Moghrabi Theatre Moghrabi Square, Tel Aviv Architects: Joseph Berlin This Art Deco style movie house was opened in 1930, on Tel Aviv’s Moghrabi Square, designed by Israeli architect Joseph Berlin. The Moghrabi Theatre opened on 13th February 1930. One of the most beloved and remembered movie theatre of the one-screen era in Tel-Aviv. The […]
Oscar 2021: Iceland Picks Noomi Rapace’s Horror Lamb for International Feature Category
October 18, 2021 by
In Lamb, Valdimar Jóhannsson’s debut feature, Rapace and Hilmir Snær Gudnason play a childless farming couple who make an alarming discovery one day in their sheep barn. Hilmir Snær Gudnason and Noomi Rapace in ‘Lamb’ COURTESY OF CANNES FILM FESTIV Iceland has picked Lamb, a folkloric horror film starring Noomi Rapace (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo), to represent the […]
Last Hurrah, The (1958): John Ford’s Political Satire, Starring Spencer Tracy
October 16, 2021 by
John Ford directed The Last Hurrah, a political satire based on the 1956 novel by Edwin O’Connor, starring Spencer Tracy as a veteran mayor preparing for yet another election campaign. Praised for imbuing his iron-fist character with warmth and humanity, Tracy was nominated as Best Foreign Actor by BAFTA and won the Best Actor Award […]
Fauci: Docu about Man of the Hours–Public Servant, Scientist, Physician, Family
October 16, 2021 by
Fauci offers a portrait of Dr. Anthony Fauci, a public servant, scientist, physician, husband and father whose career spans seven presidents and bookended by two pandemics: HIV/AIDS, which shaped him, and COVID-19, which has tested him beyond all expectations. Directed by Emmy winners John Hoffman (“The Weight of the Nation,” “Sleepless in America”) and Janet […]
Harder They Fall, The: Jeymes Samuel’s Tale of Real-Life Black Cowboys
October 13, 2021 by
Jeymes Samuel spent more than a decade planning a story of real-life Black cowboys. He was finally on location in Santa Fe, New Mexico, gearing up to shoot his feature directorial debut, the Western The Harder They Fall. He’d assembled an all-star cast, topped by Idris Elba, Jonathan Majors and Regina King, fresh off her supporting actress […]
