Film
Akhmed and the Atomic Matzo Balls: A Novel of International Intrigue, Pork-Crazed Termites, and Motherhood, is a new novel from Gary Buslik. The tale is demented, uncouth and fun. It’s a novel alike no other and it is all kinds of crazy.
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Movies opening this week: Disconnect, Oblivion, In the House, Love Sick Love and Rob Zombie’s The Lords of Salem. In Disconnect Jason Bateman plays a serious role and does it well. Kristin Scott Thomas is in the French film In the House. Even Morgan Freeman can’t save Oblivion.
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Matthew McConaughey stars in Mud opening April 26 in NYC. McConaughey’s movies include, “Killer Joe,” “The Lincoln Lawyer,” “Tropic Thunder,” “Fool’s Gold,” “We Are Marshall,” “Amistad,” “Contact,” and “A Time to Kill.”
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“The Company You Keep” stars Robert Redford (director) as Jim Grant, a former Weather Underground activist who is on the lam. Shia LaBeouf plays journalist Ben Shepard who uncovers Grant’s identity. It’s a political thriller with a slew of top actors including Susan Sarandon, Richard Jenkins, Chris Cooper, Nick Nolte, Sam Elliott, Stanley Tucci and Julie Christie. “The Company You Keep” is playing now in New York City
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‘No Place on Earth’ is the previously untold story of 38 Ukrainian Jews who survived Hitler by hiding in caves for 511 days. The four survivors who star in the film are Saul Stermer, 92, Sam Stermer (the “baby” brother), 86, and their nieces Sonia Dodyk, 79, and Sima Dodyk, 74, whose mother is Henia Stermer, Saul and Sam’s older sister.
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Interview: Four holocaust survivors star in the documentary, ‘No Place on Earth’ about the Stermer family that hid in caves in the Ukraine for 551 days. Opened this weekend. Chris Nicola, Janet Tobias.
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4 Holocaust survivors tell their story. They hid in caves in the Ukraine for 18 months. “No Place on Earth” opens this week on Friday, April 5, 2013 at Film Society Lincoln Center, 144 West 65th Street. NYC. Rated PG-13. 83 minutes.
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Jeff Bridges, who has been dedicated to stamping out hunger for the past 30 years, is now starring in a powerful documentary, “A Place at the Table.” The film is brought to you by Participant Media, a company with an amazing track record of building social action campaigns and producing films like “Waiting for Superman” and “Inconvenient Truth.”
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Jeff Bridges talks about hunger in America and the new documentary “A Place at the Table” which proposes solutions to this huge societal problem. There is enough to eat but things need to change within the political system to make the food available to everyone.
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In 1976, Pryor earned $25,000 for the movie, “Car Wash.” In 1983, he earned $4,000,000 for “Superman III.” In Pryor’s words, “I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst. In other words, I had a life.”
New York City reporter, Dorri Olds, sat down for a candid interview with Richard Pryor, Jr.