Currently Browsing: May 2015
Director Felix Moeller thoughtfully addresses the question of what to do with films made in Germany during the Nazi Era: destroy them, preserve them or just let them rot. (3.5/5) ************************* Felix Moeller’s new documentary Forbidden Films opens in an eerie location which looks like the site of a low budget SciFi film set in an abandoned […]
Lisa Rivo, co-director of the National Center for Jewish Film, to speak at Spertus In 1938, Lodz, Poland’s second largest city, was a dynamic center of manufacturing and commerce, and approximately one-third of its residents-almost a quarter of a million people-were Jewish. Within five years, the Jewish population had been “purified” by the Nazis, and […]