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menorah: arts ∙ culture ∙ education ∙ adult programs<br />
Kathryn Bernheimer | director, Menorah, *B’Yahad* Maimonides | (303) 998-1021 | kathryn@boulderjcc.org<br />
visit us online at www.boulderjcc.org for full program information and details.<br />
March is Jewish Arts Month at the <strong>Boulder</strong> <strong>JCC</strong><br />
Film<br />
Series<br />
MARcH 6<br />
“the rape of europa”<br />
With talk back by Cu Art History<br />
Professor Kira van Lil<br />
This stunning 2006 documentary tells the<br />
epic story of the systematic theft, deliberate<br />
destruction, and miraculous survival of Europe’s<br />
art treasures during the Third Reich and WWII. The<br />
film takes the audience on a journey through seven<br />
countries into a violent whirlwind of fanaticism,<br />
greed, and warfare that threatened to wipe out the<br />
artistic heritage of Europe. Joan Allen narrates this<br />
breathtaking chronicle about the battle over the<br />
very survival of centuries of western culture.<br />
MARcH 13<br />
ART AND<br />
CONSCIENCE<br />
“Modigliani”<br />
With talk back by Mizel Museum Curator<br />
Georgina Kolber<br />
Set in Paris in 1919 when the city’s bohemian<br />
community was in full flower, this feature film stars<br />
Andy Garcia as the Jewish Italian artist Amedeo<br />
Modigliani. An honest portrait of the uniquely<br />
gifted painter and sculptor, the film focuses on the<br />
troubled artist’s last days, depicting his rivalry with<br />
Pablo Picasso and his tragic romance with Jeanne<br />
(Elsa Zylberstein), who was disowned by her<br />
wealthy family for falling in love with a Jew.<br />
Four Tuesday nights at 7 pm<br />
Dairy center’s Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St.<br />
For tickets: www.thedairy.org<br />
Or call 303-998-1021<br />
MARcH 20<br />
“Herb and dorothy”<br />
With talk back by art collector david raddock<br />
Herb and Dorothy Vogel redefine what it means to be an<br />
art collector, as this 2008 documentary so astonishingly<br />
attests. Herbert Vogel, the son of a Russian Jewish<br />
garment worker, spent his life working as a clerk at the<br />
post office. Dorothy Faye Hoffmann, the daughter of an<br />
Orthodox stationary merchant, worked as a librarian.<br />
Herb and Dorothy married in 1962 and in their cramped<br />
one bedroom apartment amassed one of the world’s most<br />
important collections of Minimalist and Conceptual art.<br />
MARcH 27<br />
“American Splendor”<br />
With special pre-show talk at<br />
6:30 by Kathryn Bernheimer<br />
Jewish Comic Book Creators:<br />
From Superman, Batman,<br />
Spiderman, and X-Men to<br />
R. Crumb’s underground comix<br />
Paul Giamatti plays cult comic book creator Harvey Pekar<br />
in this 2003 biographical comedy-drama about a morose<br />
artist who shares the sad monotony of everyday life with<br />
his fans. When he meets fellow neurotic Joyce Brabner<br />
(Hope Davis), he finds his depressive soul mate. The<br />
deadly funny film employs a combination of live-action film,<br />
video, and animation, including narration and commentary<br />
from the real-life Harvey Pekar.<br />
“Movies about artists’ lives are usually deadly and<br />
diminishing. This cubistic approach, blurring the line<br />
between the man and his work, gives us the impression<br />
we’re seeing the world from inside Pekar’s head. It’s<br />
as if the filmmakers let themselves be invaded by their<br />
subject’s quirky, cranky spirit.”<br />
- David Ansen, Newsweek<br />
visit us online at www. boulderjcc.org MARCH-APRIL-MAY <strong>2012</strong> / Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan 5772
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