Arts & Entertainment
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Films At A Glance from page 45
aim at anti-Jewish laws and saved the lives of
thousands.
Commerce Twp.: (following Raoul
Wallenberg): Tuesday, May 1, at 2 p.m.
Raoul Wallenberg: One Person Can Make
a Difference: Emmy Award-winning filmmak-
er Noah Ovshinsky and the Raoul Wallenberg
Society of Ann Arbor put together this brief
film about the man who risked his own life
every day to save so many Jews during the
Holocaust, only to disappear in the hands of
the Soviets.
Commerce Twp: (preceding Ich bin Jude! ich
bin Jude!): Tuesday, May 1, at 2 p.m.
Ann Arbor (preceding Sophie Scholl: The
Final Days): Thursday, May 10, at 5 p.m.
Free Zone: Jordan is home to a free zone,
where goods are traded without regard to
customs, taxes, politics or religion. Enter
a New Yorker named Rebecca (Natalie
Portman), who hitches a ride with an Israeli
cab driver on her way to the Zone to collect
$30,000.
Commerce Twp.: Tuesday, May 1, at 5 p.m.
Birmingham: Thursday, May 3, at 8 p.m.
51 Birch Street: Soon after his mother's
death, filmmaker Doug Block receives
astounding news. His father, who had been
married (happily, he believed) to his mother
for 54 years, is moving to Florida to live with
his secretary, Kitty, from 40 years ago. This is
just the beginning of Block's adventure.
Birmingham: Tuesday, May 1, at 5 p.m.
Flint: Wednesday, May 9, at 8 p.m.
The First Time I Was 20: It's the 1960s,
and 16-year-old Hannah feels like the ugly
duckling in her French-Jewish family. Her
dream is to be chosen to play in her school's
all-male touring jazz band. When her dream
comes true, her troubles begin.
Commerce Twp. (following Matisyahu):
Tuesday, May 1, at 8 p.m.
Birmingham (following Matisyahu): Thursday,
May 3, at 5 p.m.
Flint (following The Tribe): Sunday, May 6, at
7 p.m.
Ann Arbor (following Matisyahu): Monday,
May 7, at 8 p.m.
Windsor: Wednesday, May 9, at 8 p.m.
Matisyahu: He was born Matthew Miller,
but today he's known as Matisyahu. He's
Orthodox, he's reggae, he's hip-hop and he's
about as popular as it gets in modern music.
Commerce Twp. (preceding The First Time I
Was 20): Tuesday, May 1, at 8 p.m.
Birmingham (preceding The First Time I Was
20): Thursday, May 3, at 5 p.m.
Ann Arbor (preceding The First Time I Was
20): Monday, May 7, at 8 p.m.
Whisky Man: This story of the "baron" of
the famous Bronfman whisky family takes you
behind the scenes, telling previously unknown
secrets of their privileged, though stilted,
lives.
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Commerce Twp. (preceding The Boys of
Buchenwald): Wednesday, May 2, at 2 p.m.
The Boys of Buchenwald: They survived
the horrors of World War II, but hundreds of
boys had absolutely nothing at the war's end.
From the pieces of their lost childhoods, they
built a new family and a bridge of hope to the
future. Featuring Elie Wiese!.
Commerce Twp. (following Whisky Man):
Wednesday, May 2, at 2 p.m.
Toots Shor: Bigger Than Life: "Toots" was
a gambler and a fighter who started out as
a bouncer for mob-run speakeasies. Along
the way, he made a lot of friends with sports
and show-business personalities. In 1939, he
opened a restaurant in New York that became
home to the country's most illustrious ath-
letes, writers, politicians and mobsters. A
"Jew in America" story.
Commerce Twp.: Wednesday, May 2, at 5 p.m.
Sentenced to Marriage: According to
Jewish law, a woman must obtain a get from
her husband before she can be divorced. But
what happens to women whose husbands
refuse to provide their wives with this critical
document?
Commerce Twp.: Wednesday, May 2, at 8
p.m. (with discussion)
Ann Arbor: Tuesday, May 8, at 2 p.m. (with
discussion)
Council of the Gods: This East German doc-
umentary tells the story, based on testimony
from the Nuremberg Trials, about the collabo-
ration between international corporations and
Nazi scientists whose research contributed to
the deaths of millions.
Commerce Twp.: Thursday, May 3, at 2 p.m.
Moshe Safdie: The Power of
Architecture: Canadian-Israeli architect
Moshe Safdie was Louis Kahn's apprentice
before coming to Jerusalem, where he rede-
signed the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial
Museum and is working on the Mamilla dis-
trict, the former no-man's land separating
east and west Jerusalem. His hope is that the
project will bring together Jews and Arabs.
Commerce Twp.: Thursday, May 3, at 5 p.m.
Windsor: Wednesday, May 9, at 5 p.m.
