5 min movie guide
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Elián
Living in Miami in 1999, only one subject dominated all our local media and the national ones too. It was the story of a 5 year old boy called Elián González who had been miraculously rescued floating in a tire inner tube in the middle of the ocean after his Cuban mother had drowned trying…
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One Week And A Day
No matter how long you nurse a dying relative it is still completely unbearable when they eventually depart this earth, particular when they are one of your children. It has been a week since 25 year Ronnie their only son has died of cancer and his Israeli parents Eyal (Shai Avivi) and Vicky (Evgenia Dodina) and…
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In Search of Israeli Cuisine
Israeli-born Philadelphia chef/restauranter Michael Solomonov sets out in this documentary by director Roger Sherman to criss cross Israel in search of ‘real’ Israeli cuisine. It is a contentious search just by the mere fact that several of the foodie experts and journalists that he interviews en route, question if in a country as young as…
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A Quiet Passion
For his latest cinematic treat the veteran British auteur Terence Davies has written and directed a visually stunning period-drama biopic on the great American poet Emily Dickinson. Born into a prominent Massachusetts family in 1830, but Davies starts his story when as a rather troublesome young woman, Emily (Emma Bell) is cutting short her studies at Mount…
