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Peres lauded in star-studded ceremony
World leaders praised and serenaded Israeli President Shimon Peres in honor of his upcoming 90th birthday.
Hungarian man, 98, charged with World War II crimes, prosecutors say
Hungarian prosecutors on Tuesday charged a 98-year-old man who tops the Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center's wanted list with war crimes, saying he had helped to deport Jews to Auschwitz in World War II.
Russia’s Putin torpedoes G8 efforts to oust Assad
Russia's Vladimir Putin derailed Barack Obama's efforts to win backing for the downfall of Syrian leader Bashar Assad at a G8 summit on Tuesday, warning the West that arms supplied to the rebels could be used for attacks on European…
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“Curb” star Jeff Garlin spends two days in jail following parking lot confrontation
Actor Jeff Garlin ("Curb Your Enthusiasm") was released from a Van Nuys jail yesterday, at approximately 7:30 a.m., according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) website. An incident…
Review: ‘Man Of Steel’
Superman/Clark Kent/Kal-El (Henry Cavill) is a guy with...angst...a great deal of angst. He wants to fly around the planet and save people, but thanks to his earth daddy, Jonathon Kent…
Six reasons why Superman is Jesus in ‘Man of Steel’
Last night I attended a press screening of the latest installment of the Superman franchise, “Man of Steel,” directed by Zack Snyder and produced by "Batman" director Christopher Nolan. An…
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Archie Comics feature film in the works
Archie comics lovers, rejoice!
Israel’s SodaStream inks deal with KitchenAid
The Israeli company SodaStream agreed to develop a home system for making carbonated drinks for KitchenAid appliances.
Barbra Streisand receives Honorary Doctorate from The Hebrew University
Barbra Streisand, after receiving an honorary doctorate from The Hebrew University, stands in front of the plaque of the Institute of Jewish Studies Building, established in 1984 in honor of…
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An Old-New Way of Looking at Judaism
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A Cinematic Passover Memory
One Israeli Creation for the Weekend
One Israeli Creation for the Weekend
Henry Jaglom’s ‘45 Minutes from Broadway’
Craig Zobel’s ‘Compliance’ and the Holocaust-inspired Milgram Experiment [VIDEO]
‘Killer Joe’s’ William Friedkin: ‘I could have been a very violent person’ [VIDEO]
Andrew Garfield: The Jewish Spidey [SLIDESHOW]
‘That’s My Boy’ reviews: They could have been worse
Meet the filmmakers of the French megahit “The Intouchables” [VIDEO]
From Sundance to Jerusalem
‘American Reunion’ scribes on A Very Harold & Kumar Passover
Paul Weitz on dads, De Niro and “Being Flynn”
Hollywood celebrates ... Itself
Revisiting Jonah Hill, Oscar nominee!
Ben Lewin’s ‘The Surrogate’ wins at Sundance, and beyond
Sundance: Helen Hunt as a sexual surrogate
Jonah Hill: ‘Moneyball’s’ super-talented, super-nice Jewish boy [VIDEO]
‘50/50’s’ Will Reiser to compete against Woody, Diablo
The Cinderella stories of Aline Brosh McKenna
“Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’s” Steven Berkoff: ‘in yer face’
Could Katy Perry play Marilyn Monroe?
Israel’s First Slasher Flick at Screamfest! [VIDEO]
Rod Lurie On Dustin Hoffman and His Remake of Sam Peckinpah’s “Straw Dogs”
Laughter: It’s The Best Medicine in Rogen and Reiser’s ‘50/50’ [VIDEO]
Sam Worthington on Playing a Holocaust Survivor and Mossad Agent in “The Debt” [VIDEO]
Israel’s bad boy of cinema gets L.A. fest
“My country, Israel, is full of contradictions and volcanic eruptions. We fluctuate between extremes. One morning you say peace is at hand and all problems will be resolved. The next day, it’s the apocalypse.” The thumbnail description comes from Amos Gitai, who, more than any other Israeli filmmaker, has explored the emotional peaks and valleys of his people in more than 40 feature films and documentaries.
Master Class: Israelis and Angelenos learn the secrets of show business
Such quintessential "biz" questions proved to be hot topics for a select group of 25 film and television professionals from Los Angeles and Tel Aviv as they sat in a conference room July 13 at The Jewish Federation's Goldsmith Center. It was still early in the morning on the first full day of the ninth annual Master Class in Cinema and Television, but already people seemed to be in the throes of furious note-taking as they listened to tricks-of-the-trade advice from several Hollywood veterans.
Israelis Do the Riviera
Amid the celebrities and paparazzi crowding the Cannes Film Festival last week, Katriel Schory roamed the bustling boulevard Croisette like a proud parent. "Israeli cinema has never had such a presence here," Schory, director of the Israel Film Fund, said via the cell phone that seems attached to his ear.
New Setting Could Bring New Faces
There is an old Jewish saying that if you change your place, you change your luck. The organizers of the 21st annual Israel Film Festival are putting it to the test.
7 Days in the Arts
Invasion of the Creature Feature
In 1956's "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," a mannequin-like figure mysteriously appears on a billiards table, a half-formed thing without hair, face or fingerprints. Meanwhile, a woman insists that her uncle isn't her uncle, but an imposter who looks just like him; husbands say the same of their wives and children of their parents.
A Life to the Mind
What you notice in almost every shot is the hair: abundant, snow-white, carefully coiffed.
It's an apt metaphor for Jacques Derrida's mind, which is prolific with ideas, yet well-ordered and consistent in its probity and depth. In a new documentary, filmmakers Amy Ziering Kofman and Kirby Dick make arresting cinema from the mind, memories and habits of a man whose life has been devoted to thought.
Derrida, a Jew born in Algeria in 1930, is identified with deconstructionism, a system of thought that challenges established assumptions about the knowledge of what is true and real. But the 85-minute film is far from a static parade of talking heads. Exposition of Derrida's ideas comes mostly through voice-over readings from his books that accompany shots of the philosopher walking from one place to another or scenes of a gritty, industrial Paris rushing past a moving car.
Groundbreaking Cinema
In "Hit and Runway," a straight Italian-American naif teams up with a gay Jew to write a screenplay. In "Aimee & Jaguar," a Jewish woman and a Nazi's wife begin a torrid affair. In "Man is a Woman," a gay man marries a woman, a Yiddish singer, who has never known a man.
Casting His Vote
Sixty one and still full of surprises, that'sWarren Beatty. This weekend, Beatty goes head to head at the boxoffice with "The Horse Whisperer," starring that other senior iconRobert Redford. Redford, like his contemporary Beatty, not only starsbut also directs and produces his movie. May the best man win.
The Movies’ Music Man
The list of films for which Elmer Bernstein has written orchestral scores reads like a roll call of cinema's all-time classics: "The Ten Commandments," "The Age of Innocence," "The Magnificent Seven," "Ghostbusters," "To Kill A Mockingbird," "CapeFear," "True Grit," "Animal House," "The Great Escape," "My Left Foot"...just to name a few.
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