BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published July 27, 2011
Stories from Rachel Goldman Miller's life - a life filled with much loss but also much love - are coming to a movie theater and a stage here next month. Miller, a native of France born to Polish parents, lost 93 family members in the Holocaust. She lost...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 8, 2011
"The Matchmaker (Once I Was)" is a quirky, magical Israeli film about an unusual matchmaker, told through the eyes of a teenage boy. This crowd-pleaser was the audience favorite at the New York Israeli Film Festival and was selected for the upcoming prestigious...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 1, 2011
The Jewish Community Center's 16th Annual St. Louis Jewish Film Festival, "A Journey in Film: Jewish Life and History from Around the World," will showcase 13 films from around the world (plus a bonus film, "La Rafle," on Aug. 4). The festival will include...
Is Jewish Film Festival an oxymoron? It seems to me that movies are to Jews what Rogers and Hammerstein were to American musical theater. Take, for example, early movie producers like Louis B. Mayer and Carl Laemmle as well as numerous stars like...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 21, 2011
"The Concert" ("Le Concert") is a French-language film, based on a true story, about an aging Russian orchestra conductor whose career was ruined under the old Soviet Union over its anti-Semitic policies. Now he's trying to make a comeback, but under...
