ATLANTA JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2009

 

 

FILM REVIEWS

  • BART GOT A ROOM

"Part lovable, charming heart-warmer, part screwball comedy this movie is fresh and funny with very real, quirky, but deftly delivered performances.  It's just a fun film.  Or as the writer/director himself describes it, think of it as "John Hughes with a Woody Allen flair."

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DEATH IN LOVE

" The dialogue is darkly humorous and cynical, with views on men, women, and love that are warped and in some cases downright wrong.  It almost reads like a stage play but the electric editing and graphic imagery keep it from falling into the stilted and mundane.  This, coupled with each secret from the past as it is slowly revealed make for a thrilling, disturbing, engrossing movie.  "

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BAGHDAD TWISH- IN SEARCH OF THE BENE ISRAEL

" A poignant tale of another once thriving Jewish community in another country, this film gives us a snapshot of Iraq's Jewish society told through the history of one family and their photos, archival footage, and super 8 home movies tied together by the voice of the filmmaker Joe Balass's mother Valentine Balass who narrates ..."

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THE CASE FOR ISRAEL- DEMOCRACY'S OUTPOST

" I was excited to see this piece, particularly with a professor from Harvard Law School, where I attended, at the helm.  However, I have to say this would have been far more interesting if it were more objective."

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EMPTY NEST

" This film lost me pretty quickly.  I've seen this movie about a dozen times recently under different names.  Plus starting right off watching an old man ignore his still beautiful wife right in front of him (who by the way gave up her career ..."

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DIAMOND ROAD

"Martin Rappaport, a Jewish former diamond trader turned industry activist after a life-changing trip to an amputee camp filled with children, was the first to publish a fair price list for diamonds lifting years of self-imposed secrecy within the market."

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MORE FILMS

     THE GIFT TO STALINREAD MORE

     GOOD                        READ MORE

     HELLO, GOODBYE      READ MORE

     HEY, HEY ITS ESTHER BLUEBERGREAD MORE

     HOLY LAND HARDBALL               READ MORE

     LEMON TREE                   READ MORE

     THE LITTLE TRAITOR READ MORE

     LOVE COMES LATELYREAD MORE

     MY FIRST WAR             READ MORE

MORE FILMS

     RUN FOR YOUR LIVE READ MORE

     SECRET                        READ MORE

     THE SECRETS                     READ MORE

     SHARON                            READ MORE

     SKIN                             READ MORE

     SONS OF SANKIN UNITED             READ MORE

     STRANGERS                 READ MORE

     THE WAVE                    READ MORE

    WE WERE EXODUS        READ MORE

    WIL EISNER-PORTAIT OF A SEQUENTIAL ARTIST                                                                            READ MORE

 

 

 

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