Alan J Pakula would be 82 years old today. He died in a car accident in 1998. He directed 16 movies and produced many of those too. His most famous movies are “Sophie’s Choice”, ”All the President’s Men” and ”To Kill a Mockingbird”, — he was nominated for the Oscars...
Paul Rudd is 51 years old today. For the widest audience he is known as Ant-Man in the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe). However with a 3 decade long career and 121 credits as an actor he is much more. He has played mostly in comedies, such as The 40-Year-Old Virgin,...
IsraeliFilms launched a Video-on-Demand service through Vimeo recently. The these ten movies are available here currently, most of them for $3.99 to watch:
Melvyn Douglas was born 119 years ago today. His most famour roles was in Ernst Lubtisch’s classic comedy “Ninotchka” (from 1939) where he played with Greta Garbo. My favorite movie where you can see him is Hal Ashby’s absurd political comedy “Being There”. His long career he also played Benjamin...
Natasha Lyonne is 41 years old today. She has appeared in over 60 movies and two dozen TV series but for most TV viewers she is either familiar as “Nicky Nichols” from “Orange Is the New Black” or as the regularly resurrecting main character from Russian Doll. Some of the...
All Done and Dusted is a 3 minutes long short film from 2010, made available online on YouTube by JFI (Jewish Film Institute). Here is my page about the film with synopsis. You may want to watch the film first, at the end of this post, as my insight below...
Ben Mendelsohn is 51 years old today. He is a character actor from Australia, who is know in Hollywood for playing villains and criminals, including Orson Krennic in “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”, Daggett in “The Dark Knight Rises” and Sorrento in “Ready Player One”. On his Jewish background:...
“Line of Life with Golda Meir” is a 12 minute Israeli documentary/interview from 1977, produced by Krosney Productions for the “The United Jewish Appeal” and made available for free online by The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive on the YouTube channel of Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Here is my page about...
Jaime Ray Newman is 42 years old today. While she is not a major movie star (yet?) but if you watched American TV in the last 20 years you must have seen her. Here are just some of her recurring roles from past TV shows: Little Fires Everywhere, Midnight, Texas, The...
Today I am starting a new series, celebrating Jewish people in the film industry on their birthday, one person a day. Ali MacGraw is 81 years old today. She is most known for her role as Jenny in the 1970 hit movie “Love Story” (DVD, BluRay, PrimeVideo). Before this movie...
In March 2020 I added 47 movies to this site, see the whole list below and the covers of some of them. The Adventures of Saul Bellow (2020) Ashkenaz Music (1992) The Attaché (2019) Between Times (2018) Birth Right (2019) The Black Sabbath (2019) Broken Bird (2020) Children of The...