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Movie Review: Gift to Stalin (Подарок Сталину) and Interview with Cast

December 17, 2009

This is not an easy movie to see. In fact, I didn’t want to see it at all and fought with myself because I knew just from the description it would be an impossibly cruel movie about the bodies Stalin left behind. Nevertheless, you should see it, because to see this movie is to understand what it means to be human.  It helped me understand much better what my grandpa, who was in exile in Uzbekistan during World War II ...

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Movie Review: 10 Weizman Street plus Comme ton Pere

December 14, 2009

I don’t think there’s anything more awesome about DC than being able to go to Le French Embassy for a Jewish Film Festival (you can read about the last movie I saw here, and please note that I was compensated with free tickets for the festival, but as always, I don’t endorse anything that’s lame).  I did just that last week.  Can you tell I was excited by my tweets? There, we saw the short film 10 Weizman Street, which ...

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Movie Review: Amreeka

September 27, 2009

Go see this movie. As soon as possible. Amreeka (America in Arabic) is the story of how a Christian Palestinian single mom, Muna, and her son, Fadi,  get a visa to go to America from the West Bank town of Bethlehem because it is clear that there is not much future in the territories for them. They arrive in snowy Illinois to stay with Muna’s sister and her family.  So starts Muna’s process of getting on her feet as an ...

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July 29, 2009

iPhones and iMacs in Movies: Does Apple Pay for Product Placement?

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Casablanca

July 1, 2009

Mr. B and I finally got around to watching Casablanca, rounding out the last two people in the Western Hemisphere who have not seen this film.  Because my attention span has been derailed, much like an actual train, by Twitter, my ever-growing RSS feed, and, not being able to watch a black and white movie for more than ten minutes before yelling at our TV to stop being ‘so 1956′, we had to take two nights to do it.  Here ...

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