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24 Cards in this Set
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Match Point
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Dir - Woody AllenJonathon Rhys Meyer
Scarlett Johansson Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode |
Seen With - Block, Nathanson, Randall - Julian's birthday
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Capote
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Dir - Bennett Miller
Philip Seymour Hoffman |
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Casanova
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Dir - Lasse Hallestrom
Heath Ledger Siena Miller |
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Brokeback Mountain
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Dir - Ang Lee
Heath Ledger Jake Gyllenhaal |
Seen with Jennifer only
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Good night & Good luck
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Dir George Clooney
David Strathairn Robert Downey Jnr |
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Walk the Line
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Dir James Mangold
Reece Witherspoon Joaquin Phoenix |
Johnny Cash & June Carter
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Zug um Zug Budapest 1944
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Hungarian Jewish leader Kastner, smuggled 1600 Jews from Nazis - accused after was of collaboration, aquitted at trial in Israel and then murdered.
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Jewish Film Festival 2005
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Fateless
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Hungary - autobiographical - Imre Kertesz at 14 sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Survives thro'help of many people. Returns to Budapest after the war.
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Jewish Film Festival 2005
(Imre Kertesz is a famous writer) |
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Live & Become
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A young African boy joins thousands of Falashas (Ethiopian Jews) leaving for Israel. Not Jewish but dying mother entrusts him to a young female Falasha. Brought up by young liberal French Sephardi family in Israel. Lives with the terrible secret of not truly being Jewish.
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Jewish Film Festival 2005
Brilliant movie |
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Radical Zionists in the Holy Land
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Doc. about extremish W Bank Jews and follows investigations and surveillance of activities particularly of a clandestine cell apprehended about to bomb an Arab school.
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Jewish Film Festival 2005
Religious fervour gone wrong. |
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Metallic Blues
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Israeli pair go to Germany to sell a classic Mercedes Benz second hand. Terrific actors.
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Jewish Film Festival 2005 Hilarious comedy. Great fun.
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The Man who Loved Haugesund
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Doco about a Polish Jew, Rabinowitz - 1911 moves to small town of H in Norway. Built largest department store in Scandanavian pre-war history. Prescient and articulate activist vs Nasizm, he was top of the Nazi hitlist when they invaded Norway in 1940.
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Jewish Film Festival 2005
Went into hiding on an island, but couldn't resist communicating with his shop, and this led to his capture. |
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Another Road Home
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Danae Alon tracks down the family of Musa Obeidallah in NY. Musa was her babysitter in Israel when she was growing up.
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Jewish Film Festival 2005
By Danae Alon, daughter of Amos Elon famous Israeli author. |
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Everything is Illuminated
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Jonathon,introverted young NY Jewish writer travels to Ukraine to locate Trochimbad, his grand father's shtetl and the woman who saved him from the Nazis. Enlists help of Alex a punkish youth and his anti-semitic grandfather. Very funny with some tragic, tense and exciting moments.
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Jewish Film Festival 2005 Jonathon played by Elijah Wood (Lord of the Rings)
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Whisky
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Uruguay. Jacobo Koller runs a small factory, with a female supervisor, Martha, and 2 workers. He is a bachelor and gets Martha to act as his wife during the visit of his estranged, rich brother for their father's consecration.
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Jewish Film Festival 2005
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How much do you love me?
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Bernard Campan, Gerard Depardieu & Monica Bellucci
Fr comedy - Monica, a prostitute, agrees to live with a man(BC)who says he has won the lottery |
Seen with Philips & Block.
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Inside Man
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Dir Spike Lee
Denzel Washington, Clive owen, Jodie Foster. Bank robbery |
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The Squid & the Whale
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Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Anna Paquin
Breakdown of a marraige and effect on 2 sons. (AP plays the elder son's girlfriend) |
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March of the Penguins
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Narrated by Morgan Freeman
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The World's Fastest Indian
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Anthony Hopkins
NZ, Burt Munro's record setting race in Salt Lake, Utah & efforts to get there. |
Seen at Easter with Philips, Block, Blooms
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Alain de Botton
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How Proust can change your life
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Draws out from Proust's writings - about friendship, reading, suffering, and adds his own commentary
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Lynn Freed
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Reading, Writing and Leaving Home. Life on the page
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Bobby's cousin writes essays about writing, her home in Dbn,
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Alain de Botton
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How Proust can change your life
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Draws out from Proust's writings - about friendship, reading, suffering, and adds his own commentary
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Lynn Freed
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Reading, Writing and Leaving Home. Life on the page
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Bobby's cousin writes essays about writing, her home in Dbn,
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