A Blizzard of Flicks for Jewish Eyes
Naomi Pfefferman
January 19, 2006
At the Sundance wintertime festival, which began Jan. 19 and runs through Jan. 29, Jewish viewers can check out a blizzard of flicks.
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Leonard Cohen Film Toasts Songwriter
Steven Rosen
January 19, 2006
Cohen became first an accomplished poet and then, starting with 1967\’s \”Songs of Leonard Cohen\” (which contained the oft-recorded \”Suzanne\”) a singer-songwriter. According to Ira Nader\’s Cohen biography, \”Various Positions,\” Cohen\’s Judaism has influenced his songs greatly — \”Who By Fire\” is based on the melody of a Yom Kippur prayer, \”Mi Bamayim, Mi Ba Esh,\” and \”If It Be Your Will\” is derived from a \”Kol Nidre\” phrase.
Two Dark Tales Illuminated at Sundance
Robert David Jaffee
January 12, 2006
Martin Scorsese has famously influenced a whole generation of American filmmakers, from Abel Ferrara and Quentin Tarantino to Rob Weiss and Nick Gomez. But his influence is not limited to filmmakers in this country.
Sunrise, Sundance, Swiftly Fly the Films
Amy Klein
February 3, 2005
\”West Bank Story\” was one of a handful of Jewish-themed films screened at the Sundance Film Festival, which ended Sunday night in Park City, Utah. With the deafening chatter around this small town about which studio picked up which film for how many millions of dollars, it\’s hard to sniff out, not the hottest films — but the most Jewish.
Israel’s Sundance Pics Garner Praise
Tom Tugend
January 15, 2004
\”The Garden,\” which is having its world premiere at Sundance, tackles the unusual and unexplored problem of gay Palestinian teenagers, rejected by their own families, who cross the Green Line to work as male prostitutes in downtown Tel Aviv, in constant danger of deportation.
A Jewish New Wave
Harry Medved
February 12, 1998
Jewish filmmakers descended on this snowy townlast month for their annual 11-day-long holiday ritual of schmoozing,skiing and screenings, better known as the Sundance FilmFestival.
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