Showing: NYJFF
Interview: Bruce Checefsky on Franciszka and Stefan Themerson
Bruce Checefsky of the Cleveland Institute of Art discusses Poland's first avant-garde filmmakers, how their work expresses the fraught situation in Warsaw in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and his recreation of Themerson films lost during the Nazi occupation and World War II.
Interview: Zuzanna Solakiewicz, “Yorzeit”
Director Zuzanna Solakiewicz reveals a little-known piece of Jewish history: a gravesite in Poland of three holy masters, covered up during World War II. Travel to Poland with Meir Moszkowicz on Yorzeit (the anniversary of the death of Master Zvi) in this beautiful documentary.
Shlocky Horror Picture Show
Critic J. Hoberman gives an overview of the history of Jewish horror in a piece that served as the inspiration for his upcoming New York Jewish Film Festival program The Black Cat (and Other Tales).
Interview: Karen Thorsen & Tracie Holder, “Joe Papp in Five Acts”
How did New York end up with public theater, Shakespeare in Central Park, and subway posters for Broadway shows? How did Meryl Streep, David Mamet, and George C. Scott get started? Directors Tracie Holder and Karen Thorsen discuss their documentary portrait of the man responsible for it all, Joe Papp.
