Category: Media
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Arrangements in Air: Navigating the World of Audio Drama
With the decline of radio and the rise of the Internet most audio drama has moved to a base not in broadcast but rather in podcast. New problems have arisen but two are especially notable. The first is an old problem in a new context:…
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Lenin in October has Seattle Jewish Film Festival audiences rolling in the aisles
What could be more fraught with hilarious peril than a scenario in which a man, with lofty dreams of owning his own restaurant, comes into a large inheritance with a stipulation that goes against, if not his own beliefs and ideals, then certainly those of…
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NBC’s Fashion Star Premiere Episode
Tuesday, March 13th brought the premiere of NBC’s new reality show, Fashion Star. Seattle is represented by not one, but two designers on Fashion Star. Lizzie Parker, who sells her line out of her boutique in Kirkland and Lisa Vian Hunter who has a lovely…
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Nicky’s Family: The Untold Story of “the British Schindler”
I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t been dreading the inevitability of a Holocaust film coming up on my docket for this year’s Seattle Jewish Film Festival. Having read the synopsis for Nicky’s Family, I was looking forward to the screening in theory but…
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Friend or Foe? My So-Called Enemy Humanizes the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
My So-called Enemy is a new documentary that just played at the SJFF that explores if it is possible for teenage girls across the Israeli/Palestine divide to form lasting friendships after spending just nine days together at a camp. Not only is it possible, but…
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Mabul at SJFF: Sometimes You Need a Good Flood
Dikla Tuchman talks about Mabul, the opening film at the Seattle Jewish Film Festival.
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Seventeenth Annual Jewish Film Festival Coming to a Theater Near You
On Thursday, March 15, the Cinerama Theater will be opening its doors once again to a flood of anxious film festival attendees, kicking off the 17th Annual Seattle Jewish Film Festival (SJFF). Presented by the American Jewish Committee, the SJFF is the largest Seattle film…
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Don Hertzfeldt Brings His Bitter Films to Seattle
As anyone who ever attended a Puget Sound Cinema Society screening knows, I love Don Hertzfeldt’s work. His brilliant Lily and Jim was one of the show-stoppers of the old PSCS days and his work has only grown funnier and richer since then.
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Two Seattle Designers to join the cast of Fashion Star
Breaking news! Not one, but two Seattle designers made the cast of NBC’s new fashion-slanted-reality-competition-show, Fashion Star. Sounds like bragging rights to me!
