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3 days ago · 2016 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of films released, and notable deaths.
2 days ago · Early life Leonard Norman Cohen was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in the wealthy Montreal enclave of Westmount, Quebec, on September 21, 1934. His Lithuanian Jewish mother, Marsha ("Masha") Klonitsky (1905–1978), emigrated to Canada in 1927 and was the daughter of Talmudic writer and rabbi Solomon Klonitsky-Kline. His paternal grandfather, who had emigrated from Suwałki, in Congress ...
5 days ago · Roman Polanski (born August 18, 1933, Paris, France) is a French Polish director, scriptwriter, and actor who, through a variety of film genres, explored themes of isolation, desire, and absurdity. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) Shortly after the young Polanski’s family settled in Kraków, Poland, his ...
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4 days ago · The Mortal Storm. Frank Borzage. One character is sent to a concentration camp and dies there, while his family is trying to leave Nazi Germany. 1940. United States. The Great Dictator. Charlie Chaplin. A condemnation of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, fascism, antisemitism, and the Nazis.
5 days ago · New York Polish Film Festival 2024. May 30 – June 1, 2024. Online June 2- 16, 2024. Scandinavia House. 58 Park Ave. New York, NY 10016. Tickets. This year, The New York Polish Film Festival will celebrate its 19th Anniversary. It is the only annual film festival presenting and promoting Polish cinema on the East Coast.
4 days ago · Following “The Zone of Interest,” Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain” and Berlinale offering “Treasure,” about a Holocaust survivor, the latter starring Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham ...
4 days ago · Schindler's List, a poignant war drama directed by Steven Spielberg, unfolds through the life of Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), an unlikely hero during the Holocaust. In Nazi-occupied Poland, businessman Schindler becomes an unexpected savior, employing Jews in his factories to spare them from concentration camps.
