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... on in the 1960s. Whether the movie will end with a successful movement is in your hands. To create the world we want, we need your involvement and help. To be successful, all of us need to begin to embrace a utopian, visionary approach and insist upon it, promote it, and not give up until we ultimately win...

... helping a retired British prime ing out empathetically minister, Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan), toward his wife’s AND THE MOVIES finish his memoirs. Parallels between Lang Judaism, his childhood...

... and intelligent to boot. ran out of patience with movies so DISTRICT 9, TriStar Pictures, 2009 The Informant! is a tricky movie to dis­ drenched in computerized effects that you Review by D avid Sterritt cuss, however, because if you...

... but Gandhi had long since war—slang meaning the box you’ll be in if actly the opposite of our “nor­ ceased to obey any but the “still danger catches you off guard. The movie’s mal” human response to small voice” within him. And highly authentic atmosphere comes...

... GRAN TORINO, Warner Brothers, 2008 movie industries abroad (where box-office Review by David Sterritt grosses don’t reign supreme) and in inde­ pendent companies. This helps explain h i s i s a t i m e w h e n m o s t why...

...Rabbi Michael Lerner Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2013 I’ d been reflecting on the movie Lincoln with a certain uneasiness. I deeply appreciated how the movie brought to life a moment of American history that recalls the deep racism that permeated the Congress even during the Civil War...

..., the Aswat concert provides a glori­ Review by D avid Sterritt contrast Shmuel with real Holocaust chil­ ous rem inder that the Arab world has dren, who—if they weren’t immediately produced much that is of great worth for UDGING FROM RECENT MOVIE...

... debut film, Badlands , an artistic road movie starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek as natural-born killers on a spree. His second picture, Days of Heaven (1978), is an elliptical romance; his third, The Thin Red Line (1998), is a philosophical war picture; and his fourth, The New World (2005...

... expert, bringing the larger orches­ by those of us who grew up with Arabic­ sonhurst movie theater on Friday tral elements together with the earthi­ speaking grandparents. As scholar Mark evenings. Sabbath observers wishing to ness of the percussion and the gorgeous Kligman has recently...

..., Lem’s extraordinary to ties (American subject unsettling an like a misfire movies in like topical...

... moods and omens on both sides of the ques­ decades hence. of ill fortune. tion, but this isn’t what Like many of Haneke’s More important, I could concentrate makes the movie interest­ films, The White Ribbon...

... Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2007 C U R R E N T TH IN K IN G \ \ MOVIES THAT SEEK TO INSPIRE are often dull and don’t keep your attention. So what a pleasure to find something different in: Sicko...

... A film by Oren Jacoby k gration. Inter-human bonds lose their institu­ James Carroll’s book has now tional protections, “which are increasingly been released as a movie, and it viewed as irritating and unbearable con­...

... survive attacks from an interstellar capitalist empire seeking empire survive capitalist to ex­an from attacks interstellar to stmggle their us into movie draws the alive and consciousness, spiritually and sensitive, pacific, environmentally fundamentally called goddess a mother...

... these very words to his is a cruel twist of history th at its enemy to consider w hat makes a war movie into men, until losing his nerve in a general in the north is now a more capable and an anti-w ar movie. In Saving Private panic th at seizes the entire Israeli con­ fanatical foe in the form...

... and how the universe we inhabit came to be. The movie more streamlined this time around, drain­ birth of a daughter, Sarah, who carried the promises a dialogue between fact and fic­ ing off some of the concept’s goofiness holiest of bloodlines into future genera­ tion, materiality...

..., it will risk joining the other side and becoming part of the institutions that not only deny the greatest causes of suffering but also actively perpetuate harm. P articipating in the D akota C ommemorative M arch was like watching, all week long, a movie about the terrible ways the white colonizers...