Dan Buffa, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published October 13, 2022
“What if I told you that your family was murdered for no reason at all? Now, ask yourself, what would you do?”
This heart-piercing question opens the Holocaust revenge drama “Plan A,” which is based on a true story.
That special brand...
CATE MARQUIS, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published March 2, 2022
One of the highlights of this year's St. Louis Jewish Film Festival is “Neighbours” (“Nachbarn”), a Swiss film set in Syria 40 years ago, in a small village where Kurdish and Jewish families are neighbors. Actually, at this point, there is only one Jewish family left in the village, a change due to the increasingly hostile policies of the ruling Baathist party.
CATE MARQUIS, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published March 2, 2022
Joyful is a good word for Bernadette Wegenstein’s delightful, inspiring biographical documentary “The Conductor,” about Marin Alsop, the first woman conductor of a major American orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. It is still an exceedingly...
CATE MARQUIS, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 28, 2022
Mel Brooks, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Colin Powell, Carl Reiner and Elliot Gould were all fans of the Automat, the iconic automated cafeterias that dominated New York and Philadelphia in the first half of the 20th century.
Lisa Hurwitz's delightful, enlightening...
CATE MARQUIS, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 22, 2022
In the delightfully funny Israeli comedy "Greener Pastures," a retiree named Dov (Shlomo Bar-Aba) feels like he has been put out to pasture, and not a greener one. The widower grandpa in his 70s is dismayed that his daughter, who lives out of town, has...
Cate Marquis, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published February 21, 2022
The annual St. Louis Jewish Film Festival shifts to a new season, returning March 6 -13 with an exciting lineup of films, including documentaries on an array of subjects plus comedy and drama narrative films.
The 27th annual festival, which will be...
