(UN)Orthodox Podcast: Jews & Friends Talk About News, Arts & Other Stuff
(Un)Orthodox. (2015-present). Unrated. Archive: https://www.tabletmag.com/tag/unorthodox Subscribe through iTunes Last Saturday, a anti-semite walked into Tree of Life synagogue during services with an AK-15 and murdered eleven–a minyan plus one–Jews at morning prayers, while shouting “All Jews must die.” The (Un)Orthodox Podcast team went to Squirrel Hill in Pittsburgh PA the next day to talk, listen, pray,...
The Princess of Montpensier
2010. 139 minutes. unrated. In the midst of the Catholic/Protestant wars of the 16th century, a woman marries against her wishes and tries to put her husband’s cousin out of her mind; she’s successful until they encounter one another at Court. I love period films with focused attention to detail. I’m a sucker for unrequited love. And, okay, I might also have a thing for movies where girls are forced to marry against their will, and...
Loving Vincent
2017. 94 minutes. Rated PG-13. “I feel absolutely calm and in a normal state. That’s what he writes me, six weeks before he is dead. How does a man go from being absolutely calm to suicidal in six weeks?” I am not unique, it seems, in naming Vincent van Gogh (portrayed by Robert Gulaczyk) as my favorite artist. Opening with a gut-shot van Gogh stumbling into a local inn, the world’s first oil-painted feature-length film uses the...
Super
2010. 96 minutes. Rated R. “You don’t butt in line! You don’t sell drugs! You don’t molest little children! You don’t profit on the misery of others! The rules were set a long time ago!” A line cook transforms himself into a homemade superhero, the Crimson Bolt, to rescue his fallen-off-the-wagon alcoholic/addict wife from a life of stripping and whoring. Along the way, he doles out vengeance to drug dealers, child molesters, and line...
Lady Jane
1986. 136 minutes. Rated PG-13. “The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible. At there arriving, she is assured of bliss, and forever dwells in paradise.” Married at 16. Queen for 9 days. Beheaded for treason at age 17. And you thought your teenage years were rough! Protestant Lady Jane (Helena Bonham Carter), cousin to the ailing King Edward, is but a pawn in her parent’s political games when the Duke of...
