Arts & Culture | Film

Two States For Two People?

05/14/2013 | George Robinson | Special To The Jewish Week | Film

The cover of the latest issue of Moment Magazine asks, “Is the Two-State Solution Dead?” Israeli documentarian Dan Setton approaches the same question in his new film “State 194,” opening on May 17, with a sober, somber tread befitting the slow-motion train wreck that Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations have become.

Looking For Luck, And Love

05/06/2013 | George Robinson | Special To The Jewish Week | Film

Daniel Burman’s latest film, “All In,” has been making its way around the Jewish film festival circuit since its release last year in Argentina but has yet to find an American distributor.

Teeth Marks

04/23/2013 | George Robinson | Special To The Jewish Week | Film

When “Rabies,” the debut feature film of co-directors Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado, played the Tribeca Film Festival two years ago, it marked a rare excursion into an action genre film for the Israeli film industry.

Documenting The Absence

04/16/2013 | George Robinson | Special To The Jewish Week | Film

In 1996, Marian Marzynski wrote and directed a remarkable documentary, “Shtetl,” a three-hour-long film about his visit with a close American friend to the Polish village in which the friend’s parents were born.

Sex And The 16-Year-Old

04/16/2013 | George Robinson | Special to the Jewish Week | Film

This year’s Tribeca Film Festival includes three new films from Israel, a continuation, one hopes of the Israeli cinema’s gold rush of quality filmmaking.

From Radical To Nebbish

04/10/2013 | George Robinson | Special To The Jewish Week | Film

Two new films opening this weekend at the Quad Cinema offer riffs on classic clichés of 20th-century Jewish-American masculinity: the radical firebrand and the nebbish. Unsurprisingly, it’s the rabble-rouser who merits our attention, but the nebbish is given a sufficiently unusual to be interesting too.