Thanks to Manhattan’s favorite cultural philanthropist, Carole Zabar -- you know her rugelach -- a second year of the Israel Film Center Festival will be unspooling at various venues around the city, but mainly at The Jewish Community Center on the Upper West Side from June 12th through June 19th.
A highlight of the fest is Yael Reuveny’s engrossing three-generation exploration of her family’s post-Holocaust existence, Farewell, Herr Schwarz, a paean to those trying to come to terms with the past.
Michla Schwarz, Yael’s grandmother, was the lone member of her family to survive the Holocaust, or so she thought. Immigrating to Israel, she married, raised a family, and died emotionally scarred with an unyielding hatred for everything German. Her daughter Etty, who remembered her mother screaming at night and being emotionally distant, is also enveloped in this decades-old enmity.
But one day just before Michla’s death,...
A highlight of the fest is Yael Reuveny’s engrossing three-generation exploration of her family’s post-Holocaust existence, Farewell, Herr Schwarz, a paean to those trying to come to terms with the past.
Michla Schwarz, Yael’s grandmother, was the lone member of her family to survive the Holocaust, or so she thought. Immigrating to Israel, she married, raised a family, and died emotionally scarred with an unyielding hatred for everything German. Her daughter Etty, who remembered her mother screaming at night and being emotionally distant, is also enveloped in this decades-old enmity.
But one day just before Michla’s death,...
- 6/11/2014
- by Brandon Judell
- www.culturecatch.com
Right off the bat, the easiest way to describe ‘Eagles’ is as an Israeli ‘Red’ that’s a lot less colorful, a lot more bleak, but about on the same level of humor (whether it be intentional or not). And believe it or not, the two main characters, Efraim (Yossi Polak) and Moshka (Yehoram Gaon) make the aforementioned comic book film’s cast look like spring chickens — so, young. Perhaps if I had had time to read a synopsis of the film before going in, I wouldn’t have been as thrown off by the directional shift that the film experiences as it progresses, but in my ignorance, surprise came.
Efraim and his old buddy, Moshka are a couple of retired military men… super retired. No one has ever been this retired. They are in such a retired state that they are nearing rebirth. These guys are late-70s if they’re a day old.
Efraim and his old buddy, Moshka are a couple of retired military men… super retired. No one has ever been this retired. They are in such a retired state that they are nearing rebirth. These guys are late-70s if they’re a day old.
- 9/15/2012
- by Andrew-Patrick Weymes
- LRMonline.com
Mivtsa Yonatan / Operation Thunderbolt (1977) Direction: Menahem Golan Cast: Klaus Kinski, Yehoram Gaon, Sybil Danning, Assaf Dayan, Gila Almagor, Assaf Dayan, Mark Heath Screenplay: Menahem Golan and Clarke Reynolds Oscar Movies Klaus Kinski toting a machine gun, Sybil Danning sporting owl-like sunglasses, Operation Thunderbolt The Good, The Bad, And The Unfashionable Despite the complex and gripping real-life basis for Mivtsa Yonatan / Operation Thunderbolt — the 1976 hijacking of a Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris Air France flight — director-co-producer-co-scenarist Menahem Golan managed to make a film utterly devoid of suspense, depth, or intelligence. With its cheap look (despite full cooperation from the Israeli armed forces), subpar craftsmanship, and one-dimensional characters, Operation Thunderbolt is nothing more than your below-average 1970s movie-of-the-week. In fact, Operation Thunderbolt is so mediocre that it earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. The fateful story, also told in the 1976 Us-made television movies Raid on Entebbe [...]...
- 2/5/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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