Her ongoing Critical Guide to
Jewish Women in Movies and TV has been the basis for talks to audiences in New York and New Jersey, and Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival.
«22 - A particularly graphic illustration of this point was the made - for - TV
movie Playing for Time (1980), a film which raised a touchy question: How could
Jewish women musicians play far Nazis
in the concentration camps?
I spent much of the
movie thinking about her Oscar - nominated turn as an intrepid Boston Globe reporter
in «Spotlight» and her wrenching performance as an Orthodox
Jewish woman in the upcoming drama «Disobedience,» and wondering why the studios can't give this brilliant actress something comparably rewarding to do.
It was one of those rare times when a major film studio — United Artists,
in this case — allowed him to make pretty much anything he wanted, even a sophisticated and very personal British
movie about an openly gay
Jewish doctor sharing his lover with a
woman.
The jurors the AWFJ EDA Awards @ SLIFF are (
in alphabetical order) Marina Antunes (Quietearth.us, Vancouver), Laurie Coker (True View Reviews, Austin), Cate Marquis (St. Louis
Jewish Light, St. Louis), Jennifer Merin (chair,
Women's eNews, New York), Michelle McCue (chair, We Are
Movie Geeks, St. Louis), Rebecca Pahle (Film Journal International, Brooklyn), Betsy Pickle (Knoxville Sentinel, Knoxville, TN), and Diana Saenger (Review Express, Alpine, CA).