From the forties to the seventies, several generations of comedians worked the hotels at the Catskills (known as the Borscht Belt) to a tough crowd of largely Jewish vacationers wanting a lively yet familial atmosphere far away from the clamour of big cities like New York City…
Veteran journalist David L. Lewis makes his feature-length debut with this extensive documentary on Nat Hentoff, a journalist known primarily for his dual outlets – an astute writer of jazz, and defender of the First Amendment and combatant against social injustice…
There’s a genuine lightness to this otherwise grim tale of an ophthalmologist who reluctantly agrees to take the advice of his street-smart brother Jack and kill an obsessed lover Dolores bent on exposing an illicit relationship and embezzling…
Detailed interview with a reflective Claire Bloom, actress of stage, screen, and classic TV productions…
Detailed background and chronicle of the U.S. Army’s First Motion Picture Unit, headed by John Ford and aided by fellow directors George Stevens and Samuel Fuller who together documented the D-Day landings, and the liberation of Europe and Nazi concentration camps…
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