begins its 26th year on Wednesday, and as always, its slate of films is diverse enough to please the most demanding cinephiles. Here are five flicks worth braving the cold to see at the Film Society of Lincoln Center during the…
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