Currently Browsing: January 2014
Doc filmmaker Gastón Solnicki comes from a boisterous Jewish family that arrived in Argentina soon after the end of WWII. Grandparents-Janek & Pola-were both Holocaust survivors & father Victor (born in Poland) was an infant when he arrived in Argentina. Gastón, a member of Argentine Generation #3 begins filming when his own son Mateo is […]
Full Title = Life Is Strange: “There was a time when they were children too…” First time filmmaker Isaac Hertz has admirable intentions in Life Is Strange. He sets out to record interviews with Holocaust survivors–all now very elderly–in order to preserve their words for new generations. Very admirable, but unfortunately this is cinematic landscape […]
DAY ELEVEN OF THE 2014 NEW YORK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL Before the Revolution by Dan Shadur & Barak Heymann In the 21st Century, Iran is a major power in the Middle East and one of Israel’s greatest existential enemies. So it will no doubt surprise many people to learn that in the 20th Century, the Iranian […]
DAY SEVEN OF THE 2014 NEW YORK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL After her mother dies, a grieving daughter (Sylvie Testud) finds documents that reveal a lost chapter in the lives of her parents. Gorgeous semi-autobiographical period film written & directed by Diane Kurys turns out to be about French Holocaust survivors who find it difficult to put […]