The Nw Film Center along with the Institute for Judaic Studies brings you the 17th Annual Portland Jewish Film Festival.
The big film this year might just be another chance to see Waltz with Bashir on the big screen. Some feel this was the best animated film of 2008 … yes, even better than Wall-e. Others think it was the top documentary.
Here’s a complete list of films … each is single admission.
April 16 Thur 7 Pm
Max, Minsky And Me
Germany 2007
Director: Anna Justice
Nelly, a precocious 12-year-old, lives in Berlin with her German Christian dad and American Jewish mom, who is very eager for Nelly to crack down on her bat mitzvah studies. But her twin obsessions—astronomy and her distant fantasy heartthrob, 16-year-old Edouard, Prince of Luxembourg and fellow stargazer—occupy all of her time. Nor is she much interested in the simple-minded girls’ basketball team, which fills the lives of her schoolmates.
The big film this year might just be another chance to see Waltz with Bashir on the big screen. Some feel this was the best animated film of 2008 … yes, even better than Wall-e. Others think it was the top documentary.
Here’s a complete list of films … each is single admission.
April 16 Thur 7 Pm
Max, Minsky And Me
Germany 2007
Director: Anna Justice
Nelly, a precocious 12-year-old, lives in Berlin with her German Christian dad and American Jewish mom, who is very eager for Nelly to crack down on her bat mitzvah studies. But her twin obsessions—astronomy and her distant fantasy heartthrob, 16-year-old Edouard, Prince of Luxembourg and fellow stargazer—occupy all of her time. Nor is she much interested in the simple-minded girls’ basketball team, which fills the lives of her schoolmates.
- 4/2/2009
- by Jeff Bayer
- The Scorecard Review
Claude Miller’s A Secret is a solid, satisfying drama about the consequences of barely-guised desire set against the dangerous political background of Nazi-occupied France. Based on Philippe Grimbert’s autobiographical novel, A Secret constructs its revelations through enspirited premonitions and layered flashbacks, interestingly rendered in full color while the present day is shot in black and white; a cinematic inversion of the norm that works quite successfully, as if to say (by way of color) that there is more life in the past than there will ever be in the present. In other words, the colorful secrets of the past have leached the vitality out of the present.
Scrawny François (Valentin Vigourt) was born a four-pound baby who, despite vitamin B injections, has never physically developed into any form of noticeable strength. His imagination is strong, however. He imagines a stronger older brother who defrays the frustrated disappointment of...
Scrawny François (Valentin Vigourt) was born a four-pound baby who, despite vitamin B injections, has never physically developed into any form of noticeable strength. His imagination is strong, however. He imagines a stronger older brother who defrays the frustrated disappointment of...
- 11/4/2008
- by Michael Guillen
- Screen Anarchy
There's a bold bit of linkage between the historical and the personal in A Secret, Claude Miller's adaptation of Philippe Grimbert's autobiographical novel about growing up in a French Jewish family in the decades after World War II. The film is narrated by Mattieu Amalric, speaking as an adult looking back on his childhood with his attractive, athletic, aristocratic parents Cécile de France and Patrick Bruel. Amalric describes how he had an imaginary brother that his parents knew nothing about, and how in his head he'd built his parents up as the heroes of a romantic epic—with him being their happy ending. While Amalric is reminiscing, Miller cuts to a montage of Nazi rallies. The message: Just as the Nazis concocted the myth of Aryan supremacy to excuse their nefarious rise, so Amalric's family ignores its ghosts to justify a life of privilege. A Secret jumps back and.
- 9/4/2008
- by Noel Murray
- avclub.com
Strand Releasing
One of Claude Miller's most personal films to date, A Secret also is among the strongest in a 40-year career that yielded the memorable 1981 crime drama Under Suspicion.
Adapted by Miller and Natalie Carter from the Philippe Grimbert autobiographical novel, this stirring period portrait of a French family harboring a dark past takes familiar subject matter and casts it in a provocative setting.
It also has in leads Cecile De France, Ludivine Sagnier and Julie Depardieu three of the today's top French actresses -- Depardieu won a Caesar Award for her supporting performance -- making it a smart U.S. acquisition for Strand Releasing. Secret recently screened at the City of Lights, City of Angels festival.
Set primarily during the 1950s, the film is seen through the eyes of Francois Grimbert, a gawky, introverted 14-year-old who has always felt like a disappointment to his gregarious, athletic father (Patrick Bruel) and beautiful, former swim champ mother (De France).
There turns out to be justification for his deep-seated feelings of inadequacy, as Francois uncovers uncomfortable truths about his parents' lives as a young Jewish couple living in France during the Occupation.
To reveal anything more wouldn't be fair to this intriguing study in guilt and forgiveness, and the personal choices made that would reverberate throughout subsequent generations.
