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The Schmooze Celebs Are Getting A Rosh Hashanah Service At The Toronto International Film Festival
Will Spielberg say shacharis? Will Scarlett hear the shofar? It could happen at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, which opens Thursday. For the first time, the world’s biggest cinema expo – and a celebrity magnet – will feature a pop-up synagogue to accommodate Jewish festivalgoers on Rosh Hashanah. The first-ever “official High Holiday Services…
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The Schmooze Israeli Director Tali Shalom Ezer’s Lesbian Romance, ‘My Days of Mercy,’ Screens At TIFF
Screening today at the Toronto International Film Festival is Israeli director Tali Shalom Ezer’s newest drama, ‘My Days of Mercy.’ Starring Ellen Page (“Juno”) and Kate Mara (“House of Cards”), “My Days of Mercy” tells the story of two women, Lucy and Mercy (Page and Mara), who fall in love despite viewpoints that seem impossible…
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The Schmooze Lars von Trier’s ‘Melancholia’ Headed for Toronto Film Festival
Good news for crazy Danish director Lars von Trier, who definitely doesn’t admire Hitler: his latest film, “Melancholia,” will celebrate its North American premiere in September at the Toronto International Film Festival. The Toronto screening will offer something of a fresh start for “Melancholia,” which temporarily stole the show at the Cannes Film Festival in…
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The Schmooze This Week in Forward Arts and Culture
“Casino Jack,” the Jack Abramoff biopic starring Kevin Spacey, opens today. Read our review from the Toronto International Film Festival here. Joshua Furst bugs out at an Icelandic adaptation of Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis,” featuring music by Nick Cave. Jo-Ann Mort reads through two of the Arab world’s pre-eminent poets. Gordon Haber investigates one of…
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The Schmooze How Dustin Hoffman Rescues a Movie About Marriage and Misery
If “Barney’s Version” does one thing really well, it’s recreate the blithe comic tone of the Mordecai Richler novel on which it is based. This faithfulness has everything to do with casting. Director Richard J. Lewis and producer Robert Lantos’s big screen “Barney’s Version” — which premiered at the Venice Film Festival last week and…
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Opinion The Boycott and Its Discontents, or How Not To Defend Israel
Every now and then, somebody you thought you knew does or says something so completely out of character that it catches you off-guard and forces you to look at things in new and surprising ways. Take, for example, the recent statement by the Simon Wiesenthal Center of Los Angeles, calling on “international academic and labor…
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