Currently Browsing: April 2012
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 three recent films; a related column by JUF News editor Cindy Sher will discuss the […]
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 playwright and screenwriter, had based his 2002 stage play The Talking Cure on John Kerr’s […]
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 playwright and screenwriter, had based his 2002 stage play The Talking Cure on John Kerr’s […]
From Tzivi’s May ’12 Spotlight: Returning to the 21st Century Just as this column was about to go to press, I learned that Frank Rich (longtime New York Times drama critic turned political pundit) will do a special program at Steppenwolf Theatre on Halsted on Monday May 7. Best-known to “culture vultures” as the New […]
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 three recent films; a related column by JUF News editor Cindy Sher will discuss the new […]
Chicago Hadassah’s Agam members toured the National Museum of Mexican Art today, & I was asked to do an introduction during the luncheon (prior to the tour). I spoke on one of my favorite topics: The Far-Flung Jewish Diaspora. To fully understand the Zionist dream of “Ingathering of the Exiles,” I believe Jews need to […]
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 Festival & luckily I was able to attend both. I won’t kid you: The Prize is […]
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 film to watch but beautifully done & very worthwhile. Mazel Tov, Schvester Paula! Alas, as […]
From April ’12 Spotlight: Nathan Englander came to the Harold Washington Library Center in February to read from What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, his latest collection of short stories. As the translator of New American Haggadah, Englander is actually promoting two books right now, and although they are outwardly […]
From April ’12 Spotlight: Ellen Cassedy spoke about her new book We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaustat KAM Isaiah Israel in Hyde Park in March, and she is returning for a program sponsored by the Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture (near Midway Airport) on Sunday, April 29. We Are Here—the title of which […]