Deference, (1999), Timothy Hutton as a Jewish President and Sheryl Lee
Ralph as Sec of Defense
Bloom (2002), coming of age story.
Annie Hall
The Angel Levine
Barton Fink, 1991
Batman Returns (1992) Michael Keaton and Danny Devito. A story of identity.
Is the penguin a symbol for The Jew, sent down a river like Moses, shunned
from society, filled with a nefarious hidden agenda?
Body and Soul
Chinese Jews on
Clueless
The Frisco Kid
Funny Girl (68)
Gestapos Last Orgy, 1976 (Italy)
Godfather 2
Going in Style, 1979
Hello Dolly
I Love You Rosa
Judgement @ Nuremberg 1961
Judith (1965)
Julia 1977
Love and Death 1975
Marathon Man 1976
Norma Rae 1979
Play it Again Sam 1972
Reds, 1981
Sleeper 1973
Sweet Lorraine 1987
The Front (1976), Directed by Martin Ritt, 95 min, written by blacklisted
writer Walter Bernstein, stars Woody Allen and Zero Mostel. from National
Ctr for Jewish Film.
The Jazz Singer (1981 remake)
The Man in the Glass Booth 1975
The Pawnbroker 1965
The Producers 1968
The Sunshine Boys 1975
This is Not Erotica (1994)
The Odessa File 1974
Pogrzeb Kartofla 1991
Posegnanie z Maria 1993
Quiz Show
Salto 1965
Tobruk 1967
Le vie homme et l enfant
Yahudi 1958
Zezowate Szczescie
Zelone La Ta 1980
Ziemia Obiecana 1974
Biloxi Blues
Shadowlands
Ivanhoe
Akcija Stadion 1977
Me and the Colonel 1958
La Grande Illusion
The Hiding Place
Jeszczetylko ten las
Les Lunettes d or
Niedzielne Igraszki
Akcija Stadion, 1977
Uncle Moses (1932) Sidney Goldin and Aubrey Scotto
Hungry Hearts (1922) Samuel Goldwyn, 1992, 80 minutes E Mason Hopper, Silent
with English intertitles starring Rosie Rosanova
Romance of a Jewess (1908) 10 minutes, directed by D W Griffith, based
on the stories of Anzia Yezierska, it is a bittersweet saga of immigrant
life filmed on the LES
Lucky Boy. (1929) 100 minutes. Directed by Norman Taurog and Charles C.
Wilson. With George Jessel and Rosie Rosanova. Tiffany Stahl Studios. Jessel
plays an ambitious Bronx boy who becomes a famous actor. Restored by the
UCLA Film and TV Archive.
The Heart of New York. (1932) 65 minutes. Directed by Mervyn Le Roy for
Warner Bros. Vaudeville star George Sidney plays a plumber who becomes
a millionaire after inventing a washing machine
His Wife's Lover. (1931) 80 minutes. Dir: Sidney M. Goldin. Ludwig Satz
plays a manic Second Avenue comedian. This is the "first 100 percent Yiddish
singing and talking picture" High Art Pictures.
Taxi!. 1932. Warner Bros. Dir: Roy Del Ruth. In an excerpt of this film
James Cagney plays a Yiddish speaking NY cabbie.
The Front. Columbia Pictures. 1976. 94 minutes. Dir: Martin Ritt. Starring
Woody Allen and Zero Mostel. Walter Bernstein was a blacklisted writer.
This sis a tragi-comedy about a schlemiel who fronts for banned writers
in the 1950's.
Body and Soul. 1947. 104 minutes. Dir: Robert Rossen. Stars John Garfield.
A boxing drama. Garfield acknowledges his Jewish identity.
New York Ghetto Fish Market 1903. 1993-97. Directed by Ken Jacobs. 90 minutes.
Experimental film pioneer Ken Jacobs will use his remarkable invention,
to Nervous System, to transform a 1903 Edison short into a live, two projector
performance that offers a haunting look at the birth of cinema and a vivid
slice of immigrant life. Performed at the American Museum of the Moving
Image, Queens NY.
A Letter to Mama /A Brivele Der Mamen (1938) Poland, 106 minutes Joseph
Green. Yiddish. Nat Ctr for Jewish Film., This film was released 2 weeks
after the Nazi's invaded Poland. It is one of the last Yiddish talkies
made in Poland. Lucy German stars as Dobrish Berdichevsky, a family matriarch.
She tries to manage the fractured family after her husband and youngest
son have gone to America prior to WWI. $50 from www.jewishvideo.com
Different From The Others, Germany 1919
Life and Times of Harvey Milk
The Golem (of Los Angeles). 25 min. video $30 from www.jewishvideo.com
Purple Grass (Israel) Dina Zvi Riklis (1997)
The Postman w/ Kevin Costner is based on a 1985 softcore sci-fi novel of
the same name by David Brin about a Jewish postman named Gordon Krantz
who pines for a tolerant old American civilization (not like that of Nazi
Europe), based on A Canticle for Leibowitz (1960) by Walter Miller
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