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Calendar Girls Picks and Clicks Dec. 6 - 12: Poetry of La Norte, love and latkes
Q&A with Yair Hochner—founder of Tel Aviv’s first gay and lesbian film festival
Before the 33-year-old Hochner made "Antarctica," he shot his award-winning "Good Boys," for $500; and founded Tel Aviv's first gay and lesbian film festival.
Annie Leibovitz, Ed Asner, Shelly Berman, Lainie Kazan and Elliot Gould
Israeli film ‘Waltz With Bashir’ has an anti-war beat
The oddly titled film combines state-of-the-art animation, an anti-war documentary theme and a psychoanalytic approach to recover the memory of a traumatized Israeli soldier.
Propaganda film disguised horrors of Terezin
It's in the nearby city of Terezin that one of the most unique, if bizarre stories of the period can be found. And it's all captured in the grainy film produced by the Nazis.
Producer Arnon Milchan’s goal: Broker Mideast peace
"I really, really believe that I have the skills, the courage, the conviction and the know-how to make a difference in the peace process in the Middle East."
Bill Maher gets downright ‘Religulous’
"What I am saying is if you are religious at all, you are an extremist," Maher said in a phone interview last week.
VIDEO: Israeli documentary director Elan Frank shoots Sarah Palin
Israel documentary director talks about his shoot with Gov. Sarah Palin
Shooting Sarah Palin
Earlier this year, he called the office of the governor of Alaska to ask permission to shoot Sarah Palin for his new film, a documentary about powerful women of the world. Because he had spent a lot of time in Alaska, he'd heard about the feisty Palin and thought she'd be a natural.
Fields of Dreams
I used to think that between the time of the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 A.D., and the birth of Israel in 1948, there was no such thing as an
exclusively Jewish city. Sure, there were plenty of Jewish ghettos and neighborhoods scattered throughout the globe, but a city with only Jews in it? I never imagined it.
Documentary goes behind the music video with Chutzpah
"My big idea for the CD was, 'Let's give this to our families for Chanukah,'" Hyams said. "I never thought we'd get a record deal, because I figured 'This is stupid and Jewish and no one cares except us.'"
Going home again is truly a family affair for filmmaker Azazel Jacobs
"I remember at an early age being told in school that Jews were a minority in the world," filmmaker Azazel Jacobs mused. "And I remember just not believing that because I lived in New York City and thinking they must have things wrong because I was surrounded by so many Jews. That was the whole world to me."
The Hollywood candidate is not Obama
If John McCain wins this election, it will be because of Hollywood.
All I want for Ramadan is you!
Documentary explores UCLA alumna’s past as a child prostitute
Her chance came when she heard Sauvage say he intended to create financing for a movie as his summer MBA project in 2005. "You should make your movie about me," she told him. Sauvage, who at the time did not know she had been abused, cavalierly replied that unless she had been a child prostitute, he wasn't interested.
Calendar Girls Picks and Clicks July 26-August 1—Rothman, Pressman live
Prolific Israeli producer-director tries Hollywood
Israeli producer-director Uri Paster has four movie and theater projects planned this year
The Industry, Israel and Idealism with Danny Sussman
Israeli film ‘My Father My Lord’—Abraham’s binding of Isaac redux
In the Israeli film "My Father My Lord," the secular or casually religious Jew encounters a world whose mindset and lifestyle might as well be thousands of miles and centuries away. It is the world of the charedi, or ultra-Orthodox, community, in which every action, every thought, is determined by God's law, as elucidated by the sages.
Guerilla filmmaker brings verite ‘Pleasure’ to robbery
For Safdie, filmmaking is an extended family affair. His brother Benny, whose own short film was screened at Cannes, is part of the merry band of movie makers at Redbucket Films, which Sadie describes as "kind of like a tree house for kids who wanna grow old together."
Arts in L.A. Calendar June—August
Israeli films take a lead role at Cannes
Against a backdrop of threatening skies, clearly not a metaphor for the future of Israel's film industry, two Israeli feature films premiered on May 15, opening day of the 61st Cannes Film Festival. And a short by Israeli student filmmaker Elad Keidan took first prize in the Cinefondation, a competition supporting new talent.
Rubbernecking the Holocaust
In this way, Kofman says he is "unfortunately" a bit like the anti-hero of his debut feature film, "The Memory Thief," who becomes so obsessed with the grotesque details of videotaped survivors' testimonies that he is "virtually rubbernecking the Holocaust."
