Jewish Film Festivals Blog
In June 2020 I added 86 movies to this site, see the whole list below and the covers of some of them. 40,000 Horsemen (1940) DVD 72 Gilo (2017) Alice (2012) Arbeit Macht Frei (2009) At Dawn (2015) Back to Casablanca (2012) The Band/Troupe (1978) Battle for Sevastopol (2015) DVD...
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Israeli author David Grossman’s bestselling novel A Horse Walks into a Bar is being made into a Hollywood film by actor-director Mark Duplass (Cyrus, Baghead) for Village Roadshow Pictures. Grossman’s 2014 novel describes a surreal stand-up performance in which an aging comic uses the performance to take a look at his life and...
Brothers Joel and Ethan Coen are polishing the script to a reboot of “Scarface” for director Luca Guadignino. The sentence reads like a screen trade Mad Libs, but it is true nonetheless.[…] How did a star of the Yiddish theater [Paul Muni] come to play the lead in the 1930s’...
If and when movie theaters reopen – the proposed date has been pushed back to early July, and the details of the reopening plan are not clear – a whole slate of new Israeli films that have been sitting on the shelf will finally start to be released…. Two other...
The Facebook page of this site, fb.com/JewishFilmFests, has now over 1000 Facebook followers. Thank you to all of you. The Facebook page of our sister site, JewishBookWorld.org has over 500.
Most days of the month of May I celebrated a Jewish actor or actress who was born that day by posting about her or him on my Instagram account. Below is the full list of stars with links to my posts and their movies available at Amazon.com. (Here is the...
A few months ago I found out about a new documentary that examines the roles of Jewish Hungarian soldiers in the American Civil War. These heroes were fighting earlier in the 1848 Hungarian revolution. Being Hungarian, American and Jewish myself I was fascinated by the topic and learned a lot...
In May 2020 I added 71 movies to this site, see the whole list below and the covers of some of them. 11 Minutes (2015) 32 Pills: My Sister’s Suicide (2017) DVD As If It Were Yesterday (1980) Autumn in Pyongyang (2019) Before Tomorrow (1969) Bending the Arc (2017) Best...
Shavuot starts tonight and I wish you Chag Sameach! with a new Chabad video about what the festival is. I found the video on Jacob Richman’s extensive website’s Shavuout video page.
When I first heard about the documentary on this mythical figure from my childhood I got excited, but it took me a few years to actually watch the movie. The experience both added to and removed some of the mystique surrounding her. As far as I can tell the movie...
