Israel’s Minister of Culture Miri Regev caused a stir among some publications and Netizens when she wore an A-line dress at the film festival that featured the skyline of Jerusalem. It was...
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Caan Film Fest? Eisenberg to Star as Marcel Marceau
With apologies for my title to this week’s CANNES FILM FESTIVAL in France and The Museum of The Moving Image’s James CAAN FILM FEST in Astoria/Queens, NY, … news arrives that actor...
JewliciousReels: Cannes Award Goes to Israeli Film(s)
An Israeli graduate of the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem received the top student film award at Cannes last week. Or Sinai won first place for her short film, ANNA. She was one...
JewliciousReels: Son of Saul Crowned King at Cannes
The buzz at Cannes this week is about SON OF SAUL, a dark Hungarian film set at Auschwitz-Birkenau, that critics say is unlike any other Holocaust themed film in its approach to the subject. It has...
Natalie Portman’s Directorial Debut at Cannes
It’s been wall to wall Natalie Portman this week. After being mostly out of the spotlight after her Oscar for Black Swan in 2011, she is suddenly everywhere. Portman is set to be the latest...
Israeli Film Wins at Cannes
A farce about the rivalry between an angry father and a gregarious son, both of whom are Talmud scholars, but which confronts serious issues, has won at the 64th Annual Cannes Film Festival for the...