Incorporating a beautifully shot, clever color schematic, Miller, himself a child of the Holocaust, shifts effortlessly between three distinct time periods, while the exceptionally cast performers (also including "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly's" Mathieu Amalric as the adult Francois) imbue their generously written roles with both a palpable passion and a heartbreaking vulnerability.
One of Claude Miller's most personal films to date, A Secret also is among the strongest in a 40-year career that yielded the memorable 1981 crime drama Under Suspicion.
Adapted by Miller and Natalie Carter from the Philippe Grimbert autobiographical novel, this stirring period portrait of a French family harboring a dark past takes familiar subject matter and casts it in a provocative setting.
It also has in leads Cecile De France, Ludivine Sagnier and Julie Depardieu three of the today's top French actresses -- Depardieu won a Caesar Award for her supporting performance -- making it a smart U.S. acquisition for Strand Releasing. Secret recently screened at the City of Lights, City of Angels festival.
Set primarily during the 1950s, the film is seen through the eyes of Francois Grimbert, a gawky, introverted 14-year-old who has always felt like a disappointment to his gregarious, athletic father (Patrick Bruel) and beautiful, former swim champ mother (De France).
There turns out to be justification for his deep-seated feelings of inadequacy, as Francois uncovers uncomfortable truths about his parents' lives as a young Jewish couple living in France during the Occupation.
To reveal anything more wouldn't be fair to this intriguing study in guilt and forgiveness, and the personal choices made that would reverberate throughout subsequent generations.
Incorporating a beautifully shot, clever color schematic, Miller, himself a child of the Holocaust, shifts effortlessly between three distinct time periods, while the exceptionally cast performers (also including "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly's" Mathieu Amalric as the adult Francois) imbue their generously written roles with both a palpable passion and a heartbreaking vulnerability.
- 4/22/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARIS -- Strand Releasing is closing in on U.S. distribution rights for Claude Miller's Cesar-nominated Holocaust drama "A Secret". The adaptation of Philippe Grimbert's best-selling novel was nominated for 11 Cesars this year, with Julie Depardieu taking the best supporting actress prize for her role in the film.
UGC International is handling global sales for "Secret", which was released in Gaul on Oct. 3 by UGC.
The film screened this week at Unifrance's 13th annual Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in New York over the weekend, with a slew of Gallic titles now set for stateside distribution including Eric Guirado's "The Grocer's Son" (Film Movement) and Richard McGuire's "Fear(s) of the Dark" (IFC).
The "Secret" screening drew a huge crowd, with more than 100 filmgoers turned away.
UGC International is handling global sales for "Secret", which was released in Gaul on Oct. 3 by UGC.
The film screened this week at Unifrance's 13th annual Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in New York over the weekend, with a slew of Gallic titles now set for stateside distribution including Eric Guirado's "The Grocer's Son" (Film Movement) and Richard McGuire's "Fear(s) of the Dark" (IFC).
The "Secret" screening drew a huge crowd, with more than 100 filmgoers turned away.
PARIS -- Movies and manuscripts will be in the spotlight at the 2007 Cinema & Literature Forum set to take place April 12-14 in Monaco, organizers said Monday.
The sixth edition of the event, which brings together big names from the film and lit worlds, will feature public meetings, readings, book signings and film previews.
The festival will be presided by Monaco's sovereign, Prince Albert II, and honorary presidents Patricia MacDonald and helmer Milos Forman, who will give a "lesson in cinema."
Other events include a workshop based on Claude Miller and his adaptation of Philippe Grimbert's novel "A Secret"; a round table with Guillaume Canet and producer Alain Attal based on their Cesar award-winning film "Tell No One"; a "pitch" workshop with novelist Guillaume Musso and screenwriter Michel Fessler; public readings of Sylvie Testud's "Gamines"; and preview presentations of upcoming spring and summer literary releases.
Hollywood also will be in focus with a round table devoted to "literary adaptations and co-productions" in Europe and the U.S.
The sixth edition of the event, which brings together big names from the film and lit worlds, will feature public meetings, readings, book signings and film previews.
The festival will be presided by Monaco's sovereign, Prince Albert II, and honorary presidents Patricia MacDonald and helmer Milos Forman, who will give a "lesson in cinema."
Other events include a workshop based on Claude Miller and his adaptation of Philippe Grimbert's novel "A Secret"; a round table with Guillaume Canet and producer Alain Attal based on their Cesar award-winning film "Tell No One"; a "pitch" workshop with novelist Guillaume Musso and screenwriter Michel Fessler; public readings of Sylvie Testud's "Gamines"; and preview presentations of upcoming spring and summer literary releases.
Hollywood also will be in focus with a round table devoted to "literary adaptations and co-productions" in Europe and the U.S.
- 3/13/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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