[Mendele] Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements-- National Center for Jewish Film Events in Washington

Victor Bers victor.bers at yale.edu
Wed Feb 11 13:16:36 EST 2015


From: Lisa Rivo <lisarivo at brandeis.edu>
Date: January 14, 2015 10:15:35 PM EST

Subject: MENDELE PERSONALS - National Center for Jewish Film Yiddish Events
in Washington DC in February

The National Center for Jewish Film presents two Yiddish programs in
Washington DC at the Washington Jewish Film Festival
Feb 21, 22, 23 & March 1

More information: www.jewishfilm.org


 "Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem"


Saturday, February 21, 6:45 pm @ AFI Theater, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver
Spring, MD 20910
WJFF Centerpiece Screening with Special Guest: Theodore Bikel

Monday, February 23, 8:45 pm @ DCJCC, 1529 16th Street Northwest,
Washington, DC 20036
Encore Screening

WASHINGTON PREMIERE
Portraits of two beloved icons--Sholom Aleichem and Theodore Bikel--are
woven together in this enchanting new documentary. The two men have much in
common: wit, wisdom and talent, all shot through with deep humanity and
Yiddishkeit. Theodore Bikel, the unstoppable performer whose career spans
more than 150 screen roles (including an Oscar-nominated turn in The
Defiant Ones) and countless stage and musical productions, is also the
foremost interpreter of Sholom Aleichem's work. Now 90, Bikel has played
Tevye the Milkman on stage more than 2,000 times, and has
animated Aleichem's work through his two celebrated  musical plays about
the great Russian author. (USA | 2014 | 75m | Director: John Lollos)

"The grandest event...must-see" -San Jose Mercury News
"Bikel accentuates the positive...a festival highlight" -San Francisco
Chronicle
"Performance-packed doc destined to have a long life" -KQED Public Radio


"American Matchmaker (Amerikaner Shadkhn)”

Sunday, February 22, 12:30 pm @ Goethe Institut, 812 7th Street Northwest,
Washington, DC
Special Guests: Q&A Feb 22: National Center for Jewish Film Co-Directors
Sharon Pucker Rivo & Lisa Rivo

Sunday, March 1, 1:00 pm @ Rockville JCC, 6125 Montrose Road, Rockville, MD
20852
Encore Screening

Film Restored and with new English subtitles by The National Center for
Jewish Film

WASHINGTON PREMIERE
Leo Fuchs, the "Yiddish Fred Astaire," stars in this musical comedy as Nat
Silver, a debonair businessman whose recent engagement (his eighth) goes
awry. Director Edgar Ulmer's last Yiddish movie was also his most modern,
an art deco romantic comedy about male ambivalence and Jewish assimilation
that looks ahead to the films of Woody Allen. (USA | 1940 | 87m | Yiddish
w/ new English subtitles | Director: Edgar G. Ulmer )

"A successful combination of humor and schmaltz with comic insights along
the way...None is more charming than 'American Matchmaker.'"
-The Village Voice

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