Currently Browsing: October 2012
From Tzivi’s CIFF 2012 Sneak Peek: The High Holidays are over and it’s film festival time again. I have already provided readers with a “Sneak Peek” of my Top Pick for this year’s Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema (My Australia), and by next week copies of “Tzivi’s Guide to the 2012 CFIC” will begin arriving […]
From Tzivi’s CIFF 2012 Sneak Peek: The big winner at the 2011 Ophir Award ceremony last year (aka “the Israeli Oscars”) was Footnote (Hearat Shulayim), which went on to receive one of the five coveted spots for Best Foreign Language Film from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences last January. I wrote about […]
The High Holidays are over and it’s film festival time again. I have already provided readers with a “Sneak Peek” of my Top Pick for this year’s Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema (My Australia), and by next week copies of “Tzivi’s Guide to the 2012 CFIC” will begin arriving in your snail mail boxes. But […]
From Tzivi’s September ’12 Spotlight: Filmmaker Paul Mazursky is one of those Jewish guys from Brooklyn who helped change American culture forever after World War II. I was a teenager when Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice was released in 1969, and I remember it well as a “water cooler event.” BCTA raked in […]
From Tzivi’s September ’12 Spotlight: Paul Mazursky was born in Brooklyn in 1930. Daniel Kahn was born in Detroit in 1978. No, Mazursky and Kahn are not related, but they do share a playfully subversive sensibility across the generations. In 2005, Kahn moved to Berlin where he became a member of the suddenly exploding European […]
From Tzivi’s September ’12 Spotlight: Way back in February, communicating my concerns about Kenneth Lonergan’s new film Margaret, I wrote: “Even giving Lonergan the benefit of the doubt and assuming much was lost in the editing process [from the director’s cut down to the much shorter theatrical version], rarely have I seen such despicable caricatures […]
Filmmaker Paul Mazursky is one of those Jewish guys from Brooklyn who helped change American culture forever after World War II. I was a teenager when Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice was released in 1969, and I remember it well as a “water cooler event.” BCTA raked in four Oscar nominations (plus awards […]
May 18, 2013 Update: It Is No Dream review wins First Place certificate in category 8C (Feature Story for an Online Publication) from IWPA! Tzivi reviews It Is No Dream It Is No Dream, a new documentary about the life of Theodor Herzl, opens locally today at the Wilmette Theatre after runs in New York […]
CFIC 2012 Sneak Peek: Tzivi reviews My Australia (with references also to Torn & The Secret) Ten years ago, in August 2002, Roman Polanski was preparing for the Warsaw premiere of his new film The Pianist. Although first seen in May at the Cannes Film Festival (where it won the Palme d’Or), the Warsaw premiere […]
From Tzivi’s August ’12 Spotlight: In March 2009, I received a screener from the coordinator of our annual Chicago Latino Film Festival for a new Argentinian feature called La Cámara Oscura. I was entranced by this film, and wrote very positive things about it in my April ’09 column. Soon after, I began receiving calls […]