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​               ORT MOVIE GROUP on ZOOM
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                 DO YOU LIKE WATCHING AND TALKING ABOUT MOVIES?
                                                    Come join us!
 
    Our current movie group started meeting in August, 2020 during  
    Covid, when the JCC presented their first virtual Jewish Film Festival.
    The group was so successful that we have continued to meet monthly 
    since then.  We select two movies each month to watch at home and    
    then meet on Zoom to discuss them.  We are proud to have been an 
    organizational sponsor of the JCC Film Festival for the past two years!
 
     We meet on the second Sunday of the month at 4PM.
     The group is open to all ORT members and there is a donation of
     $25 to ORT for the Movie Group.
 
     Please contact Marian Cohen at [email protected] to join
     or for more information.  We look forward to having you join us!



February 9
“1945”, 2017, History/Drama, 1h 31m, YouTube ($3,99),
IMDb 7.1/10, Rotten Tomatoes 97%
This extraordinary black-and-white Hungarian film parlays the enigmatic postwar arrival of two exhausted Jews at a small village into an exposé of guilt, betrayal, corruption and murder. One of the most acclaimed European films of 2017, “1945” is a gripping and haunting reckoning with dark history. 91 minutes, in Hungarian with subtitles.

Our Almost Completely True Love Story, 2021, Romantic comedy,1h, 32m, YouTube ($4.99), Fandango ($4.99),  Prime Video.  Prime Video is a streaming service that is free if you subscribe to Amazon Prime. IMDb 6.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes 87%.
When a beautiful, tall, aging Hollywood star and a short, funny Jewish man try online dating, it's a disaster. But when they randomly meet at a bird store (what are the chances?), he is immediately smitten, but she not so much. As he pursues the woman of his dreams, his charm, sense of humor, and multiple impressions win her over in their heartwarming (almost completely true) love story. 
From Gretta:
The four comments on Rotten Tomatoes made it sound cute.
Also--https://www.app.com/story/entertainment/movies/2024/02/22/our-almost-completely-true-love-story-full-of-friends-romance-asbury-park-new-jersey/72312861007


March 9
Refusing to be Enemies, 2007, 58 minutes.  There is a video of the film that can be viewed on your computer.
The documentary, Refusing to Be Enemies, is about a group of 12 women, six Jewish and six Arab, who call themselves "Zeitouna" and their journey of personal and socio-political transformation.
The story is a 58-minute long documentary film that profiles without Hollywood patina a self-formed group of twelve ordinary women calling themselves “Zeitouna,” the Arab word for “olive tree.” These six Arabs and six Jews weave an unusual and intimate tapestry of sisterhood.  The filmmaker is Laurie White, a member of Zeitouna, who lives in Ann Arbor.  
For more information, visit their website at http://www.refusingtobeenemies.org.

Enemies, A Love Story, 1989, Comedy/Drama, 2h, Prime Video, YouTube ($3.99), Fandango ($3.99).
IMDb 6.5/10, Rotten Tomatoes 89%
Herman Broder (Ron Silver), a Holocaust survivor living in New York City and struggling with depression after his ordeals in the war, makes his living ghostwriting for a rabbi. Herman is married to Yadwiga (Margaret Sophie Stein) but is also having an affair with Masha (Lena Olin), a married woman. Things grow even more chaotic when Herman's first wife, Tamara (Anjelica Huston), who he thought had died in the war, shows up in New York as well. Based on the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer.  Directed by Paul Mazursky.



​Movies we’ve seen:

January 12, 2024
My Favorite Year

Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara

December 8, 2024

Cinema Sabaya
Denial


November 10, 2024
Ahead of Time:  The Extraordinary Journey of Ruth Gruber
Girlfriends

October 13, 2024

Liberty Heights

The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob

September 8, 2024 - Sephardi month; choices in conjunction with the book. Kantika, being read by the book group
The Forgotten Refugees
Beneath Another Sun 
Last Class in Baghdad 
A Story for Elina 
What We Left Behind 
Seven Stories


Chronological listing changes here: 
August, 2020:  
Abe 
Crescendo

September, 2020:
The Tobaccanist
The House of Wannsee Street

October, 2020:
The Spy (miniseries about Israeli spy, Eli Cohen)

November, 2020:
The Red Sea Diving Resort
The Jewish Cardinal

December, 2020:  
(Movies by director, Danny Ben-Moshe)
Shalom Bollywood
Outback Rabbis
Code of Silence

January, 2021:
To Each Her Own
School Ties

February, 2021:
Playing for Time
Windermere Children

March, 2021:
A Call to Spy
The Last Resort

April, 2021:
Fiddler:  Miracle of Miracles
Creating a Character:  The Moni Yakim Legacy

May, 2021:
The Dig
The Little Traitor

June, 2021:
Saferad
The Matchmaker (2010 Israeli film)

July, 2021
Nowhere in Africa
Audrey (2020) 

August 2021 
​Arranged
Ida


September 2021 
​Heading Home

Every Time We Say Goodbye


October 2021
One of Us
Crip Camp

November 2021
Gentleman's Agreement
Hester Street

December 2021​
​Fill the Void
Howard Zinn

January 2022
A Quiet Heart
Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy

February 2022
Crime on the Bayou

March 2022
Aida's Secret
​Minyin

April 2022
Pig
​Four Seasons Lodge


May 2022

Gett: The Trial of Viviane Ansalem
Crossing Delancey

June 2022
Maktub
​The Resistance Banker

July 2022
​
The Levys of Monticello
Rose

August 2022

Tiger Within
The Fourth Window--Amos Oz
,
Back in Berlin

September 2022

#Anne Frank Parallel Stories
West Side Story (2021)


October 2022
Ken Burns Documentary: "The U.S. and the Holocaust

November 2022
Tango Shalom
Flee

December 2022
The Other Story
Never Stop Dreaming

January 2023
The Automat
Children of a Lesser God

February 2023
The Optimists
​Avalon

March 2023

Image of Victory
The Kind Words

April 2023
13: The Musical
Persepolis

May 2023 - selections from the AAJFF

Narrow Bridge
Lost Transport

June 2023 - selections from the AAJFF

Farewell, Mr. Haffmann
​Shadow of the Day

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​July
Armageddon Time
Waiting for Guffman

August
Hallalujah: Leonard Cohen, A Song, A Story
​Tel Aviv on Fire

September
Golda
Munich

​
October 
Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
The Booksellers

November

​Are You There, God?  It’s Me, Margaret
The Zookeeper's Wife

December - No Meeting

January 2024
Maestro
The 
Cakemaker

February 2024
Jews of the Wild West
​The Art of Silence

​March 2024

The Apartment
My Italian Secret 

April 2024
​
Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives
My Father's Violin


May 2024
Rabbi on the Block
​Without Precedent

June 2024

Children of Nobody
Home

July 2024

One Life
Ushpizin

August 2024

Remembering Gene Wilder

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