{"id":17869,"date":"2018-05-07T13:49:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T17:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=17869"},"modified":"2018-05-07T13:52:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T17:52:28","slug":"tjff-2018-the-ancient-law-1923-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=17869","title":{"rendered":"TJFF 2018: The Ancient Law (1923) Live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17872\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TJFF2018_poster-732x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TJFF2018_poster-732x1024.jpg 732w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TJFF2018_poster-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TJFF2018_poster-768x1074.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TJFF2018_poster.jpg 852w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This past Thursday marked the start of the <a href=\"https:\/\/tjff.com\/\">Toronto Jewish Film Festival<\/a>, and I\u2019ll be integrating select reviews into this week\u2019s video offering, starting with this past Sunday\u2019s Canadian Premiere of <a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=17868\"><strong>The Ancient Law<\/strong><\/a> (1923), a rare German film recently restored and touring select cities with live score performance by composer-performers Donald Sosin and Alicia Svigals.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17871\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AncientLaw_poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"268\" \/>Pretty much the inspiration for <strong>The Jazz Singer<\/strong> (1927), E.A. Dupont\u2019s film features strong performances, beautiful production details, and a superb score by the pair that really should be experienced live before Flicker Alley\u2019s Blu-ray-DVD combo is released in June.<\/p>\n<p>Svigals\u2019 solos are incredible, mining the already affecting drama about a son who literally escapes the locked house of his rabbi father, and in spite of great success on the Viennese stage, struggles with suppressing his hunger for kinship, culture, and family affection.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviews of works currently screening at TJFF 2018 begins with The Ancient Law \/ Das alte Gesetz (1923), a rare German film supported by a live score performance with pianist Donald Sosin and  Klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[5655,5656,5657,5654,5653,2562,2563,4304,5556,5652],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AncientLaw_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-4Ed","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17869"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17886,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17869\/revisions\/17886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}