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Boston Jewish Film Festival

Film Feature: “The Rabbi Goes West” — Not Your Typical Gefilte Fish Out of Water Story

The turf war for the bodies and souls of Montana’s Jews makes for an engaging inter-tribal drama.

By: Jason M. Rubin Filed Under: Featured, Film, Preview Tagged: Amy Geller, anti-Semitism, Boston Jewish Film Festival, Chaim Bruk, Gerald Peary, mezuzah, The Rabbi Goes West

Film Reviews: Boston Jewish Film Festival –Two Looks at Jewish-American Comedy

Reviews of a trio of films at the Boston Jewish Film Festival.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Betsy Sherman, Boston Jewish Film Festival, Ferne Pearlstein, Gregory Monro, Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown, The Last Laugh, The Man Who Shot Hollywood

Film Review: “Once in a Lifetime” and “Meet the Hitlers” at the Boston Jewish Film Festival

Two films in the Boston Jewish Film Festival: one sticks to the commonplace, the other looks at the bizarre.

By: Paul Dervis Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Boston Jewish Film Festival, Jewish film, Marie-Castille Schaar, Matthew Ogens, Meet the Hitlers, Once in a Lifetime, Paul Dervis

Fuse Film Review: Boston Jewish Film Festival — A Powerful “Bulgarian Rhapsody”

The history lesson embedded in Bulgarian Rhapsody is subtle yet also packs a wallop.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Boston Jewish Film Festival, Bulgarian Rhapsody, Ivan Nitchev, Jeruzalem, Jewish, Paul Dervis, Paz brothers

Fuse Film Review: At the Boston Film Festival—A Delicious “Dough”

Dough contains plenty of tasty charm and passion.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Boston Jewish Film Festival, Breakfast at Ina's, documentary, Dough, Jonathan Pryce, Paul Dervis

Film Review: “The Last White Knight” — A Vision of Racism Perpetuated

In the mesmerizing “The Last White Knight,” documentary filmmaker Paul Saltzman chronicles a five-year dialogue with the man who assaulted him during the civil rights movement.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: Boston Jewish Film Festival, civil rights, documentary, Paul Saltzman, The Last White Knight

Fuse Film Review: Two at BJFF — “We Are Not Alone” and “In Case I Don’t Win the Golden Palm”

It can be a long wait for the end of the world, even though it lies only a week away, to wit, from the beginning to the end of the Israeli film “We Are Not Alone.”

By: Joann Green Breuer Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: Boston Jewish Film Festival, In Case I Don't Win the Golden Palm, We Are Not Alone

Movie Review: “Female Helmers” — A Terrific Evening of Shorts

Each film demonstrates a distinct female sensibility as well as a strong and unique stylistic vision.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: BJFF, Boston Jewish Film Festival, Catherine the Great, Female Helmers, Of Birds and Boundaries, Sister of Mine, Surf and Turf

Coming Attractions in Film: November 2012

School is in full session, family holidays are looming, a nail biting election is imminent (or past), but films are up to the challenge, whether you are looking for art or escape. The Boston Jewish Film Festival brings 45 films to 10 Boston area locations, B.U.and UMass host free film screenings with filmmaker talk backs, Harvard offers a classy horror flick, the ICA has commercials, and there are shorts galore.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Film Tagged: An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, Andrzej Zulawski's Possession, B.U. Cinematheqùe Screenings, Black Maria Film Shorts Festival, Boston Jewish Film Festival, Ciné-Concert – Georges Méliès, Code of the West, he British Arrows: The Best British Commercials of 2012, Poster Girl, Rebecca Richman Cohen, The Cinemagician, UMass Film Series

Coming Attractions in Film: May 2012

After catching your breath from a heavy dose of April film festivals, you may think you need a rest! While this month’s Boston area offerings may look tidy in number, they are sprawling in scope. April provided a look at what’s coming and current, but May is steeped in history and alternative cinema.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Film Tagged: ¡Qué Viva Eisenstein, Arts Emerson, BFF, Boston Jewish Film Festival, Festival Focus 2012, HFA, MFA, Piccadilly, Sheldon Mirowitz, Sounds of the Silents, The 28th annual Boston LGBT Film Festival, The Story of Film: An Odyssey

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