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days: This true
story tells of a young girl who refused to give
in to the Nazis. Sophie Scholl and a handful
of students formed the White Rose, which
was outspoken in its criticism of Hitler. Many
members, including Sophie herself, were
eventually caught and tried by Hitler's courts.
Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign
Language Film.
Birmingham: Monday, April 30, at 5 p.m.
Commerce Twp.: Thursday, May 3, at 8 p.m.
Windsor: Wednesday, May 9, at 2 p.m.
Ann Arbor (following Raoul Wallenberg):
Thursday, May 10, at 5 p.m.
Crimes and Misdemeanors: Martin Landau
stars as a dentist desperate to end an affair
Above: Paper Dolls: A
film about transsexual
Filipinos who are for-
eign workers in Israel
- male caregivers by
day, cross-dressing
female impersonators
by night.
Right: Moshe
Safdie: The Power of
Architecture: Bringing
together Jews and
Arabs in Israel.
- but, as with all Woody Allen films, the story
quickly becomes a complicated, funny and
sad tale of the twists and turns in life. Also
starring Anjelica Houston, Claire Bloom, Alan
Alda and Jerry Orbach.
Birmingham: Wednesday, May 2, at 5 p.m.
Commerce 71vp.: Saturday, May 5, at 9:45
p.m.
First Basket: Who knew that the NBA's first
points ever were scored by Jewish power
forward Ossie Schectman in 1946 in a game
that pitted the New York Knicks against the
Toronto Huskies. Take a trip back in time with
all your favorite Jewish basketball stars.
Commerce Twp.: Sunday, May 6, at 10 a.m.
(includes bagel brunch at 9:30 a.m.; call
(248) 432-5461 to reserve a spot)
Ann Arbor: Tuesday, May 8, at 8 p.m.
Little Heroes: A group of four children
learns about life as they take a trip through
the Israeli wilderness. The team: a boy deal-
ing with his father's death, a Russian girl who
believes she is telepathic, a mentally chal-
lenged boy and a child who has never found
his place on the kibbutz where he lives.
Commerce Twp.: Sunday, May 6, 12:30 p.m.
Blues by the Beach: Mike's Place was a
popular hangout in Tel Aviv. On April 30,
2003, Mike's was rocked by a terrorist attack.
Asif Hanif entered the room, sophisticated
explosives in his hollowed-out Koran. Fifty-
three people were killed or injured.
Commerce Twp.: Sunday, May 6, at 3 p.m.
Ann Arbor (preceding Dark Night): Monday,
May 7, at 2 p.m.
Dark Night: During a return to their post,
three Israeli soldiers run into a deadly
ambush. While escaping, they commandeer
a Palestinian couple's home to wait for their
rescuers. Lack of communication breeds
hostility until a small detail helps them find
common ground.
Ann Arbor (following Blues by the Beach):
Monday, May 7, at 2 p.m.
Withdrawal from Gaza: In the summer of
2005, the Israeli government uprooted 8,000
Jewish citizens in Gaza as Palestinians moved
in. Soldiers and settlers were suddenly on
opposite sides in one of the bitterest confron-
tations in the nation's history.
Commerce Twp.: Sunday, May 6, at 5 p.m.
King of Beggars: Inside a 16th-century
Polish cemetery, two Jewish social outcasts
are married. The man is Fishke, a lame bath-
house attendant; his bride is a blind woman
who just wandered into the village. Soon,
Fishke will learn that his new wife is not blind
and really a member of a group of Jewish
brigands out to rob the town.
Birmingham: Tuesday, May 1, at 8 p.m.
Commerce Twp.: Sunday, May 6, at 8 p.m.
Windsor: Tuesday, May 8, at 2 p.m.
Ann Arbor: Thursday, May 10, at 8 p.m.
The Choices of Irma Lindheim: Irma
Lindheim lived in a mansion in Glen Cove,
Long Island, in the early 20th century. She
was a wife and mother but also a volunteer in
the American Army during World War I. Then
she enrolled as a rabbinical student, became
an outspoken Zionist and was named presi-
dent of Hadassah. And that's just the begin-
ning of her story.
Commerce Twp. (preceding And The Gates
Opened): Monday, May 7, at 2 p.m.
And the Gates Opened: Women in the
Rabbinate: In 1972, Sally Priesand became
the first female rabbi (in the Reform move-
ment). What is it like now for a girl who wants
to grow up and be a rabbi, and how do other
Jews feel about women rabbis?
Commerce "Av. (following The Choices of
Irma Lindheim): Monday, May 7 at 2 p.m.
Stolen Summer: From the Matt Damon/Ben
Affleck Project Greenlight, Stolen Summer
is the story of two friends. One little boy is
Catholic, the other is Jewish. What they will
face together is heartbreaking.
Commerce Twp.: Monday, May 7, at 5 p.m.