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Category Archives: Hollywood
I Loved The Movie ‘An Education’
This was my favorite movie of 2009. I was enraptured by it from the minute I read its plot summary: “A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of … Continue reading
Inglorious Basterds
I’m watching Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglorious Basterds” live on my cam. I got the screener because I am a member of SAG. I’ve had a long hard day filled with Alexander Technique, publicist drudgery, therapy, and a cold walk in the … Continue reading
The Rookie
There’s one genre of movies that always turns me on — underdog sports dramas. I love them. I watched The Rookie (about Jim Morris) tonight (about four years after I watched it the first time). I was struck about how … Continue reading
The Last Station
Jane emails: We saw The Last Station, the story of Leo Tolstoy’s tempestuous marriage. The take away: you can’t live with love and you can’t live without it. Helen Mirren and the director were there afterward for a Q&A. Tolstoy … Continue reading
Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
I read this book when it came out. It’s a good read and a good window into post-apartheid South Africa and the World Cup rugby final that united a nation. Now it is being made into a movie directed by … Continue reading
A Serious Film?
Rabbi Benjamin Blech writes for Aish.com: Stay until the very end of all the credits at the conclusion of the Coen brothers new movie, A Serious Man, and you’ll see something I’m certain has never been done before in the … Continue reading
The Coen Brothers On Judaism
From the Boston Globe: Earlier in the evening, I had attended a screening of the remarkable new Coen brothers film, "A Serious Man,” hosted at Brandeis by the National Center for Jewish Film. The film is being compared to Job … Continue reading
The Story Of The Hasidic Actors Guild
Yisrael Lifschutz writes: HAG: The Story of the Hassidic Actors Guild is a serio-comic (HAG logo "Pay Us For Payos") hybrid of fact and fiction focusing on the life of Ysrael "Izzi" Lifschutz who has served as an actor and/or … Continue reading
A Serious Man
AP reports: Joel and Ethan Coen took the title of their latest film, "A Serious Man," from the dialogue they created for the characters in their surreal, darkly affectionate look at a Midwest Jewish community. In one scene, a rabbi … Continue reading