French Dialogue, ‘Navajo’ Subtitles
George Robinson Special To The Jewish Week NY Film Fest’s Jewish-themed offerings are moody works by European old masters; just don’t expect to understand everything.By a curious coincidence, the two...
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George Robinson Special to the Jewish Week N.Y. Film Festival features three Israeli offerings that encompass the personal and the political.In a recent interview in these pages, Richard Peña, the...
View ArticleThe Last ‘Elder’ Of Terezin
George Robinson Special To The Jewish Week Claude Lanzmann’s portrait of Rabbi Benjamin Murmelstein is more advocacy than his previous Shoah works. A few years ago, it was noted in this space that the...
View ArticleClosing With A Bang At Annual Jewish Film Festival
George Robinson Special To The Jewish Week Strong final-week offerings include a meditation on Jews and Poles, Amos Gitai’s latest and a documentary on Jews living under the Shah Note: This is the...
View ArticleLanzmann Loses His Distance
George Robinson Special To The Jewish Week ‘Shoah’ director’s latest, ‘Last of the Unjust,’ is an ethical lapse, says a longtime champion of his work. To understand how difficult it is to write this...
View ArticleGodard Goes 3-D, The Safdies Take To The Streets
George Robinson Special To The Jewish Week ‘Goodbye to Language’ and ‘Heaven Knows What’ tackle Hitler and heroin at New York Film Festival.Note: This is the first of two articles on Jewish-themed...
View ArticleFamilies On The Edge
George Robinson Special To The Jewish Week David Cronenberg and Martin Rejtman’s offerings at the N.Y. Film Festival rhyme with one another in startling ways. Note: This is the second of two articles...
View ArticleChantal Akerman, Pioneer Of Feminist Filmmaking, Dies At 65
JTA Belgian director Chantal Akerman, who pioneered feminist and experimental filmmaking, has died.read more
View ArticleDemocracy, Jackson Heights Style
George Robinson Special To The Jewish Week Midway through its three-hour running time, there is a scene in Frederick Wiseman’s new documentary, “In Jackson Heights,” in which we see a few minutes of a...
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