“You know, Esther, there will always be a wilderness to conquer. Maybe Hollywood is your wilderness now.” — Lettie, to her granddaughter Tremendous and overwhelming, the original A Star Is Born is the one substantial film among the three versions. People will continue to argue whether Janet Gaynor or Judy Garland gives the better performance […]
Daily Archives: August 22, 2009
In Hebrew and Yiddish, with linking English commentary, the fine documentary Partisans of Vilna, by Josh Waletzky, consists of the recollections of surviving members of a Jewish resistance movement—elsewhere there were other such movements—in and about the Vilna Ghetto in Lithuania. Archival materials, both filmed and photographic, interlace the testimonies. The ruination of Vilna, “the […]
Dennis Grunes 