Category Archives: Tzivi's News

Adios Paula

Posted on April 18, 2012 by

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

Posted on April 12, 2012 by

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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Mazel Tov, Cyndee!

Posted on April 12, 2012 by

From April ’12 Spotlight: Cyndee Schaffer’s book Mollie’s War: The Letters of a WWII WAC in Europe just won first place in the 2012 Royal Dragonfly Contest in the Biography/Autobiography/Memoir category! Schaffer has numerous public appearances planned for the spring, … Continue reading →

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Oscar Noms 2012

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

Posted today by JUF Online: Another year, another set of Oscar nominations. First the good news: Joseph Cedar’s Footnote scored another nomination for Israel in the Best Foreign Language Film (BFLF) category, making this Israel’s fourth nomination in the last … Continue reading →

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Kudos for Albert Brooks

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

Missing on this year’s list of Oscar nominations: Albert Brooks! Brooks was named Best Supporting Actor by the Chicago Film Critics Association in December for playing” Bernie Rose” in Drive. Now I actually hated Drive, but Brooks was so surprising—and … Continue reading →

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New News: FOOTNOTE

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

Great news from LA: Joe Cedar received his second Oscar nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film (BFLF) category yesterday for Footnote, his 2011 drama staring Lior Ashkenazi. Footnote also received the Best Screenplay award last year at Cannes. Cedar … Continue reading →

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Old News: AJAMI

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

Posting news of Israel’s 10th BFLF nomination today, I realized I had never posted this piece on Israel’s 9th BFLF nomination in 2010 (originally written for JUF Online). So here goes: Astounding news from LA: On Tuesday morning, Israel received its … Continue reading →

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Mazel Tov, Joe!

Posted on May 22, 2011 by

Shout out to Israeli director Joseph Cedar who won the Best Screenplay award @ the Cannes Film Festival today! Cedar’s latest film Hearat Shulayim (aka Footnote) stars Lior Ashkenazi–best-know for Late Marriage (2001) & Walk on Water (2004)–plus a cast of … Continue reading →

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Hooray, Jackie!

Posted on March 21, 2011 by

I had the great pleasure of a hillarious one-on-one chat with Jackie Hoffman way back in December ’09 when she came to Chicago with The Adams Family team for previews.    I was in my “nice lady from the JUF News” … Continue reading →

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TJC BEAUFORT

Posted on February 12, 2011 by

The Jewish Channel is now offering Joe Cedar’s Oscar-nominated film Beaufort in its “Feature Film” category.  Beaufort is quite simply one of the most important combat films ever made in any language, & I strongly urge you to see it. … Continue reading →

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