Film (2015)
Written and directed by
Yuval Delshad
National Center for Jewish Film
19th Annual Film Festival
West Newton Cinema, Newton, MA
May 4-22, 2016
An affecting drama about an Israeli-Iranian family in which a father’s expectations that his young son will follow him into business lead to complications.
Movies
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Film (2016)
Written and directed by Matt Brown
based on The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan (1992)
by Robert Kanigel
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
With Jeremy Irons, Dev Patel
A beautifully executed and moving biopic about the Indian mathematical genius S. Ramanujan, who wrote distinguished mathematician G.H. Hardy in 1913 from Madras, and wound up going to Cambridge, England and proving his mettle there.
Everybody Wants Some
Film (2016)
Written and directed by
Richard Linklater
Now in college and still playing baseball, the young hero of Linklater’s earlier Dazed and Confused grows up a bit.
Interview with Kim Barker
Interview
with Kim Barker
author of The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan (2011)
The war-reporter whose funny and moving memoir about Afghanistan and Pakistan inspired the recent film Whiskey Tango Foxtrot starring Tina Fey.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Film (2016)
Directed by Glenn Ficarra and
John Requa
Screenplay by Robert Carlock
Based on the memoir
The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days
in Afghanistan and Pakistan
by Kim Barker
With Tina Fey, Margot Robbie,
Martin Freeman, Alfred Molina,
Billy Bob Thornton
A wonderfully done and surprisingly amusing account based somewhat loosely on the life and career of Kim Barker who became a war correspondent in Afghanistan in 2003.