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Jordan Hoffman

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Tavernier’s Journey Through French Cinema Is More Revel Than Crash Course

By Jordan Hoffman
Jun 23, 2017

The key word in the title is My. Bertrand Tavernier's three-hours-and-change film-essay is not a history lesson. It's an invitation to take the seat next to a renowned director as he shares the movies that mean something to him. We begin in Tavernier's childhood, during the war. In Lyon, his...
Hugely Popular Israeli Comedy The Women's Balcony Pits Wives Versus Husbands at Synagogue

By Jordan Hoffman
May 22, 2017

What will become of Zion? No, not the loosely defined term for a Jewish homeland in the Middle East, but a mild-mannered and fundamentally righteous shopkeeper living in Jerusalem and pulled between conservative religious forces and modernity. (Oh, so maybe I do mean the Jewish homeland in the Middle East.)...

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