By A.J. Goldmann
Master of squirm, Todd Solondz, directs a new film that solidifies his role as the Jewish foster child of John Waters and David Lynch.
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By A.J. Goldmann
Wanda Landowska, the Polish-Jewish musician and educator sometimes called the “rediscoverer of the harpsichord,” is the subject of a loving new exhibit at the Bach House, in Eisenach, Germany.
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By A.J. Goldmann
The Berlin International Film Festival, which unspools in the German capital each February, is Europe’s largest film fest. This year’s installment, which ran from February 10 to 20, featured four Israeli productions and a number of films that dealt with Jewish issues, not including the Coen Brothers’ “True Grit,” which opened the festival with a splashy star-studded red carpet gala.
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By A.J. Goldmann
The Israeli director Jonathan Sagall reclines in a futuristic white leather pod, drinking fancy herbal tea in a private lounge on the 24th floor of the Kollhoff Building at Potsdamer Platz. Down below, the film journalists, industry officials, actors and stargazers scramble like ants toward the various venues of the 61st Berlin International Film Festival, where Sagall’s new film “
Lipstikka” (a curiously rendered translation of the film’s original title,
“Odem,” the Hebrew word for lipstick) is competing for the coveted Gold and Silver Bears in the main festival program.
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By A.J. Goldmann
Else Lasker-Schüler was one of the most influential literary figures in early 20th-century Berlin. She was known for her literary
Stammtisch, or get-togethers, at the Café des Westens and for her bohemian ways. But it was her Expressionist poetry, with its penchant for exotic imagery and neologism, that made her famous.
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