Sunday, October 26 through Sunday, November 9, 2008

Award Winning Films for Adults & Children

Matzo & Mistletoe
Director: Kate Feiffer
U.S., 2007, 58 min.
Sunday, October 26, 6 p.m.
$8/general admission; $6/senior, student, child
Matzo & Mistletoe is a cinematic essay filled with heart, humor and Klezmer Christmas carols. Filmmaker Kate Feiffer asks and attempts to answer the question: “What does it mean to be a non–practicing Jew in America?” Does it mean celebrating Christmas instead of Chanukah and eating pork–fried rice with your gentile spouse? Or does it mean acting as an unwitting accomplice in what has been called a “silent Holocaust?” In her search for answers Feiffer talks with family, friends, newsman Mike Wallace, Alan Dershowitz, who wrote The Vanishing American Jew, and Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald, a leader in the Jewish continuity movement. Panel discussion following the film with: Sarah Pessin, Ph.D. – Director of the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver, Rabbi Brian Field of Judaism Your Way, Stuart Raynor – JCC Executive Director, and moderated by Dr. Steve Glickman – Director of Education at Temple Sinai and Chair of the Jewish Education Council.

Amos Oz
Written & Directed by: Stelios Charalampopoulos
Greece, 2008, 52 min.
Thursday, October 30, 6 p.m.
$8/general admission; $6/senior, student, child
Greek director Stelios Charalampopoulos has crafted an engaging and intimate portrait of the acclaimed Israeli iconoclastic and internationally celebrated author Amos Oz, nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Shot partly in Arad, Jerusalem, and in Salonica, Greece the film traces Oz's personal background: his childhood, his adolescence on kibbutz where he met his wife, the sole editor of his works, his family tragedies including his mother's suicide and his resulting inclination to narrate family chronicles. This poignant piece allows the viewer to enter the world of one of Israel's most fiercely eloquent proponents of co-existence and the Middle East peace process.

Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist
Director: Andrew D. Cooke
U.S., 2007, 96 min.
Thursday, November 6, 6 p.m.
$8/general admission; $6/senior, student, child
Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequentia l Artist presents one man's struggle against a culture often unwilling to see behind the paneled world of POW!, ZAP! and CRASH!, a man who devoted his entire career to taking a so-called child's medium and infusing it with a unique vision. Utilizing groundbreaking storytelling techniques, Will revolutionized the archetypical comic-book format into a new medium, the graphic novel, which today reaches a more mature, arguably more literary, audience. To Eisner, the form was limitless, bursting with a potential stretching far beyond super heroes and villains, reaching into the depths of artistic expression, where both artist and writer, working hand-in-hand, can touch the very soul of any reader.

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