Film (2013)
Directed by John Curran
Screenplay by Marion Nelson
based on a memoir by
Robyn Davidson
With Mia Wasikowska, Adam Driver
Based on a true story, a moving account of a woman who walks across the Australian outback accompanied by her dog and four camels.
The Green Prince
Film (2014)
Directed by Nadav Schirman
Based on the memoir
Son of Hamas (2010)
by Mosab Hassan Yousef
With Mosab Hassan Yousef,
Gonen Ben Itzhak
A moving documentary about the relationship between an operative in the Israeli Secret Service (the Shin Bet), and the so-called Green Prince, the son of a Hamas leader in the West Bank.
Interview With The Green Prince and His Handler
An interview with Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of a founder of Hamas, and Gonen ben Itzhak, a former Israeli Shin Bet agent with whom he worked for ten years, whose relationship and story is portrayed in the penetrating new documentary The Green Prince.
Far From Heaven
Musical (2014)
Music by Scott Frankel
Lyrics by Michael Korie
Book by Richard Greenberg
Directed by Scott Edmiston
Speakeasy Stage Company
Calderwood Pavilion, Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston, MA
September 12 – October 11, 2014
A surprisingly good musical adaptation of the eponymous 2002 film set in the 1950s about a woman, trapped in a marriage with a closeted gay man, who falls in love with her black gardener.
This Is Where I Leave You
Film (2014)
Directed by Shawn Levy
With Jason Bateman, Tina Fey,
Jane Fonda, Adam Driver
An unexpectedly funny film about a Jewish family which comes together to sit shiva, to spend a week in mourning at home.