Cinema
Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual?
Redland Green Bowling Club Redland Green Road, RedlandPLEASE NOTE THIS TALK HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED TO AVOID RISK OF COVID-19 (CORONA VIRUS) INFECTION Stanley Kubrick is widely acknowledged as one of the world's great directors. Yet few critics or scholars have considered how he emerged from a unique and vibrant cultural milieu: the New York Jewish intelligentsia. Nathan Abrams reexamines the director's … Continue reading Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual?
Finding 100 Faces: capturing Jewish diversity
Virtual streamedIn early 2018, composer and film maker Benjamin Till, who had only recently discovered he was Jewish, decided to make the film 100 Faces to find out more about the community he’d been a member of for 43 years without realising. His mission was to find one UK-based Jewish person born every year from 1918 … Continue reading Finding 100 Faces: capturing Jewish diversity
A Call to Spy
Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United KingdomA Call to Spy is an historical drama inspired by the true stories of women recruited into England’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. Desperate for new recruits, the SOE, created in 1940 after the fall of France and before the US joined the war, decided to train women as spies as it … Continue reading A Call to Spy
Everything is Illuminated
Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United KingdomUSA 2005, 104 mins, English, Russian, Ukrainian Director Liev Schreiber, featuring Elijah Wood, Eugene Hütz This American biographical comedy was adapted from Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel of the same name. Jonathan Safran Foer, a young American Jew, goes on a quest to find the woman, Augustine, who saved his grandfather, Safran Foer, during the Holocaust in a small Ukrainian town … Continue reading Everything is Illuminated
Radio Days
Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United KingdomDirector Woody Allen, featuring Diane Keaton, Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels Radio Days is an American comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen, who also narrates. The film looks back on an American family's life during the Golden Age of Radio using both music and memories to tell the story. It stars an ensemble cast. The film's soundtrack, which features songs from … Continue reading Radio Days
Shiva Baby
Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United KingdomClick here for film trailer Based on Seligman’s short story of the same name, Shiva Baby follows college student Danielle as she is faced with a series of awkward encounters at a day-long shiva, a Jewish gathering during a time of mourning. Amongst overbearing relatives, she is rattled by the appearance of an ex-girlfriend and … Continue reading Shiva Baby
Perfect Strangers
Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United KingdomClick here for film trailer Seven lifelong friends – three couples and a newly divorced man – meet for dinner on the night of a rare lunar eclipse. In order to spice things up, they decide to play a game: every text message received is read out loud, and every incoming call answered on speaker. … Continue reading Perfect Strangers
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