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The 22nd annual San Diego Jewish Film Festival, sponsored by the Leichtag Foundation, will run Feb. 9 – 19. The Festival is presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus.
All I wanted to know was what she learned from Prof. Scorsese’s tutelage on “The Departed.” (“What didn’t I learn?” came her wise reply.) After time spent devoted to worshipping him, the conversation shifted to another favorite, Oana the ditzy hooker in “Breaking and Entering.”
Movies such as Yoav Potash’s “Crime After Crime” are infuriating in so many ways. What this film has to say about the American justice system will make you want to move to Canada. Had I seen this story—about a woman who spends her life in prison because she tried to break free from an abusive boyfriend in a theatre—I would have ripped the seat in front of me to shreds.
On Saturday night, fans of repertory cinema in San Diego (both of you) had a chance to satisfy cravings for vintage celluloid with 35mm screenings of “The Maltese Falcon” and “Ghost World,” for which lead actor Thora Birch appeared in person
With its virtually non-existent budget, “Another Earth” is a science-fiction flick that doesn’t fit the Hollywood blockbuster mold. When was the last time you saw a fantasy that stuck to its own set of rules and contained only two special effects? For once the Sundance Film Festival got it right by awarding the film this year’s Special Jury Prize.
Jeff Lipsky helped to market John Cassavetes’ “A Woman Under the Influence,” the first independent film to receive national distribution, and he hasn’t looked back since. A pioneer in the American independent film movement, Lipsky worked as General Sales Manager of New Yorker Films before co-founding distribution companies, October Films and Lot
Mike Mills’ first feature, “Thumbsucker” (2005), is a double threat, an intelligent teen comedy along the lines of “Igby Goes Down” and “Easy A.” It’s also the only anti-drug film since “Drugstore Cowboy” that has something, other than “Just Say No,” to say: You know the old adage that pot leads to harder drugs? Mills argues that thumb sucking leads to psychotropic drugs, which put you on the road to reefer
Banker’s Hill resident JT Bruce has written and directed a short film that is sublimely unreal and makes you think seriously about what would happen if the world around us literally crumbled.
Chart-topping Australian pop-singer Sophie Monk likes the anonymity the United States affords her. The chanteuse, turned model turned actress can’t walk through the streets of her home town down under without being swamped by adoring fans, but in SoCal the perfect blonde strolls through the mall virtually incognito.
The arrival of a new Woody Allen film used to be a cause for celebration, until somewhere around the release of “Crimes and Misdemeanors,” when the prolific Mr. Allen began spreading himself thin. He’s consistently averaged a film a year since first becoming a director in 1969, but over the past two decades ideas that once seemed fresh slowly grew stale, largely because instead of growing as a visual artist, Woody’s dependence on cinematographers tended toward foreign imports who come with lower price tags than seasoned pros