2010 Film Festival
Documentary pays tribute to unlikely media pioneer
2010 Film Festival: Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg! Director to attend screening at The Greene Review by Ron Kaplan, New Jersey Jewish News Gertrude Berg wrote more than 12,000 scripts during her career Before there was Lucille Ball, before there was Oprah, Gertrude Berg was the foremost female media personality in America.
Lemon Tree yields bruising fable
Lemon Tree review, 2010 Film Festival Review by Michael Fox, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Hiam Abbass in Lemon Tree Israeli director Eran Riklis’ complex, compassionate and deeply sobering Lemon Tree leaves moviegoers with a plethora of themes to talk and think about, but let’s single one out in
Spilling Secrets in an Israeli all-girls yeshiva
2010 Film Festival: Secrets review Review By Michael Fox, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Scene from The Secrets Veteran Israeli director Avi Nesher is an uncommonly ambitious and fearless filmmaker. His latest film, The Secrets, calmly broaches as many taboos as it can. A gripping and occasionally melodramatic argument
Passion for Judaism fuels Peruvian Fire Within
2010 Film Festival: Fire Within review Review by Michael Fox, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer From The Fire Within Thanks to a number of documentaries in recent years that now comprise their own sub-genre, we’re no longer surprised to hear about tiny pockets of observant Jews in out-of-the-way corners