BY CATE MARQUIS, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published November 7, 2019
Just as fall brings a dazzling display of foliage to St. Louis, the annual St. Louis International Film Festival delivers its own colorful collection of cinema from around the world. This year’s festival, which takes place Nov. 7-17, features four...
BY CATE MARQUIS, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published January 24, 2019
Who Will Write Our History - Teaser from Katahdin Productions on Vimeo.“Who Will Write Our History” is the question that plagued Jewish-Polish historian Emanuel Ringelblum as the Nazis were sealing up Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. Ringelblum worried...
BY CATE MARQUIS, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published May 31, 2018
Abraham Bursztein (Miguel Ángel Solá) is clearly feeling bossed around by his children in the Buenos Aires home he’s lived in for 50 years. The Polish-born retired tailor is miffed when his favorite great-granddaughter, Micaela (Pilar Alegre Alonso)...
BY CATE MARQUIS, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published May 31, 2018
All of the hallmarks are there: classic noir style, soulful jazz, world-weary voice-over, and slanting light and city street. But this is not New York or San Francisco. It is Budapest in 1936, a “city of lights for some and city of darkness for others,”...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published May 31, 2018
Israeli writer director Eran Riklis builds upon the success of his previous films “The Syrian Bride” and “The Human Resources Manager,” with “Shelter,” based on a short story titled "The Link" by Shulamith Hareven. “Shelter” stars Neta...
BY CATE MARQUIS, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published May 23, 2018
What does a film about Israeli baseball, a biopic about a beautiful, brainy Hollywood movie star, and a Hungarian film noir have in common? They are all playing at this year’s St. Louis Jewish Film Festival. The Jewish Community Center’s 23rd annual...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published September 7, 2016
“The People vs. Fritz Bauer” opens with a short video of the real Fritz Bauer, a kindly looking white-haired old man talking about how German children should be taught all of their country’s history, good and bad. “The People vs. Fritz Bauer”...
Nishmah’s Ilene Joseph Salon Series will screen the St. Louis premiere of the documentary “Eva Hesse,” a film by Marcia Beglieter. The event takes place Wednesday, Sept. 14 at Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema. The evening will begin with a light...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published May 18, 2016
Isaac Bashevis Singer, the Nobel Prize Laureate and acclaimed novelist and short story writer, made no secret of his intense dislike for the 1983 film version of his short story, “Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy.” Singer reportedly tried to get his name removed...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 27, 2016
The warm comedic drama “Dough” stars British actor Jonathan Pryce (“Pirates of the Caribbean”) as an old Orthodox Jewish baker who runs a struggling kosher bakery in a changing London neighborhood and takes on a teenage African boy as an assistant ...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published January 18, 2012
In 1948, the United States government produced a documentary about the Nuremberg war crimes trials to be shown to the German people as part of the de-Nazification effort. But the film, which movingly details the international effort to bring Nazi war...
BY LILY SIWAK, JUNIOR, CLAYTON
• Published November 9, 2011
Every November, St. Louis is home to one of the most celebrated film festivals in America. The St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF) is an annual event that was started in 1992 to present and promote films to advance filmmaking as an art form....