Israel and I: The first 60 years
By ship and plane, I've traveled to Israel 15 times over the last 60 years and, looking back, my relationship to the Jewish state has a certain Zelig-like quality.
A birthday gift
Here we are, Jews in every corner of the world, awash in a frenzy of celebrations for Israel -- all because of a birthday. And not just any birthday, mind you, but one that ends in a zero.
Hollywood-Israel link flourishing
A group of hotshot Hollywood television executives sit around a table sipping Evian water, working their cellphones and bemoaning the lack of fresh ideas for a series to pull their network out of the cellar.
New generation has a new take on Israel
Earlier this spring, David Weiner, a 32-year-old social studies curriculum publisher from Los Angeles, went on an unlikely pairing of back-to-back missions to Israel.
Identity theft at Jewish Film Fest
Judy Toll is one funny valentine
So what can you say about a 44-year-old comedian who died? That she leaves a certain legacy of laughter, through the efforts of her brother, to those who never heard of her.
Jewish life in the City of Lights
Calendar Girl Danielle Berrin finds herself in Paris for Pesach
Jewish life in the City of Lights
Current statistics suggests that, even though France is depicted as less than empathetic to the Jewish community, the Jewish population there has actually grown.
Rivers, refuseniks and traitors come together at L.A. Jewish Film Festival
The Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival will appropriately mark Israel's 60th anniversary with an opening film on the country's transition from British mandate to independent state.
Settle down
Lori Gottlieb isn't advocating marrying a man who repulses you or puts you to sleep every time he answers the question, "How was your day, dear?"
‘Pieces’ fall into place for Israeli actress
"I long for the loss of memory," grieves Jakob, the central character in "Fugitive Pieces," a sensitive, at times wrenching, film based on the best-selling novel by Canadian poet Anne Michaels and directed by her countryman, Jeremy Podeswa, the son of Holocaust survivors.
Debra Winger explores Jewish/Arab day schools
Students at the Hand in Hand Max Rayne Bilingual School in Jerusalem didn't know they were meeting a celebrity. They weren't born when the films "Officer and a Gentleman" and "Terms of Endearment" garnered Debra Winger her Oscar nominations.
Movies: Polish drama explores Jewish-Catholic relations
In contrast to the other 45 presentations at the current Polish Film Festival, "Forgiveness" is in English with an American cast and set in a contemporary American city. However, the director and storywriter is Poland's Mariusz Kotowski, and the film's mood is shaped by memories of wartime Poland.
How Hollywood’s Hunt ‘Found’ Elinor Lipman’s novel
Elinor Lipman, writer of smart and often hilarious modern-day social satire, considers herself "the luckiest writer." Her first novel, "Then She Found Me," well-received when it was published in 1990 and selling steadily ever since, has inspired the film of the same name -- starring, co-written and directed by Helen Hunt -- that opens in theaters this Friday.
My two cents on “Sarah Marshall”
Teen angst bring laughs film director won’t ‘Forget’
Nicholas Stoller remembers the day he joined the "Jew-Tang Clan," the creative posse led by comedy wunderkind Judd Apatow ("The 40-year-old Virgin," "Knocked Up").
Apatow was interviewing the then-24-year-old writer for a job on his 2000 college sitcom, "Undeclared."
Spurlock embarks on a cinematic quest for Osama
When writer/director Morgan Spurlock ("Super Size Me") discovered he was going to become a father two years ago, he was concerned about the tumultuous state of the world into which his child was being born. Spurlock's wish was to give his child a safer and more harmonious place to live. So, after a crash course in combat survival, the filmmaker set off on a journey through the Middle East to find the one man who has shaped the world's perception of that region in recent years: Osama bin Laden. The results of that quest are documented in his new film, "Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?"
Celebrating Israel’s 60th, Skirball Style
There are many ways to celebrate Israel's 60th anniversary, and the Skirball Cultural Center is leading with its strength by offering a series of wide-ranging programs of art shows, music, film and lectures.
Obituaries
Obituaries.
David’s the singer, he’s the rapper
Oded Turgeman, director of the new short film "Song of David," doesn't do things the easy way.
How Tinseltown shaped the world’s view of the Holocaust
Hollywood movies and television have shaped the way most of the world perceives the Final Solution, narrator Gene Hackman observes at the beginning of "Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust." It is a statement that may not sit too well with generations of historians and authors, but the evidence validates the conclusion.
