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Prolific horror filmmaker Wes Craven dead at 76

Prolific horror filmmaker Wes Craven, who directed the slasher classic \”A Nightmare on Elm Street,\” died on Sunday afternoon, his family said in a statement. He was 76.

Paul Mazursky, filmmaker, 84

Filmmaker Paul Mazursky, 84, whose perceptive social satires explored the nascent sexual revolution of the 1960s and ’70s and created complex Jewish characters, died June 30 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center of pulmonary cardiac arrest.

Dan Fogelman explores romance’s range in ‘Crazy, Stupid, Love’

A couple years after his Reform bar mitzvah, screenwriter Dan Fogelman devoured Philip Roth’s controversial novel “Portnoy’s Complaint.” The tome was a gift from his cousin, Ken Gordon, now the editor of the Jewish Webzine JBooks.com, “a very literary guy who was my hero growing up,” Fogelman said from New York, where he was doing press for his new comedy, “Crazy, Stupid, Love.”

Filmmaker puts JCorps in spotlight

In 2008, Adam Irving, a filmmaker and photographer, left his doctoral program in media studies at the University of Texas to make the transition from theory to practice. He landed in Hollywood with the dream of making films, but soon after his arrival found himself feeling unfulfilled by the vanity within the entertainment industry.

Reitman follows heart to quirky ‘Juno’

When Jason Reitman decided to become a filmmaker, he was not only following the path of his father, producer-director Ivan Reitman, but that of his heritage as well.

\”I think Jewish people are great storytellers,\” the 30 year-old film director said. \”Celebrating our heritage and our holidays has so much to do to with storytelling. We\’ve survived so long, partly on our ability to tell stories. I love to make people laugh, and I\’ve always had an attraction to telling stories.\”

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