"So you are a Jewish nun," says Wanda Gruz (Agata Kulesza) on sizing up her niece Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska) in Pawel Pawlikowski's luminous black-and-white drama Ida. The audience shares in Sister Anna's astoundment as she learns that her birth name was Ida Lebenstein.
This cowled waif we first meet adorning and adoring a Christ figure, a Jew? Never in her 18 years of coming up in the convent did such a thought ever gefilte her fair head. But now, in wintry Poland of the ea...
By Maria Esteves – February 1, 2014
The 23rd New York Jewish Film Festival 2014 (NYJFF 2014) Closing Night New York Premiere of IDA, directed by Pawel Pawlikowski commenced Thursday, January 23, at the Walter Reade Theater in Lincoln Center. A special Q&A session immediately followed with director Pawlikowski moderated by director of cinematheque programming, Dennis Lim, Film Society of Lincoln Center.
IDA is a provocative and superb coming of age film set in Poland in the 1960s abo...
By Maria Esteves – February 1, 2014
The 23rd New York Jewish Film Festival 2014 (NYJFF 2014) Closing Night New York Premiere of IDA, directed by Pawel Pawlikowski commenced Thursday, January 23, at the Walter Reade Theater in Lincoln Center. A special Q&A session with director Pawlikowski moderated by director of cinematheque programming, Dennis Lim, Film Society of Lincoln Center, immediately followed the premiere. IDA in Theaters May 2014. View Trailer
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By Maria Esteves - December 30, 2013
The 23rd Annual 2014 New York Jewish Film Festival (NYJFF14) presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Jewish Museum will be held at the Walter Reade Theater in Lincoln Center, January 8–23, 2014. This year’s Opening and Closing Premieres are FRIENDS FROM FRANCE (Les Interdits), directed by Anne Weil and Philippe Kotlarski, Wednesday, January 8 and IDA, directed by Pawel Pawlikowski, Thursday, January 23.
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The biggest annual film event in North America kicks off September 8 as the Toronto International Film Festival celebrates its 36th year. Toronto always delivers an extravaganza of cinematic fare sufficient to overwhelm the most diehard of film fans-- or film geeks as the case may be. And this year should prove to be no exception, with (at last count) 268 features and 68 short films scheduled to be screened from 65 countries.Although the majority of media attention will be focused on red carpet ...
