2008
January 2008
Thursday 17 January 2008
Thu 17 Jan. January 2 - January 17 Beginning January 2, with 5 screenings through January 17, The Boston Jewish Film Festival and the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Film Program are pleased to present the Boston release of Danieil Anker's Imaginary Witness: Hollywood AND THE Holocaust. Directed by Academy Award®-nominated and Emmy-winning director Daniel Anker (Scottsboro: An American Tragedy, BJFF2000), Imaginary Witness explores the ways American movies shape our perception of the Holocaust. Using rarely seen footage; first-hand accounts by directors, actors, writers, and producers; and clips from such films as The Great Dictator, The Pawnbroker, Sophie’s Choice, and Schindler’s List, the film examines Hollywood’s complex responses to the horrors of Nazi Germany. Narrat. 1001 Watertown Street, West Newton, 02465. Sara Rubin, 617-244-9899, info@bjff.org. Boston Jewish Film Festival - [events]
Sunday 20 January 2008
Sun 20 Jan. January 20 As part of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, we are pleased to bring back HotHouse, one of the documentary selections from this past November's 19th Annual Boston Jewish Film Festival. Almost ten thousand Palestinians are held prisoner in what one Fatah leader calls de facto “universities of Palestinian nationalism.” Granted rare permission to record life in Israel’s highest-security facilities, documentary filmmaker Shimon Dotan explores this chilling and fascinating phenomenon through interviews with Israeli prison guards, leaders of Hamas and Fatah, a female suicide bomber, and others. Tickets are $6 for MFA and Boston Jewish Film Festival members, seniors, and students; $7 for general admission. To purchase tickets online, 1001 Watertown Street, West Newton, 02465. Sara Rubin, 617-244-9899, info@bjff.org. Boston Jewish Film Festival - [events]
Thursday 24 January 2008
Thu 24 Jan to Thu 31 Jan. January 24 - January 31 The Boston Jewish Film Festival is pleased to co-present, with The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, five screenings of the critically hailed (and BJFF 2006 Audience Award Winner) THE RAPE OF Europa, from January 24-31. Based on Lynn H. Nicholas’ book of the same name, this astonishing and timely documentary tells the epic story of the systematic theft, deliberate destruction and miraculous survival of Europe’s art treasures during the Third Reich. The film begins and ends with artist Gustav Klimt’s 1907 portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (a turn-of-the-20th-century Viennese hostess), recently awarded to the latter’s 90-year-old niece. In turn, she sold it only months ago to Ronald Lauder for a staggering $135 million, the then-highest price. 1001 Watertown Street, West Newton, 02465. Sara Rubin, 617-244-9899, info@bjff.org. Boston Jewish Film Festival - [events]