Welcome 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, the pair speaks about two films, a feminist independent Iranian documentary called “Cutting Through Rocks,” which won an international documentary award at the Sundance Film Festival in January, and the 1990 Thanksgiving classic, “Avalon.”
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But first, in the entertainment news section we call the “Jangle,” Borschel-Dan tells Hoffman about the rise and fall of the Israeli rock opera, “Shaul,” by Israeli musician Shlomo Artzi.
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