Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleWelcome to The Reel Schmooze with ToI film reviewer Jordan Hoffman and host Amanda Borschel-Dan, where we bring you all the entertainment news and film reviews a Jew can use.
This week, we learn that famed actress and chanteuse Barbra Streisand received an honorary Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Borschel-Dan, who is reading the artist’s massive memoir, calls on all podcast fans to send in the names of their favorite Streisand films for a future episode.
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We then turn to the monumentally Jewish movie, “A Serious Man,” written, produced, edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen in 2009.
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Set in 1967 Minnesota, the film focuses on the Gopnik family: father Larry, mother Judith, kids Danny and Sarah, and uncle Arthur. On the surface, the middle-class family appears to be merrily rolling along, anticipating Danny’s approaching bar mitzvah. And then everything falls apart and it becomes a very funny retelling of the Book of Job.
However, before the movie takes off, the audience is treated to a quote from the great rabbinic sage Rashi and is shown a Yiddish-only shtetl ghost story short — just… because.
Stay tuned for our duo’s thoughts on the much-recommended Coen brothers’ film, “A Serious Man.”
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