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.
The “Schmoovie” of the week is “Marty Supreme,” starring Timothée Chalamet (who also co-produced), Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A’zion, Kevin O’Leary, Tyler Okonma, Abel Ferrara and Fran Drescher. It was produced and directed by Josh Safdie, who also co-wrote the script, alongside Ronald Bronstein.
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Like the very Jewish film it is, it arrived in the world on December 25 and so Borschel-Dan had to make a rare outing into a Jerusalem cinema. She brings back the unique impressions from an Israeli crowd watching this utterly Yiddishe story set in 1950s Lower East Side New York — especially how they reacted to Holocaust references.
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Hoffman, who recently interviewed director Safdie about the film for Vanity Fair, gives us the inside scoop on the crazy cast of characters that flesh out the “junkyard Jews” at the heart of the tale.
The pair keeps the conversation very general — no spoilers! — for the first half of the episode, but then get Talmudically into the weeds for the second.
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