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Culture Live-Blogging The Rapture and the Demise of Nicolas Cage
Why am I here? The question arises on many levels. On the surface, clearly, I’m here to review “Left Behind,” based on the second-best-selling series of books of all time (“Harry Potter” is the first). In theory, LB should be the biggest of a run of terrible Christian movies, including “Heaven is for Real” and…
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The Schmooze When Investigative Reporting Turns Deadly
Writer Peter Landesman seems the only good choice to have written “Kill the Messenger.” The movie is about Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Gary Webb (Jeremy Renner) who broke the story that the CIA, during the Reagan administration, was part of a conspiracy that looked away while gobs of cocaine was smuggled into the U.S. and…
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Fast Forward Are Film Clips Earliest Videos of Italian Jews?
Brief film clips from 1923 made public this month are believed to be the earliest video images of Italian Jews and among the oldest home movies produced in Italy. The nine minutes of film were screened in Rome Oct. 5 after being restored and digitized by Italy’s Central Institute for the Restoration and Conservation of…
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Culture Historic Holocaust Film ‘Night Will Fall’ Debuts at Last — Had Help From Hitchcock
A new film about a forgotten, long-shelved documentary chronicling the Allies’ discovery and liberation of the Nazi concentration camps is offering viewers a restored contemporaneous account of that seminal moment in history. The original, unfinished documentary has now, 70 years later, been reproduced and completed by the British Imperial War Museums. Titled “German Concentration Camps…
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Film & TV Ruby Rivlin Is This Palestinian Boy’s New Best Friend
When it comes to Israeli-Palestinian relations, there’s much to be cynical about lately. The 50-day long carnage resulting from Operation Protective Edge this summer, the frozen peace process, the dueling speeches by Netanyahu and Abbas at the U.N. — and then there’s the festering issue of Israel’s minorities. This week, Israel’s new president has come…
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The Schmooze Trying To Find the Real Heinrich Himmler
A sense of irony is helpful, perhaps even necessary, to truly appreciate “The Decent One,” the new documentary about Heinrich Himmler. The paradox begins with the title character. He was the architect of the Final Solution, commander of the SS, and a man who in civilian clothes looked like a Jewish accountant. What Vanessa Lapa,…
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Culture Where Jonathan Tropper Departs From Reality
As someone who didn’t grow up in the United States, watching Hollywood films can sometimes be tricky; it’s hard to tell what the filmmakers made up and what represents reality. When I moved to the United States two years ago, it wasn’t like I expected to encounter action heroes who never need toilet breaks, background…
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Culture Hollywood’s Most Misunderstood and Forgotten Jewish Movie Returns
In the face of Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in Germany, film scholars have long debated about why American moviemakers assiduously avoided dealing with Nazism and anti-Semitism in their films. Some point to the fact that Hollywood studio heads wanted to avoid controversial film fare. Others note that these moguls, most of whom were Jewish,…
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