Theater, Movies and Television
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Item Open Access 12 Angry Men(Metro Goldwyn Mayer, 1957) Lumet, SidneyOne of Sidney Lumet's most critically-acclaimed films, 12 Angry Men is about twelve members of a jury who are deciding the guilt or innocence of a defendant. A guilty verdict would result in a death sentence. Eleven jurors vote to convict, while one juror, believing in the defendant's innocence, withstands intense pressure form the other jurors and refuses to agree to a guilty verdict. This film was downloaded from the Internet Archive. Click on the icon to watch the film.Item Metadata only Academy Museum to Highlight Hollywood’s Jewish History After All(The New York Times, 2024-04-11) Pogrebin, RobinA New York Times article about The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, which had received considerable criticism for ignoring the critical role of Jews in developing the film industry in Hollywood. The Academy Museum announced the opening of a permanent exhibition, called "Hollywoodland," that will focus on Jewish contributions to the film industry. Jewish filmmakers, according to the Museum's news release about the exhibition, "Jewish filmmakers whose establishment of the American film studio system transformed Los Angeles into a global epicenter of cinema.” Click on the link to read the article.Item Metadata only Alan Arkin, Jewish actor with uncommon versatility, dies at 89: The son of Ukrainian and German Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn won an Oscar in 2007(The Forward, 2023-06-30) Silow-Carroll, AndrewThis article discusses the nearly seven-decade career of actor, Alan Arkin, who died in June 2023. The article emphasizes Arkin's versatility and the wide range and variety of the roles he played. Click on the link to read the article.Item Open Access Animal Crackers(Paramount Pictures, 1930) Kaufman, George S.The Marx Brothers famous comedic movie, Animal Crackers, downloaded from the Internet Archive. Click on the icon to watch the movie.Item Metadata only Arthur Miller(The Guardian, 2005-02-12) Ratcliffe, MichaelAn obituary of Arthur Miller in The Guardian. Click on the link above to access.Item Metadata only At ‘The Fabelmans’ premiere, Steven Spielberg discusses how his Jewish identity is portrayed in the autobiographical film(Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), 2022-09-12) Fear, DavidAt the premiere of Steven Spiellberg's semi-autobiographical film, "The Fabelmans" (co-written with Tony Kushner) at the Toronto Film Festival, Spieilberg discusses his Jewishness and the experience of living in distinctly non-Jewish environments. "The Fablemans" is widely considered to be the most personal of his films. Click on the link to read the article.Item Metadata only Barbara Jill Walters: September 25, 1931–December 30, 2022(Jewish Women's Archive, 2023-01-06) Thompson, KathleenBarbara Walters was an iconic and groundbreaking journalist and celebrity interviewer. Her television career began on NBC, but she was later "poached" by ABC at the famously high salary of $1 million, back in 1976, to be the co-anchor on the ABC Evening News. She experienced a great deal of resentment from her co-anchor, Harry Reasoner. She described that first year as "... very painful. Definitely the worst year of my life.” She was no longer an anchor, but she produced her own television specials, where she found enormous success as an interviewr. Her gravitas in this area was established by her interviewing people such as Golda Meir, Robert Kennedy, and Coretta Scott King. She also interviewed presidential candidates and helped to cover nominating conventions. Click on the link to read the article.Item Metadata only A Brief History of the Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theater(Yiddish Book Center, 2011-12-15) Gonshor, Aron; Israel, SaraInterview with Aron Gonshor, an actor in Dora Wasserman's Yiddish Theater group.. Gonshor recounts the history of this theater group. It is part of a longer interview with Gonshor conducted by Sara Israel at the Jewish Public Library in Montreal. Click on the link above to watch at video recording of the interview.Item Metadata only Carl Reiner obituary: American screenwriter, director and actor who created TV’s The Dick Van Dyke Show(The Guardian, 2020-06-30) Bergan, RonalsAn obituary of Carl Reiner, who died at the age of 98. The article discusses Reiner's long career, beginning with his role as a writer and performer on the popular comedy series, "Your Show of Shows," starring Sid Ceasar and Imogene Coca, before moving on to creating, writing and acting in the very popular TV series, "The Dick Van Dyke Show," starring Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore. What followed was a long career in film as writer actor and director. Click on the link to read the article.Item Open Access Cartooning America: The Fleischer Brothers Story(National Endowment for the Humanities, 1999) Dietz, Kathryn