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NORMAN: THE MODERATE RISE AND TRAGIC FALL OF A NEW YORK FIXER — Joseph Cedar Interview

April 22, 2017 By Leave a Comment

NORMAN: THE MODERATE RISE AND TRAGIC FALL OF A NEW YORK FIXER — Joseph Cedar Interview

Shoes loom large in the story of NORMAN: THE MODERATE RISE AND TRAGIC FALL OF A NEW YORK FIXER. So, it was only right that when I spoke with that film’s writer/director, Joseph Cedar, on April 6, 2017, there would be a question or two about the expensive pair that is both the best and… Read More »

Tagged With: cantor, Court Jew, Designer shoes, Israel, Israeli politics, Lanvin, location filming, macher, Oren Moverman, Richard Gere, TIME OUT OF MIND, Yiddsh

NORMAN: THE MODERATE RISE AND TRAGIC FALL OF A NEW YORK FIXER

April 18, 2017 By Leave a Comment

NORMAN: THE MODERATE RISE AND TRAGIC FALL OF A NEW YORK FIXER

The title character of NORMAN: THE MODERATE RISE AND TRAGIC FALL OF A NEW YORK FIXER, lives in a world of endless possibilities. Spinning schemes, half-truths, and complete fictions into a confident spiel about enormous profits and helpful introductions, he wanders the streets of New York stalking his prey of people on the edges of… Read More »

Tagged With: expensive shoes, finance, fixer, Israel, macher, New York, scheme

ON THE MAP — Dani Menkin Interview

July 22, 2016 By Leave a Comment

ON THE MAP — Dani Menkin Interview

It was the year, according to filmmaker Dani Menkin, when everything felt right. It was 1977 and the Maccabi basketball team was making history for the young country. Many years later, Menkin would make a documentary about the “miracle on hardwood” that played such a big part of his childhood. When I spoke with him… Read More »

Tagged With: air conditioning, Aulcie Perry, basketball, Belgium, cold war, European Championship, Hey Jude Productions, Israel, Jewish identity, Natan Sharansky, NBA, Red Army, Soviet Union, Tal Brody, Yom Kippur War

ZERO DAYS — Alex Gibney, Eric Chien & Liam O’Murchu

July 6, 2016 By Leave a Comment

ZERO DAYS — Alex Gibney, Eric Chien & Liam O’Murchu

Liam O’Murchu was the first person at Symantec to see the STUXnet code, and, as he told me when we talked on May 11, 2016, red flags went off about the elegant coding and suspicious dearth of bugs. I was interviewing him along with his colleague, Eric Chien and with Alex Gibney, the documentarian who… Read More »

Tagged With: autonomous code, bugs, centrifuge, CIA, computer security, computer virus, cybercrime, deliberate misinformation, digital certificates, Edward Snowdon, Homeland Security, informant, internet, Iran, Iranian nuclear program, Israel, malicious software, malware, Michael Hayden, Mossad, National Security Agency, NSA, STUXNet, Symantec, tin foil hat, virtual surveillance, Vodaphone, wiretaps

PRINCESS

May 26, 2016 By Leave a Comment

PRINCESS

  PRINCESS is an intimately observed film that forces us to face some uncomfortable truths.  Told with unflinching honesty, completely eschewing the sensational in favor of the perceptive, we are plunged into a 12-year-old’s waking nightmare lived in a highly sexualized atmosphere created by her mother and her mother’s live-in boyfriend. The girl is Adar… Read More »

Tagged With: Family, imaginary friend, inappropriate bonding, Israel, mother-daughter relationship, pedophilia, puberty

PRESENTING PRINCESS SHAW

May 24, 2016 By Leave a Comment

PRESENTING PRINCESS SHAW

Princess Shaw (AKA Samantha Montgomery) is a larger than life personality. It’s only fitting that she should have a larger than life experience, and to have it documented in PRESENTING PRINCESS SHAW, a documentary about hope, determination, and talent getting the attention it’s due. Princess was working at a nursing home to pay the bills,… Read More »

Tagged With: abuse, Atlanta, composing, Ido Haar, internet, Israel, Kutiman, New Orleans, Princess Shaw, remixing music, singing, The Voice, viral video, You Tube, You Tube-ers

Shlomi Elkabetz Records GETT: THE TRIAL OF VIVIANE AMSALEM

February 11, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Shlomi Elkabetz Records GETT: THE TRIAL OF VIVIANE AMSALEM

GETT, the Hebrew word for a bill of divorce, is the third film in a trilogy made by brother-and-sister filmmakers Shlomi and Ronit Elkabetz. The theme, as Shlomi explained to me on October 6, 2014, is freedom, specifically women’s freedom in the modern world. Inspired by their mother’s life, it’s a contemplation on the nature… Read More »

Tagged With: Arab Jew, Ashkenazi, Bet Din, cinema, definition of beauty, director, divorce, film, gett, interview, Israel, Israeli cinema, light design, Maghreb, Menashe Noy, Ministry of Justice, Morocco, progressive, right of return, screenwriter, Sephard, Shomi Elkabetz, Simon Abkarian, sound design, trial, women's rights, Yemeni

Meeting THE GREEN PRINCE with Nadav Schirman, Gonen Ben Yitzak & Mossab Hassan Yousef

October 22, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Meeting THE GREEN PRINCE with Nadav Schirman, Gonen Ben Yitzak & Mossab Hassan Yousef

When THE GREEN PRINCE made its west coast debut at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival on July 24, 2014, no one in the audience knew that the subjects of the documentary, former Shin Beit agent Gonen Ben Yitzak, and Mossab Hassan Yousef, the Palestinian son of a founder of Hamas, and the man Gonen recruited… Read More »

Tagged With: cinema, documentary, film, Gonen Ben Yitzak, Hamas, Israel, Mossab Hassan Yousef, movie, Nadav Schirman, Palestine, Shin Beit, SON OF HAMAS, THE GREEN PRINCE

Alan Rickman Experiences BOTTLE SHOCK

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Alan Rickman Experiences BOTTLE SHOCK

When I spoke with Alan Rickman on July 27, 2008, it was in the course of a press junket at Chateau Montelena, a key location in, BOTTLE SHOCK. These junkets are usually the fluffiest of proceedings, with lightweight questions and limited time being the rule. Hence, questions about the mystery of wine and finding just… Read More »

Tagged With: Alan Rickman, BOTTLE SHOCK, California wines, French wines, Gaza, Israel, Oenophile, Palestinians, Rachel Corrie, sommelier, viniculture, wine, wine competition, wine tasting

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