Please join us for the first annual
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Thursday, June 10
Aaron DeRoy Theatre • D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building • Jewish Community Center
Sunday, June 13-Wednesday, June 16
Star Theatre, Southfield
See top international Jewish films: features, documentaries and short subjects.
Experience Jewish culture around the world through film.
Film topics
Romance, the Holocaust, contemporary Israel, Jewish life in America,
Jewish food, the Jewish Brigade and Jewish Hollywood
Schedule of Screenings
Thursday
Sunday
June 10
June 13
Noun DeRoy Theatre
JCC West Bloomfield
Free preview of New local
documentary- 2 p.m.
Gaperation to Generation
Speakers*
Sue Marx & David Techrier,
Producers
5 p.m.
Monday Tuesday Wednesday
June 14
June 15
Star Theatre, Southfield
5 p.m.
5 p.m.
5 p.m.
1. My Mother's
First Olympics
2. Hitchhikers
1. Divine Food:
All of It
Speaker:
6 p.m.
Rabbi Elimefech
Silberberg
8 p.rn.
In Our
Own Hands
100 years in Kosher Deli Trade
2. Odessa Steps
3. Mahjongg:
Jody Podolsky,
Producer/Director
The Tiles That Bind
Patron reception
4. The Personals-
Improvisations on Romance
in the Oda? Years
A Life Apart:
Hasidism in America
Speaker
une 16
7:30 p.m.
Soleil
Speaker.
Terry Lawson,
Detroit Free Press
film critic
8 p.m.
8 p.m.
1. Human Remains
H014400diSM:
Jews, Movies Er the
2. A Letter
American Dream
Without Words
Inbyductory Remarks:
Speaker.
Lisa Lewenz,
director
8 p.m.
Autumn Sun
Speaker:
Rabbi
Leonardo Bitran
Sandy Schreier,
7.1 personality/author
Tickets $6 general admission, $5 seniors • Series general admission $45, series seniors $35
For ticket information, call the Jewish Center's Jewish Life and Learning Department, (248) 661-7649.
Sponsored by a generous endowment from the Milton Marwil Family in memory of Lenore Marwil
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5/21
1999
88 Detroit Jewish News
sionary, but I didn't plan that. I just
play what makes me feel good. And I
like to hear some chords and
melodies," Kravitz said.
"People talk about what's new and
taking things far out, and I'm like,
`Man, I haven't heard anybody take it
further out than Miles or Jimi
[Hendrix], and that was years ago.'
But people don't understand that.
"That was the time for that kind of
exploration and freedom and soul,
and this is not a soulful time we live
-\
in. Look at the music in the 1950s
and '60s; it was fresh and very young,
and people were discovering there
could be a freedom. The times really
reflect the music. Right now, it's
about quickness, instant gratification
and technology. And that's what we
have, musically. People don't take the
time to learn to play an instrument
anymore. Why bother? They can take
a box, and make some sound."
But mention the R-word in the
same breath as his music, and Kravitz
begins to seethe.
"Am I retro? That's absolute B.S.," he
bristled. "I live in the now. But why
should I follow what's going on now? I
get called retro because I use real instru-
ments. My new album [5] has a touch
of technology, because I wanted it.
"But I ask people: 'If I hit a drum, or
play a guitar or an organ, what is old
about that?' And they can't answer. It's a
fashion perception. There is nothing new
"What's new about techno? That
stuff was going on in the 1960s, it just
evolved. What makes something new,
or makes it someone's own thing, is
the musical collage that you put
together, and how. Nobody is invent-
ing any new rhythms or chords, so
they should shut up.
"People calling me 'old-fashioned;
that's nonsense. I don't believe that for a
second, [but] they can say what they
want. Saying that the old stuff doesn't
hold up — like Mozart doesn't stand
up? — give me a break. Music is music.
It's expression. People take music too
seriously, in a fashion sense. It's an
expression; you bang on some [stuff_
and make some sounds. People have
gone too far in labeling what's 'old' and
what's not ... It's all experience." 17
Lenny Kravitz, with special guests
the Black Crowes, pop/hip-hop
eu
performer Everlast and newcomer
Cree Summer, performs 6 p.m.
Saturday, May 22, at Pine Knob.
$45 and $37.50 pavilion/$20
lawn. (248) 645-6666.