THE RAPE OF EUROPA, OCHBERG’S ORPHANS Screening
Ochberg’s Orphans (right) and The Rape of Europa will be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 27th annual "Contemporary Documentaries" series on Wednesday, April 1, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission is free.
Directed by Jon Blair and produced by Blair, Paul Goldin and Georgina Townsley, Ochberg’s Orphans tells the story of a South African businessman’s efforts to save 300,000 Jewish Russian children who had been orphaned in anti-Semitic attacks during the Russian Revolution and ensuing civil war.
Directed and produced by Richard Berge, Nicole Newnham and Bonni Cohen, The Rape of Europa depicts the theft and destruction — [...]
by Andre Soares | March 24, 2009
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Tags: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Anti-Semitism, Bonni Cohen, Contemporary Documentaries, Documentaries, Jon Blair, Los Angeles Screenings, Nicole Newnham, Ochberg's Orphans, Political Movies, Richard Berge, The Rape of Europa, World War II
Joseph I. Breen: Anti-Semite?
Thomas Doherty in The Forward:
"’These Jews seem to think of nothing but money making and sexual indulgence,’ fumed Joseph I. Breen in a letter to the Rev. Wilfrid Parsons, S.J., editor of the Jesuit weekly America. The year was 1932, and the hot-tempered Irish Catholic, lately summoned to Hollywood, Calif., by motion picture czar Will H. Hays to convert a reprobate medium, was raging at the moguls who blocked his missionary work. ‘People whose daily morals would not be tolerated in the toilet of a pest house hold the good jobs out here and wax fat on it,’ he marveled. ‘Ninety-five percent of these folks are Jews of an Eastern European lineage. They are, probably, the scum of the scum [...]
by Andre Soares | December 14, 2007
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Tags: Anti-Semitism, Censorship, Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration, Jane Russell, Joseph I. Breen, Production Code, The Outlaw, Thomas Doherty, Wilfrid Parsons
THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST Is an R-Rated DVD Hit
With the not inconsiderable help from churches and Christian groups across the United States, Mel Gibson’s controversial biblical film, The Passion of the Christ, sold 4.1 million DVD copies after only one day in stores, an impressive figure though hardly a record-breaking one.
Finding Nemo retains the overall record for one-day DVD sales, with approximately 8 million copies sold, while Spider-Man holds the one-day record for live-action movies, with 7 million.
But that hasn’t stopped Fox Home Entertainment from heralding The Passion as both the best-selling R-rated film and the best-selling non-English-language film of all time.
Starring Jim Caviezel as Jesus Christ, The Passion is thus far the second highest-grossing film of 2004 at the U.S./Canada box office. With US$370 [...]
by Andre Soares | September 4, 2004
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Tags: Anti-Semitism, DVDs, Finding Nemo, Jim Caviezel, Mel Gibson, Religion, Religious Movies, The Passion of the Christ