PierceIt is unusual for us to include a grant proposal in this catalog and repository, but in this case we thought it appropriate. It includes a detailed discussion of the lives and accomplishments of the Fleischer brothers, a Jewish American "family of artists and and inventors who revolutionized animation and and most irreverent cartoon characters of all times." The brothers created the cartoon characters of Superman, Popeye and Betty Boop. Click on the icon below to access the pdf of this fascinating story. Click on the top See Also for a link to the movie. The other link is to a discussion of Betty Boop.Item Metadata only The Children's Hour(YouTube, 1961) Hellman, Lillian"The Children's Hour is a 1934 American play by Lillian Hellman. It is a drama set in an all-girls boarding school run by two women, Karen Wright and Martha Dobie. An angry student, Mary Tilford, runs away from the school and to avoid being sent back she tells her grandmother that the two headmistresses are having a lesbian affair. This YouTube video is to the movie released in 1961 starring Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine Click on the link above to watch the movie.Item Metadata only The Coen Brothers: American Filmakers(Encyclopedia Britanica, 2018-07-12) Editors of Encylopedia BritannicaEncyclopedia Britannica article with a biography and brief discussion of the films created by the Coen Brothers. Click on the link to read the article.Item Metadata only A Comic in Search of the Discomfort Zone(New York Times, 2005-11-11) Scott, A.O.New York Times film reviewer, A.O. Scott reviews the film, "Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic." He sees her humor as an attempt to be a transgressive way of taking on taboo topics, and argues that her "mocking political correctness has become a form of political correctness in its own right" and is, moreover, self-congratulatory flattery both for herself and her audience." In 2021 Scott and Silverman revisit his review and her film in conversation about both. Click on the link above to see Scott's review and click on the link below to see the 2021 reexamination of this review.Item Metadata only A Conversation With Lillian Hellman: A still unfinished woman(Rolling Stone, 1977-02-24) Doudna, Christine; Hellman, LillianAn interview with the groundbreaking playwright, Lillian Hellman. Click on the link above to access.Item Open Access The Crucible(Viking, 1954) Miller, ArthurThe complete text of Arthur Miller's play The Crucible. Retrieved from the Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/crucible00mill_1) and digitized by the University of Alberta Libraries. Both the pdf and epub versions are included here. Click on the appropriate icon to access the play.Item Metadata only The Crucible(Youtube, 2021-4-1) Miller, ArthurA 1996 film version of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder and Paul Scofield. Click on the link above to watch the movie.Item Metadata only ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Made Something Out of Nothing(The New York Times, 2024-02-02) Poniewozik, JamesA column about the final season of the long-running HBO television series, "Curb Your Enthusiasm," created by and starring Larry David playing a character named Larry David. The article notes that David, the character, is more overtly Jewish than he had been in previous seasons, and alludes to the character's complex relationship between his Jewishness and the political world. Click on the link to read the article.Item Metadata only David Cronenberg: It’s as if my old movies don’t exist(Salon, 2011-12-03) O'Hehir, AndrewAn interview with the Jewish Canadian director David Cronenberg. Click on the link above to access.Item Metadata only David Mamet: American Author(Encylopedia Britannica, 2020-03-29) The Editors of the Encyclopedia BritannicaThis article from the Encyclopedia Britannica discusses David Mamet and his wide-ranging career. Although he is best known as a prolific American playwright. Mamet is also a successful film screenwriter and director. He is known for using rhythmic, colloquial, sometimes profane language in his dialog. He won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1984 for the play "Glengarry Glen Ross," produced in 1983, a film version of which appeared in 1994. Click on the link to read the article.Item Metadata only David Mamet: Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal’(Village Voice, 2008-03-11) Mamet, DavidIn this column in the Village Voice, David Mamet takes his play, "November," as a point of departure to discuss the major changes in his political outlook. Asserting that this play is indeed about politics, Mamet discusses how his views have changed from those of a decades-long committed liberal to a more conservative position with respect to such issues as the function of government, American culture, and the role of the military and of the United States in the international arena. Click on the link to read the article.