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Posts Tagged "Jewish"
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Defiance **** (2008, Daniel Craig, Jamie Bell, Liev Schreiber, Asael Bielski, George MacKay) – Classic Movie Review 4343
Daniel Craig takes a rest from 007 to play one of three Jewish brothers who flee Nazi-occupied Poland and take refuge in the Belarussian forest. There they join Russian resistance fighters and build shelters to […]
Next Stop, Greenwich Village **** (1976, Lenny Baker, Shelley Winters, Ellen Greene, Lois Smith, Christopher Walken, Lou Jacobi, Mike Kellin) – Classic Movie Review 4028
In a semi-autobiographical 1976 film story about the struggles of an aspiring Jewish actor in the Fifties, writer-director Paul Mazursky manages much charming, witty nostalgia, and creates lots of fascinating, memorable characters. It is entertaining, […]
Fanny and Alexander [Fanny och Alexander] ***** (1982, Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin, Ewa Fröling, Kristina Adolphson, Allan Edwall) – Classic Movie Review 3934
Writer-director director Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) retired from cinema film-making after this stupendous, four Oscar-winning 1982 swansong to the movies. It is a beautiful, endlessly rewarding, masterly and sumptuous family saga, full of telling references to both his […]
Leon the Pig Farmer *** (1992, Mark Frankel, Brian Glover, Janet Suzman, Connie Booth, David de Keyser) – Classic Movie Review 3790
Vadim Jean and Gary Sinyor’s exuberant, lively and inventive if raw and raggedy début film is loaded with good actors and irreverent Jewish stereotype humour. It won the FIPRESCI International Critics’ Prize at the Venice Film […]
The Pawnbroker ***** (1964, Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters, Jaime Sanchez) – Classic Movie Review 3470
Rod Steiger said: ‘You think Run of the Arrow is my best film? Haven’t you seen The Pawnbroker?’ Rod Steiger boasts a towering, Oscar-nominated performance as Sol Nazerman, the Jewish pawnbroker in Harlem tormented by […]
Les Misérables **** (1995, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Annie Girardot, Philippe Léotard, Jean Marais, Michel Boujenah) – Classic Movie Review 3149
Jean-Paul Belmondo gives the performance of a lifetime as the hounded hero Jean Valjean in a hugely moving, beautifully crafted and enjoyable 1995 French reworking of the Victor Hugo tale of social injustice and despair. […]
The Night Before *** (2015, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anthony Mackie, Jillian Bell, Michael Shannon, Lizzy Caplan, Mindy Kaling) – Movie Review
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anthony Mackie star as boyhood friends Ethan, Isaac and Chris, who decide their this year’s Christmas Eve annual reunion night of debauchery and hilarity is to be their last. Well, look, they’re 30 […]