Currently Browsing: January 2011
Nora’s Will opens today @ Chicago’s Music Box Theater. Here’s what I wrote back in April when I saw Nora’s Will (alone on a DVD screener) before it premiered locally at the 2010 Chicago Latino Film Festival: This year’s Chicago Latino Film Festival features Nora’s Will (Cinco días sin Nora), a Mexican dramedy written and […]
Weds 1/26/11, I was asked to lead an “Israeli Film Night” screening of Noodle at North Shore Congregation Israel (co-sponsored by ARZA & AZM). I hadn’t seen Noodle since it played in our local Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema way back in 2008, but I remembered liking it a lot, so I said yes. Good […]
Cellist Racheli Galay will present the program “Cello Heroes–Stutschewsky” at KAM Isaiah Israel on Mon Feb 7th (co-sponsored by the Chicago Cello Society). I’ve heard Racheli give versions of this program last March (at the University of Chicago) & last April (for ARZA), & both times I was entranced, so I will definitely be @ KAMII on […]
Last Sunday night, actor Paul Giamatti received a Golden Globe Award (Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical) for his performance as “Barney Panofsky” in Richard Lewis’ new film Barney’s Version. In my January ’11 Spotlight for the JUF News, I wrote: “I truly enjoyed Barney’s Version. Dustin Hoffman (as Barney’s father ‘Izzy’) and Rosamund Pike (as […]