Celluloid Diaries: November 2015

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Jewish movie night recipes

most popular jewish movie night recipes

A guest post by Karen Malena

Being Italian, I’ve not had much call for Jewish movie night recipes. If it doesn’t have sauce on it, anise oil, or ricotta cheese, then I probably haven’t made it.

Recently, though, while writing about a man who finds his Jewish ancestry, I’ve done a little research on all things Hebrew. For instance, did you know that Chanukah is celebrated for eight nights? The children play spin the dreidel and adults play it as a gambling game. The prize is candy or “gelt,” an old Jewish coin, now chocolate. The dreidel is a four-sided top with the Jewish letters: Nun, Gimel, He and Shin on each side. The letters stand for “Ness Gadol Hayah Sham--A great miracle happened there.”

Thursday, November 5, 2015

Razor Reel Film Festival 2015

Next Monday, I'll be hosting two Q&A sessions with filmmakers at the Razor Reel Flanders Film Festival 2015 in Bruges, Belgium.

The first Q&A is with writer/director Abner Pastoll for his movie Road Games.

Road Games takes place in sun drenched rural France where a hitchhiking duo becomes inexplicably entangled with a mysterious married couple and a local road kill collector.

The movie will be shown at 8 pm and the Q&A with Abner Pastoll will take place after the screening. 

Here's the trailer. 

road games 2015

Next up is the horror movie Excess Flesh at 10 pm, followed by a Q&A with director Patrick Kennelly.

In Excess Flesh, Jill violently imprisons her roommate Jennifer in their apartment in a twisted attempt to bring them closer together. 

Have a look at the trailer.


excess flesh
Previous Q&A session at Razor Reel:

Razor Reel 2014 / Razor Reel 2013 / Razor Reel 2012 /  Razor Reel 2011