Times Square in New York City, 2018. (photo from eveningofwonders.com) Illusionist Vitaly Beckman fooled the famous Las Vegas duo Penn & Teller on his first appearance on Penn & Teller: Fool Us, in Season 3. Now, four years later, he…
Alessandro Gassmann plays a Jewish surgeon whose idyllic kayaking trip – and life – is upended when he hears a car accident on the adjacent roadway. (photo from comingsoon.it) The Vancouver Jewish Film Festival is finally here! Available for streaming until…
Yehuda Barkan and Nitza Shaul co-star in the charming Love in Suspenders. (photo from homemcr.org/film/love-in-suspenders) The Vancouver Jewish Film Festival is set to go online March 4, and all the many offerings will be available until March 14. There are…
Niv Nissim, left, and John Benjamin Hickey co-star in Sublet, one of the Vancouver Jewish Film Festival’s many offerings this year. (photo from facebook.com/subletfilm) The Vancouver Jewish Film Festival will take place exclusively online March 4-14. And, while you might…
A scene from the documentary Martha, in which director Daniel Schubert is given a more appropriate shirt by his grandmother, Martha Katz. (Courtesy NFB) Two very different scenes in the National Film Board of Canada’s short documentary film Martha –…
Catalina Beraducci plays Noemí Goldberg in the Topic film Noemí Gold. (photo from Topic) For his first feature film, writer and director Dan Rubenstein has done well. Noemí Gold, which is currently streaming exclusively on Topic, is a quietly engaging…
As I watched the National Film Board of Canada short film Old Dog, which preceded a documentary screening at this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival, I did a double take. Or, rather, a double listen. I knew that voice. And…
Earlier this fall, the National Film Board of Canada released the short Come to your senses, co-created Alicia Eisen and Sophie Jarvis. It is part of NFB’s The Curve, an online series “featuring the talents of 40 creators and filmmakers,…
In Bloomywood, Michael Bloomstein (played and co-created by David Meyers) wanders around Tinseltown asking random people on the street to help him make a movie about his life. (photo from David Meyers) When David Meyers moved from New Jersey to Los…
The character of Guy Nehama, played by Reshef Levi, dreams of becoming a standup comic. (photo from Topic) It took me a couple of episodes, but then I was hooked. Initially, most of the characters on the award-winning Israeli show…
