Currently Browsing: December 2015
“Therefore choose life.” There are a whole lot of commandments–not to mention rules, regulations, exhortations, prescriptions, proscriptions etc, etc–in the Hebrew Bible, but I was taught that this was number one. Even during periods as extreme as the Spanish Inquisition, one should always choose Life. Pull down the shades, light the candles, and say the Shema […]
After a month of previews, Broadway’s fifth Fiddler on the Roof premiered today at the Broadway Theatre at 1681 Broadway (on the corner of 53rd Street). This is the final event – some might even say the culminating event – in the worldwide celebration of the 50th anniversary of Fiddler’s first Broadway performance in 1964. […]
Told through a combination of live footage and animated illustration, Slawomir Grunberg’s Karski & the Lords of Humanity brings to life the story of one man’s courageous efforts to share the atrocities facing Poland’s Jews during World War II. (EML: 4.5/5) Review by FF2 Associate Eliana Levenson Using live footage from Claude Lanzmann’s comprehensive Holocaust documentary “Shoah,” Grunberg […]
Steve Carell–in a transformative performance–stars as “Mark Baum,” the moral center in a riveting story about the the “Subprime Mortgage Crisis” of 2008. Director Adam McKay and his co-writer Charles Randolph have based their screenplay on The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (the non-fiction best-seller published by Michael Lewis in 2010). The result is an instant classic […]