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New York Jewish Film Festival 2017 Review: ‘Shalom Rabin’ Directed by Amos Gitai
Some monumental individuals have sacrificed their lives for peace; Yitzkhak Rabin is one of them.
Read More »DOC NYC Film Review: ‘The Sunshine Makers’
The songs "Walking on Sunshine" and "Sunny" are code. For what?
Read More »Gloria Steinem and Director Nanfu Wang at ‘Hooligan Sparrow’ Screening and Q and A
This film is of incalculable worth because it documents on-the-ground, the live footage of the subterranean life in China in one of the most repressive stages of its modern history since the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘A Good American’ – Whistle-blowers and the NSA
Before there was Edward Snowden, there was Thomas Drake, William Binney, Ed Loomis, J. Kirk Wiebe, and Diane Roark.
Read More »Interview: Director Lydia Tenaglia of Anthony Bourdain Produced ‘Jeremiah Tower: The Last Maganifcent’
I wanted to walk a line. It was a very hard and careful line to walk. I think we achieved it in the film.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: Adam Sandler Gets the Criterion Treatment ‘Punch-Drunk Love’
'Punch-Drunk Love' may be too mainstream for hardcore P.T. Anderson fans and too artsy fartsy for Sandler fans, but the film is as irresistible as ever.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: ‘Morris from America’- One of the Best Films I Didn’t See at Sundance
Give "Morris from America" a chance and find yourself as smitten with the film as Morris is with Katrin.
Read More »SXSW Movie Review: ‘We Are X,’ Starring X Japan
"We Are X" - Are there curses destined to repeat in our lives? When is enough enough?
Read More »Family Film Festival: More Than Just Movies
Unlike most film festivals which are mostly adult affairs, IFFF devotes an entire day and an awards ceremony to young filmmakers.
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