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Saturday, December 6
THE BURIAL SOCIETY
Canada, 2002, 35mm
93 minutes
English
Director: Nicholas Racz
Saturday, December 6th, 5:30 pm at the Aaron and Cecile
Goldman Theater. Buy
tickets now for this screening.
also screening Thursday,
December 4th, 9:10 pm at the Aaron and Cecile Goldman
Theater
When two million dollars goes missing
from the Jewish mob's secret account, Sheldon Kasner, a nebbishy
accountant living a mediocre existence, finds himself being
dangled upside down from a bridge. Sheldon makes it out alive,
but to elude his pursuers, he seeks refuge with a small-town
Chevrah Kadisha ("Burial Society"), a trio of old devout Jewish
men who prepare bodies before burial. The amiable old-timers
eventually initiate him into their world, but Sheldon soon realizes
he may not be as safe as he'd assumed. An amusing suspense thriller
lined with plot twists and double crosses, The Burial
Society will have viewers doubting themselves at every
turn.
Co-sponsored by the Canadian Embassy Special
Guest: Allan Rich, Actor
MANHOOD
USA, 2003,
35mm
82 minutes
English Director: Bobby Roth
Saturday, December 6th, 7:40 pm at the Aaron and Cecile
Goldman Theater. Buy
tickets now for this screening.
also screening Sunday, December
7th, 5:45 pm at the Aaron and Cecile Goldman Theater
Pioneering independent filmmaker Bobby Roth (Jack the
Dog) breaks new ground in Jewish family drama with a
story that brings together three generations of Jewish men.
Jack (Nestor Carbonnel) is a reformed womanizer and single dad,
raising his son while working as a party photographer. His routine
of fatherhood is interrupted when he becomes embroiled in the
lives of his newly separated sister (Janeane Garofalo), her
stoner son, and her shyster husband (John Ritter in one of his
final roles). Jack's life is further complicated by a therapist
who is having serious issues with transference and his father's
relationship with one of his old flames. Manhood
is a funny, unsentimental and brutally honest tale, populated
by memorable characters.
Special Guest: Bobby Roth, Director
MENDY
USA, 2003,
Beta SP
93 minutes
English and Yiddish with English subtitles
Director: Adam Samuel Vardy
Saturday, December 6th, 10:00 pm at the Aaron and Cecile
Goldman Theater. Buy
tickets now for this screening.
Mendy has just left the insular Satmar Hasidic community and
his life is in freefall. Unable to make himself stay in the
ultra-orthodox world and lacking the skills to adapt easily
to the secular one, he crashes with Yankel, who left the community
a few years earlier. Yankel draws Mendy into his hedonistic
lifestyle which revolves around sex and drugs. The only thing
stopping Mendy's slide from one extreme to the other is Yankel's
roommate Bianca, a Brazilian woman who offers him a different
view of the secular world. Mendy is a gritty film
that pulls no punches, with a script that was co-written by
a former Satmar who also wrote the Yiddish dialogue.
Co-sponsored by Yiddish of Greater Washington
Special Guest: Adam Samuel Vardy, Director
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