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Rarely seen 1923 German silent film
World Premiere of electronic music score by Thomas Köner
This Ancient Law (Das alte Gesetz)
Modern Theater at Suffolk University - Sat. Oct. 13, 7pm | Details
Image Courtesy Deutsche Cinemathek
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"Brave New World, Same Old Shtick: Cinema From New York’s
Lower East Side" - A Program of Five NCJF archival films &
post film panel with Professor Eddy Portnoy, Author David Freeland,
NCJF Associate Director Lisa Rivo
Anthology Film Archives (NYC) - Thurs. Oct. 4, 7:30pm
Presented by Cinebeasts |Program Details
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Breaking Home Ties (1922 USA Silent Feature)
OPENING NIGHT FILM
Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival - Nov. 10
Outdoor screening with live music |
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NEW FILM RELEASES
Book Now for Film Festivals & Screenings
How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire (UK)
A British filmmaker travels to the Ukraine to find his Vodka-soaked family roots. ★★★★
Punk Jews (USA)
Hassidic rockers, Yiddish street performers, African American activists smash cultural stereotypes.
Yizkor (USA)
Academy Award™ winning short film is a story of resilience in the face of crushing loss.
Nahum N. Glatzer & The German-Jewish Tradition (USA)
Filmmaker Judith Glatzer profiles her father, the prominent Jewish Studies scholar Nahum Glatzer.
Das Kind (France)
Irma Miko: Romanian Communist activist, WWII French Resistance participant. |
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Congratulations to Grace Paley: Collected Shorts
Recent Winner, Best Documentary
L.A. Film, TV & Webisode Festival
"A lively, affectionate tribute to Paley as a writer, mother, leftist, daughter of the Bronx, feminist, teacher, wife, pacifist, troublemaker” – Washington Post
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Hollywood Channels The Dybbuk
 J. Hoberman in Tablet - “Shlocky Horror Picture Show”| Link
Hannah Brown in The Forward - “The Dybbuks Made Me Do It”| Link
Tom Tugend In JTA - “The Dybbuk is Back”| Link
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Mahler on the Couch
Opening Boston November 30 - Coolidge Corner Theater | Details
Mahler Press Reviews & Raves
New York Times | Link
The Village Voice | Link
TrustMovies.com | Link
WQXR NYC | Link |
Classical TV | Link
Chicago Sun-Times | Link
Chicago Tribune | Link
Jewish Week | Link |
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Kol Nidre (1939 USA Yiddish Feature)
WORLD PREMIERE Jerusalem International Film Festival 2012
This melodrama -with romance and music- about a girl torn between two childhood boyfriends is a surprisingly risque Yiddish tearjerker! |
 
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East and West starring Molly Picon!
Religion Today Film Festival, Torino (Italy) - Oct. 11
0Cinegogue Film Series, Prague (Czech Republic) - Oct. 15 & 16
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Women Unchained | Orthodox Women & Divorce Extortion
Film helps propel major policy shift - More rabbis now requiring prenuptial agreements | Read Reviews from the New York Times, Jerusalem Post, Jewish Press and More!
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Jewish Soldiers in Blue & Gray
Film Festival Favorite! As Seen on PBS
"Fills a good-sized gap in the history of American Jewry… A must-see for all Jewish and American history buffs.” – San Diego Jewish World
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Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds
Revised with New Chapters & Includes The Yiddish Cinema DVD | Details
J. Hoberman's Definitive History of Yiddish Cinema is Back in Print! |
 
 
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Breaking Home Ties (1922 Silent Feature Film)
Restored from the only surviving print!
Singing in the Dark (1956 American Drama)
"In this post-Holocaust variation on The Jazz Singer, Moishe Oysher plays a German cantor who loses his family and his memory during the war." -J. Hoberman
Bar Mitzvah (1935 Yiddish Feature Film)
A shund sensation starring Boris Thomashefsky with "lightning bolts of cinematic revelation!" -The New Yorker |
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NCJF
archive films in permanent exhibition of two new museums
National
Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia
Yiddle
Home Movies
Ben Gurion
Eddie Cantor
Soviet
Jewry Rally (Pictured at top left)
Illinois
Holocaust Museum, Skokie
The Führer Gives
a City to the Jews
(Pictured at bottom left)
Warsaw Ghetto
Jewish
life in Pre-War Bialystok, Vilna, Warsaw, Kurow, Gombin, Novogrodek,
Horodok, and the Carpathian Mountains |
 
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Ronny Loewy (1946- Aug 9, 2012), archivist and historian.
Maurice Sendak ( June 10, 1928 - May 8, 2012), beloved children's book artist.
Tamara Brooks (19 May 2012), artist, musician, conductor, and musician.
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More
than 250 Restored Classics & New Films Available on DVD! | TITLES ON DVD |
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