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Fast Forward San Francisco Jewish Film Fest Directors Call For Peace in Gaza
Some of the directors who have had their films shown in the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival have issued a statement calling for peace in Gaza and Israel. The statement said that “in these violent days, it is impossible to talk only about cinema while ignoring the killing and horrifying events” taking place on Israel’s…
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The Schmooze Naomi Foner on ‘Very Good Girls’ and Her Famous Children
Photo courtesy Tribeca Film Screenwriter Naomi Foner was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe for her original screenplay for “Running on Empty.” She also wrote other high-profile projects such as “Losing Isaiah” and “Bee Season.” So you’d think the Hollywood establishment would rush to sign on for “Very Good Girls,” her latest…
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The Schmooze Paul Mazursky Showed the Surface, and Went Deeper
Getty Images Summer is the cruelest cultural season. With that in mind, ICYMI (In Case You Missed It) is a new occasional series highlighting movies, TV shows, books, comics and everything else we might have missed in the past few months that we can catch up on in the next few. “It’s all Ralphie’s fault.”…
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Life The Male-Led Campaign To End Female Stereotyping in Hollywood
Robert Shepyer The supportive girlfriend. The doting mother. The devoted daughter. These simplified roles are too often the only options for women trying to catch a break in Hollywood. But don’t just take the word of this feminist blogger: the studies back up Hollywood’s major problem with diverse roles for women, or screen presence whatsoever….
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Film & TV VIDEO: How To Fight Voyeurism in Gaza
When some of us hear “Gaza,” we picture bombs or rockets or rubble. What if, instead, we pictured an adorable little girl in a pink hat? Or a grandfather playing with his grandchild? Or young men handing out ice cream cones? A new short film by Palestinian filmmaker Hadeel Assali is an ingenious exercise in…
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The Schmooze When Music Is the Best Medicine
Photo courtesy of BOND/360 Carly Simon recently told The New York Times that one of her goals this summer was to see “Alive Inside” again. She calls the documentary, which won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, “an extremely moving depiction of the power that music has.” She’s right. And…
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The Schmooze Filming the One-State Solution
With the two-state solution increasingly invoked as either tragically out of reach or altogether unjust, a new film seeks to examine another possibility for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the one-state solution. More in the tradition of didactic documentary films than storytelling ones, Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon’s “A People Without a Land,” which recently premiered at the Manhattan Film…
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The Schmooze When Having It All Is Too Much
Director Kevin Asch’s film, “Affluenza,” is about a “disease” that seems to strike people with too much money and too much time but not enough of a moral compass to guide them. Its symptoms are a sense of entitlement and self-indulgence. The movie is set in Great Gatsby country, on Long Island’s Gold Coast, where…
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