THE RIVIERA CINEMA

Claude Lanzmann

located in Farmington Hills is your
neighborhood movie theatre where you can
enjoy all of Hollywood’s great new releases.
Parking is convenient and easy.

Come relax in an overstuffed recliner while
enjoying a handcrafted pizza, delicious hot
buttered popcorn, and a cocktail or soft drink.

Ireland’s third most famous Jewish son.
First is Chaim Herzog, who grew up
on the same street and played with my
mother. Then there’s Leopold Bloom
from Ulysses — and me. The Irish Jewish
community is only about 1,500 to 2,000
people. It’s grown much smaller and
that’s sad.” (Chaim Herzog, son of the
chief rabbi of Ireland, went on to be a top
Israeli general and president of Israel).
Milchan, a multi-billionaire, was
born in Israel. He made his first for-
tune as the head of an Israeli chemical
company and has done very well in
Hollywood, too. On the other side of the
wealth spectrum is Laszlo Nemes, who
couldn’t have made Son of Saul (star-
ring Geza Rohrig), about a concentra-
tion camp inmate trying to bury the
body of a young boy, without the help
of a Hungarian government film fund.
Nemes says about Saul: “I made this film
to talk about this lost [Jewish] civiliza-
tion and this lost world, and also because
I’m angry that this happened, and
Europe never really understood that.”
You might be familiar with
Emmanuel Lubezki. He’s been Oscar-

nominated eight times for his cinema-
tography and won the last two years
(Gravity and Birdman). His work on
the 1992 Mexican film Like Water for
Chocolate garnered some American
attention. Still he struggled in America
until Ben Stiller hired him to film the
1994 hit Reality Bites.

JUST ONE MORE
I recognized the name of one technical
category nominee, Arthur Max, 69,
from an old profile in a Jewish paper.
Max, a production designer, is nomi-
nated for The Martian, his third nomina-
tion for production design. His first was
for Gladiator (2000), which was partially
filmed in Jerusalem. In 2005, he said
about filming Gladiator, “People told me
not to go almost everywhere, but I went
everywhere. Some of the Old City was
closed off for security reasons, but I went
to the Western Wall. And I stood on top
of the Jaffa Gate, and I looked out over
what to me always had been a name; and
suddenly I felt connected to my heritage,
a close connection to all the Jewish his-
tory I had studied as a bar mitzvah.”

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For showtimes and tickets, please visit therivieracinema.com

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Join us on Februar y 28th at the Maple
Theater to watch the Academy Awards!

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“As a filmmaker,
[growing
up Jewish in
Ireland] gives
me a kind of
unique outsider's
perspective on
the country, even
though I feel
deeply Irish.”
— Lenny Abrahamson

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