Posts Tagged ‘rabbi’

Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Topol | Crane, Norma | Frey, Leonard | Picon, Molly | Mann, Paul | Harris, Rosalind | Marsh, Michele | Small, Neva | Glaser, Paul Michael | Lovelock, Ray | Edwards, Elaine | Bonstein, Candy | Ruskin, Shimen | Scooler, Zvee | Zorich, Louis
Directors: Jewison, Norman
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Film version of the stage musical, based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem. Tevye the Milkman is a Jewish peasant in pre-Revolutionary Russia, coping with the day-to-day problems of ’shtetl’ life, his Jewish traditions, his family (wife and daughters), and state-sanctioned pogroms.

Keeping Up with the Steins (2006)

Monday, November 10th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Gertz, Jami | Hannah, Daryl | Marshall, Garry | Piven, Jeremy | Roberts, Doris | Sabara, Daryl | Miller, Larry | Hines, Cheryl | Benjamin, Richard | Jefferies, Marc John | Hines, Tom | Jenkins, Carter | Taylor, Sandra | Cosgrove, Miranda | Robertson, Brittany
Directors: Marshall, Scott
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In toney Brentwood, Benjamin Fiedler prepares for his bar mitzvah; trouble is, he understands neither its meaning nor the Hebrew, and his parents (particularly his successful-agent father) are planning the most lavish party possible. Benjamin wants his dad to give him some space, so he gets an idea: to invite his grandfather, who left the family years ago and for whom Benjamin’s dad has an intense dislike, to come two weeks early. Thanks in part to grandpa - and to the immediate family’s love - Benjamin may have a shot at figuring out what it means to be a man.

Keeping the Faith (2000)

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Stiller, Ben | Elfman, Jenna | Bancroft, Anne | Wallach, Eli | Rifkin, Ron | Forman, Milos | Taylor, Holland | Edelstein, Lisa | Sofer, Rena | Leung, Ken | George, Brian | Burns, Catherine Lloyd | Essman, Susie | Blumberg, Stuart
Directors: Norton, Edward
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A love triangle between three friends. Rabbi Jake Schram and Father Brian Finn, two friends, are out to update their religions and draw in more worshipers. With the arrival of Anna Reilly, an old childhood friend of the two, the men’s lives are thrown a curve ball. Anna has become a stunning beauty with a lot of spunk and ambition, and both of them want her. A major road block to Anna for both men is their religion. Jake is up for a head position at his synagogue and taking on a non-Jewish partner is frowned upon, besides the fact that his mother disowned his brother for marrying a non-Jewish woman. Brian has given a vow of celibacy to become a priest.

Human Stain, The (2003)

Friday, February 16th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | USA
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Kidman, Nicole | Harris, Ed | Sinise, Gary | Miller, Wentworth | Barrett, Jacinda | Lennix, Harry J. | Gregg, Clark | Smith, Anna Deavere | Mitchell, Lizan | Washington, Kerry | Newman, Phyllis | Martindale, Margo | Canada, Ron | Avital, Mili
Directors: Benton, Robert
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The Human Stain is the story of Coleman Silk (Hopkins), a classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town. When his affair with a young troubled janitor (Kidman) is uncovered, the secret Silk had harbored for over fifty years from his wife, his children and colleague, writer Nathan Zuckerman, fast explodes in a conflagration of devastating consequences. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk’s secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled.

Take the Money and Run (1969)

Friday, February 16th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Margolin, Janet | Hillaire, Marcel | Hyde, Jacquelyn | Chapman, Lonny | Merlin, Jan | Anderson, James | Beck, Jackson | Storm, Howard | Gordon, Mark | Murphy, Micil | Moskowitz, Minnow | Jacobson, Nate | Bauer, Grace | Leff, Henry
Directors: Allen, Woody
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This film is presented as a documentary on the life of an incompetent, petty criminal called Virgil Starkwell, played by Woody Allen. It describes the early childhood and youth of Virgil, his failure at a musical career, and his obsession with bank robberies. The film uses a voice over narrative and interviews with his family, friends and acquaintances.