Currently Browsing: April 2014
CLICK HERE TO READ MY AUGUST UPDATE FOR CHICAGO’S JUF NEWS ************************* Argentina’s candidate for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2014 was this chilling drama about Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele (“the Angel of Death”) which imagines an upscale post-Auschwitz life for him in the Andean resort of Bariloche. Then the Israelis capture […]
BioPic about Aaron Lustiger (born in France to Jewish refugee parents in 1926), who converted to Catholicism, rose rapidly thru the church hierarchy & became a key advisor to Pope Jean Paul II. The first half may be weighed down by exposition, but once Aaron Lustiger–now calling himself Jean-Marie Lustiger–faces off against the Carmelite nuns who […]
My husband and partner Rich had no patience with Darren Aronofsky’s new take on Biblical themes. He hated it! Thumbs down! But me? I found myself unexpectedly moved… Despite all the evident flaws in Noah (too much mano-a-mano, too many “special effects”), I nevertheless found myself in tears as all the birds started flying into the ark, signaling that […]