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Drug abuse, shame and the Holocaust figure in film about family of notorious Dutch lawyers
In a country where 75 percent of Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, the Moszkowicz family of lawyers stood out as a unique Jewish success story.
Producer Artur Brauner donates ‘Europa, Europa,’ other films to Berlin Jewish Museum
Film producer Artur Brauner, 97, a Polish-born Jew who made Germany his home, has donated 21 of his works to the Jewish Museum in Berlin.
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.
U.S. envoy to Libya killed over anti-Muslim movie
The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other American diplomats were killed, and the U.S. embassy in Cairo was attacked over an anti-Muslim movie.
Director of anti-Muslim movie that sparked attacks on U.S. facilities not Israeli
The director of an anti-Islam film that helped sparked attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities is not Israeli as he claimed, a consultant to the film said.
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.\”