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Bashir GSFC
Chicago’s Gene Siskel Film Center is offering two screenings of the terrific, Oscar-nominated Israeli film Waltz with Bashir on Friday May 4 & Tuesday May 8. Click HERE to order tickets from GSFC. Click HERE to read my review of … Continue reading
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MAHLER ON THE COUCH
From Tzivi’s May ’12 Spotlight — on Freud! “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar…” Seventy-two years after his death in London at age 83, Sigmund Freud, the quintessential Viennese Jew, is suddenly hot again. This column will focus on … Continue reading
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A DANGEROUS METHOD
From Tzivi’s May ’12 Spotlight: Tzivi’s DVD Collection One of our biggest disappointments at the 2011 Chicago International Film Festival last October was David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method, which he adapted for the screen with Christopher Hampton. (Hampton, an award-winning … Continue reading
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SABINA SPIELREIN
From Tzivi’s May ’12 Spotlight: Tzivi’s DVD Collection One of our biggest disappointments at the 2011 Chicago International Film Festival last October was David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method, which he adapted for the screen with Christopher Hampton. (Hampton, an award-winning … Continue reading
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Adios Paula
Filmmaker Paula Markovitch has left Chicago & is now on her way to another film festival in Seoul, South Korea. She did Q&A sessions after the two screenings of her remarkable first feature The Prize at our Chicago Latino Film … Continue reading
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CLFF The Prize
April 14 Update: OK now we’ve seen it & we all loved it (“we” = Jan & Rich plus Monica & Jim). HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, so attend the 2nd screening on Monday @ 6:15 PM if possible. This is a difficult … Continue reading
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CLFF Reus
From April ’12 Spotlight: This year the 28th annual Chicago Latino Film Festival (CLFF) brings us Reus from Uruguay. Barrio Reus is the name of a Jewish enclave in Montevideo, now a slum near the waterfront docks, and one of … Continue reading
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Ha Hov
Wikipedia: “A debt is an obligation owed by one party (the debtor) to a second party, (the creditor); usually this refers to assets granted by the creditor to the debtor, but the term can also be used metaphorically to cover … Continue reading
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FOOTNOTE Teaser
On Sunday February 26, Israeli director Joseph Cedar was in LA. His new film Footnote (winner of the Best Screenplay award at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2011 & nine Ophir Awards from the Israel Film Academy in September 2011) was … Continue reading
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Women Unchained
From March ’12 Spotlight: On Sunday, March 11, Spertus Institute will host the local premiere of Women Unchained, a new “Get-o-nomics 101″ documentary by Chicago filmmaker Beverly Siegel. When the husband of a married woman refuses to grant her a Jewish divorce … Continue reading
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