Films: Interfaith marriage wrong fit for ‘Pajamas’ director

By Steven Rosen
Published on November 22, 2006

It would be easy to assume that director-writer Jeff Lipsky, whose "Flannel Pajamas" intimately chronicles the arduous rise and tragic fall of a Jewish man's marriage to a Catholic woman, is a relative newcomer to independent film. After all, this is but his second movie. His first, 1997's "Childhood's End," was a little-seen coming-of-age story about several young people in Minneapolis. But Lipsky actually is one of the most important names in the indie world. Just not as a director. Not yet, anyway.

The ‘White’ Stuff

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on April 18, 2002

"Jane White Is Sick & Twisted," which opens the Hollywood Underground Film Festival May 9, began when director David Michael Latt was feeling sick and, well, twisted at another festival in 1997. Latt, 35, had aspired to direct since his movie-themed bar mitzvah at Congregation Kol Tikvah, but many of his indie films were stuck in straight-to-video hell. Meanwhile, the festival darlings were being touted for shlocky flicks about incest or necrophilia. "It was like, exploit a sensational topic, and it doesn't matter if your movie is any good," he says. There's a sheepish pause. "Of course, I was jealous."