AltWeeklies Wire
'Defiance': Tough Jewsnew
Edward Zwick's Holocaust film lacks subtlety -- and that's exactly why it's likely to be a crowd-pleaser.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
01-14-2009 |
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Parenting Off the Grid and Off the Reservation in 'Surfwise'new
Halfway through Surfwise, a mesmerizingly ambivalent documentary about an itinerant family of Jewish surfer-dude health nuts, we meet the 84-year-old patriarch, "Doc" Paskowitz showing director Doug Pray a blown-up photo of a Nazi preparing to shoot a Jewish mother and child at close range.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
05-27-2008 |
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Jeremy Podeswa Adds A Personal Touch to 'Fugitive Pieces'new
Like Jakob Beer, the hero of Anne Michaels's novel, Fugitive Pieces, Podeswa's father is Polish and survived the war.
NOW Magazine |
Deidre Swain |
05-02-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Scents and Sensibility
I hate the digital camera -- I never use a digital camera!
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
02-03-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Life Isn't Beautiful
Does Fateless clear the bar already set by previous Holocaust accounts? Yes, but in a paradoxical way -- by pretending that the bar isn't there
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
02-03-2006 |
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