Most days of the month of July 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...
Tablet Magazine posted an excerpt from a new book in the Jewish Lives series: “Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker” by David Mikics. Here are the opening paragraphs: A.I.,the Aryan Papers,and Eyes Wide Shut all present characters who are locked into their roles and cannot be authentic: the robot boy who yearns to be accepted...
In July 2020 I added 57 movies to this site, see the whole list below and the covers of some of them above. 17 Beginnings of Talia (2015) The 3 Penny Opera (1931) 39 Pounds of Love (2005) DVD According to the Decrees of Providence (1984) The Actress and the...
Most days of the month of June 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...
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...
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