Film (2016)
Directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman
With Saorise Ronan, Chris O’Dowd
Capitol Theater, Arlington, MA
Kendall Square Cinema, Cambridge, MA
An unbelievably beautiful film about the death of van Gogh – artfully written and visually stunning.
Movies
Victoria and Abdul
Film (2017)
Directed by Stephen Frears
With Judi Dench
A poignant but comedic account of the friendship between an Indian Muslim commoner and Queen Victoria near the end of her life.
Tulip Fever
Film (2017)
Directed by Justin Chadwick
Screenplay Tom Stoppard and
Deborah Moggach
Based on the novel by
Deborah Moggach
With Alicia Vikander, Christoph Waltz, Dane DeHaan, Judi Dench
A romantic drama set in The Netherlands of the mid-seventeenth century when painters were prolific and rapidly inflated tulip bulbs became worth fortunes overnight.
Menashe
Film (2017)
Directed by Joshua Z. Weinstein
With Menashe Lustig (Menashe)
A poignant, artfully done, film, almost entirely in Yiddish (with subtitles), about a young widower in a Brooklyn Hasidic community who attempts to raise his young son in spite of strong challenges from within it.
Joshua Weinstein (Director), Menashe Lustig (Star) of “Menashe”
Interview
Josh Weinstein (Director), Menashe Lustig (Star) of the film Menashe (2017)
I met with Joshua Weinstein, director, and Menashe Lustig, actor, in early May when they were in Boston to screen Menashe, one of the very few full-length narrative films in Yiddish to appear in recent years, at the Boston International Film Festival. This edited transcript is based on that interview.