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Calendar Girls picks and clicks for March 22-28
Calendar Girls picks and clicks for March 22-28
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Spring arts calender.
Picks and clicks for March 15-21
Picks and clicks for March 15-21
Films: Director examines healing from surgery, grief
Seated at his office in Beverly Hills, Ben Mittleman, 57, doesn't have a trace of gray in his sandy-brown hair. He says his mother used to kid him that he must have had a "facelift or something," but despite the fact that this veteran TV actor turned director-producer looks 10 years younger than his age, he underwent heart surgery in 2001. That experience is the subject of "Dying to Live," along with his response to the cancers that later took the lives of both his mother and his wife, Valerie. The film premieres Thursday, March 13, at Laemmle's Music Hall, where it will screen for two weeks.
Films: It would never happen in Hollywood
The Israeli film, "Beaufort," has earned international recognition for its unvarnished portrayal of men at war and for its acting, directing and cinematography. But the movie is even more remarkable for what it tells us about the inner strength of the embattled country in confronting the vulnerabilities of its most revered institutions, even while the wounds of the first and second Lebanon wars are still fresh.
Calendar Girls picks and kicks for March 8 -15
Calendar Girls picks and kicks for March 8 -15
Movies: ‘Chicago 10’ finds modern parallels to 1968 trial
"I have a strong kinship with Abbie Hoffman," admitted Brett Morgen, writer and director of the semidocumentary film, "Chicago 10." "I haven't seen anyone in my lifetime that spoke to me the way he did." It was during the 1969 Chicago conspiracy trial that Hoffman and his co-defendants were dubbed "The Chicago 8." The radical group also included Yippie co-founder Jerry Rubin and Tom Hayden, a future California assemblyman and state senator. While researching his film, Morgen found an interview with Rubin that said they should be called the Chicago 10 because their lawyers, William Kunstler and Leonard Weinglass, were charged and sentenced for contempt. Taking his cue from Rubin, Morgen named his film "Chicago 10."
Calendar Girls picks and kicks for March 1 - 7
Calendar Girls picks and kicks for March 1 - 7
Crooks aid Nazi cash plot in Austria’s Oscar hopeful
Austria's "Counterfeiters," one of five foreign-language films vying for Oscar honors, probes the moral dilemmas facing a special group of Jewish concentration camp inmates in one of the more remarkable episodes of World War II.
How the West was funny
We haven't kept up with Ari Sandel since the nice Jewish boy from Calabasas came out of nowhere last year to win an Oscar for his hilarious short film "West Bank Story." His second venture, "Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights -- Hollywood to the Heartland," has opened to excellent reviews and is now playing in general release.
Coen brothers, Chabon teaming up on ‘Yiddish Policemen’
In some ways, it's a most natural shidduch. There's Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist whose best-selling 2007 book, "The Yiddish Policemen's Union," marked a turning point in the author's growing exploration of Jewish themes in his fiction. And Joel and Ethan Coen, the maverick filmmakers whose Jewish sensibility has been evident in countless of their movies, but who have yet to fully actualize their Semitic humor in a full-blown Jewish film. Until now. Late last week, the Guardian revealed that the Coens had agreed to write and direct the film adaptation of "The Yiddish Policemen's Union."
The Calendar Girls: Picks, kicks and plugs
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Film shows Down syndrome no obstacle to prayer
Lior Liebling davens everywhere: in the backyard, in school and on the swing set. Some congregants at his synagogue, Mishkan Shalom of Mount Arie, Pa., call him the "little rebbe."
"The Zohar tells stories of miracle children who were spiritual geniuses," one synagogue member said. "Well, that's what Lior is."
Lior is the 13-year-old featured in the new documentary, "Praying With Lior," which highlights the bar mitzvah of a Jewish child living with Down syndrome. The character study of this boy tells of how Lior's community successfully integrates him into communal life -- a challenge many Jewish communities face with mentally and physically disabled members.
Film: Israel’s ‘Band’s Visit’ finally plays L.A.
Jewish-Arab relations, sometimes in war, occasionally in love, are frequent themes of Israeli movies, but rarely are they examined with the subtle humor and sensitivity of "The Band's Visit."
At the center of the leisurely action is the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra, eight Egyptian men in immaculate light-blue uniforms, who have come to Israel to perform at the opening of an Arab Cultural Center in Petach Tikvah.
The Calendar Girls: Picks, kicks and plugs
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