Click Here to Read: The Forgotten Holocaust: The Films of Boris Maftsir: An Israeli filmmaker works to revive the neglected, terrible history of Shoah victims in the Soviet Union By Izabella Tabarovsky on the Tablet Website on January 27, 2016.
Category: Movies
The Holocaust for Communists
Click Here to Read: The Holocaust for Communists: The East German-Bulgarian Holocaust movie ‘Sterne,’ screening this weekend at the New York Jewish Film Festival, is one of a group of visceral films made in Communist countries by or with people who survived the war By J. Hoberman on the Tablet website on January 18, 2017.
Method actor, philanderer, oddball: who was the real Marlon Brando
A Psychoanalysis of Jay Gatsby (The Great Gatsby)
The Limits of Forgiveness
Click Here to Read: The Limits of Forgiveness by Francine Prose in The New York Review of Books on December 15, 2016.
Click Here to Read: Manchester by the Sea: The suffering of an ordinary man By Joanne Laurier on the World Socialist Web Site on December 10, 2016.
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Casey Affleck as Lee Chandler in Kenneth Longren’s Manchester by the Sea, 2016
Psychoanalyzing filmmaking duo’s ‘Seduction Theory’
Trauma and Resilience in “Creed”
by Herbert H. Stein
For the spring issue of the PANY Bulletin, I wrote about the new Star Wars movie, emphasizing the very obvious attempt at nostalgic appeal. As it happens, the newest installment of the Rocky series of movies, Creed, appeared about a month earlier. Continue reading Trauma and Resilience in “Creed”
A Day in the Life of Zen Monk Leonard Cohen
The Cinematic Traumas of Kenneth Lonergan
‘None Shall Escape,’ Hollywood’s First Holocaust Film
Click Here to Read: ‘None Shall Escape,’ Hollywood’s First Holocaust Film, Was All But Unknown for 70 Years. Now It’s Been Rediscovered. The 99-year-old actress who played the tragic heroine recalls the bravery and foresight of the screenwriters and producers of an unflinching, prescient B-movie Nazi noir, now deservedly back in circulation in a new 35mm print By Thomas Doherty on the Tablet Website on November 1, 2016.