Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Oct 4, 2008

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Religulous

I am happy to report that the Angelika had this film going on three screens at the same time. Good.
I am also happy to report that yesterday, as I took some out-of-towners on a tour of Manhattan, I saw a booth of the NY City Atheists in front of the Time Warner Center. I had no time to stop and chat, but I…

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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Oct 17, 2008

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Happy Go Lucky

Wow. I love this film. Sally Hawkins gives a spectacular, miraculous performance as Poppy, a 30 year old woman who is always…

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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Oct 27, 2008

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Grande Enchilada: Auteure

Greetings from Mexico City, darlings, where I am shepherding my little short at the 6th International Jewish Film Festival. It is great to see the audience’s reaction, which is very different than in the States. There, people laugh out loud, whereas here they just titter. Mr…

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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Oct 27, 2008

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I messed with the Zohan

I had not seen this movie, because like Borat, I wasn’t sure I wanted to. I saw it yesterday on a Blueray dvd (it’s…

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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Oct 12, 2008

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NY Film Festival: Bullet in the Head

That is what watching this movie felt like, you were pining for a bullet in the head to get you out of your misery. I have never seen so many people decamp at a screening. I had an extra ticket that went unclaimed by several friends and I was thanking the Gods of…

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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Oct 20, 2008

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W.

The movie doesn’t work, which is a huge pity, not only because it could have been a fitting last rebuke to the Worst President Ever, but because Josh Brolin’s wonderful performance gets a little lost in the generally schematic presentation.
Brolin is turning out to be one of the best young actors today. Check him out as…

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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Oct 27, 2008

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NY Film Festival: 24 City

I have seen three films by Jia Zhangke. Still Life, The World and now 24 City. In all of them Jia is worried sick…

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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Oct 12, 2008

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NY Film Festival: The Wrestler

Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler is a classic fighter movie and it is a conventional melodrama full of clichés. However, there is something so painfully vibrant about it, that it transcends its very conventional story in ways that particularly resonate today.I see it as a…

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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Oct 22, 2008

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Let The Right One In

Let the right one in is one of the most impressive films I have seen in a long time. A masterful, sweet, horrific, funny…

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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Oct 5, 2008

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The NY Film Festival: Gomorrah

This is the movie I most wanted to see in the NY Film Festival. It is a mafia movie based on the book by Roberto Saviano about the Camorra, the powerful mafia syndicates in Naples.
If you think you are going to sit through an epic parade of endearing glorified goons like…

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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Oct 26, 2008

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Films on a Plane

First I saw Get Smart, the movie version with Steve Carell. It was very sad, since even though Carell may be the only person…

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