Lou Reed will participate in a discussion following a screening of his documentary RED SHIRLEY, about his hundred-year-old activist cousin
Walter Reade Theater
165 West 65th St. between Broadway & Amsterdam Ave.
January 12-27, $12
212-721-6500
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www.thejewishmuseum.org
The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Jewish Museum will be celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the New York Jewish Film Festival with nearly three dozen shorts, documentaries, and narrative features, many of which will be followed by discussions with members of the cast and/or crew. The festivities begin January 12 with Percy and Felix Adlon’s MAHLER ON THE COUCH, which details the great composer’s sessions with Sigmund Freud while his wife dallies around with architect Walter Gropius. Festival veteran Daniel Burman (EMPTY NEST, WAITING FOR THE MESSIAH) returns with 36 RIGHTEOUS MEN, a documentary examining an Orthodox pilgrimage to the tomb of the Baal Shem Tov. Lily Rivlin looks at the great writer in GRACE PALEY: COLLECTED SHORTS, Jonathan Gruber examines Jewish Americans who fought in the Civil War in JEWISH SOLDIERS IN BLUE AND GRAY, Erik Greenberg Anjou profiles the popular band in THE KLEZMATICS: ON HOLY GROUND, Eve Annenberg incorporates Hasidism and the Kabbalah into the Yiddish mumblecore picture ROMEO AND JULIET IN YIDDISH, klezmer hip-hop artist Socalled will perform with Katie Moore after a screening of Garry Beitel’s THE “SOCALLED” MOVIE, and a special showing of George Marshall’s 1953 biopic, HOUDINI, pays tribute to its late star, Tony Curtis, and will be followed by a magic performance by Josh Rand. The festival concludes on January 27 with Avi Nesher’s drama THE MATCHMAKER, which was nominated for seven Israeli Academy Awards.