Holocaust obsessive Woody Allen could be making his next movie in Germany. The Hollywood Reporter says the filmmaker, currently shooting “The Bop Decameron” in Rome, is in talks to make Munich the scene of his next film. Still enjoying the success of “Midnight in Paris” — the highest-grossing movie in his six-decade career — Allen…
When we toast ‘L’Chaim’ (to life), we mean just that. Cornell Medical College has embarked on a research project to determine if there is a genetic reason why Ashkenazi Jews to live so long. Jewcy provided their own dietary plan — grapefruit and an egg for breakfast, sardines and horseradish for lunch — for a…
Novelist Alice Walker explains why she is sailing to Gaza. The New York Times profiles Idan Raichel, Israel’s “musician of the decade.” JWeekly profiles the Ridin’ Chai Motorcycle Club of Northern California. In Souciant, The Arty Semite contributor Joel Schalit writes about Public Enemy in Arabic. In Tablet, The Arty Semite contributor Shulem Deen writes…
Courtesy of the Toronto Jewish Film Festival Talk about baring all for your art. German-Jewish director Dani Levy does Woody Allen one better in “Life Is Too Long,” which made its North American premiere at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival in May. A dyspeptic “Stardust Memories,” “Life Is Too Long” both exposes Levy’s fragile psyche…
Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics In his new movie, “Midnight in Paris,” Woody Allen did what he does best. He created a character out of a city and added his signature sleight-of-hand magic. Think “The Purple Rose of Cairo,” when a handsome leading man steps through a screen to romance a depression-era Mia Farrow, or…
The Independent takes a look at Habonim, the Socialist Zionist youth group that was once home to Mike Leigh, David Baddiel and Sacha Baron Cohen. The Brooklyn Rail revisits the work of Russian Jewish filmmaker Dziga Vertov, on the occasion of a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. Israeli singer Amir Benayoun (profiled in…
Filmmaker Ethan Coen is set to publish his second poetry collection, titled “The Day the World Ends,” next near. Shtetl Magazine reviews “The Joyful Child” by Montreal novelist Norman Ravvin. NPR profiles mother-daughter klezmer duo Elaine Hoffman Watts and Susan Watts. Woody Allen spills the beans on life in show business. The U.S. National Archives…
Sidney Lumet, the acclaimed director more than 50 films, died April 9 in Manhattan at the age of 86. Best known for taut psychodramas such as “Serpico” (1973), “Dog Day Afternoon” (1975), “Network” (1976) and “The Verdict” (1982), Lumet’s work demonstrated an enduring interest in social realism and the difficulty of obtaining justice, a concern…
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