Movies

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Black Over White

Director: Tomer Heymann
Israel, 2007, 54 min.
Monday, Nov. 2, 7 p.m.
Shwayder Theatre
$2.50 General Admission 

Amharic, English & Hebrew with English subtitles
The Idan Raichel Project, Israel’s hottest world-music band, unites voices of young and old, Ethiopian and Yemenite, and brings together the essence of Middle Eastern and African traditions in an alluring blend of sounds. With a message of love and tolerance in the midst of Middle East conflicts, the group brings to each performance sophisticated productions and an engaging stage presence. Filmmaker Tomer Heymann joined the band on their 2006 concert tour to Ethiopia and the resulting film is sensitive, playful and insightful, revealing the vulnerabilities, frustrations and ambitions of the various band members. The Colorado Premiere was at the Denver Jewish Film Festival on February 9, 2009. This film will compliment Idan Raichel’s JAAMM Festival concert on Thursday, Nov. 5, 8 p.m. at the Newman Center at the University of Denver.

Fiddler on the Roof Sing Along

with subtitles
Director: Norman Jewison
USA, 1971, 181 min.
Sunday, Nov. 15, 6 p.m.
Shwayder Theatre
$8/general admission; $6/senior, student, JCC member 

Camp it up with a sing-a-long of one the world’s most famous musicals. Enjoy classics like “If I Were a Rich Man” and “Matchmaker” from this Academy Award winning film. Show off your melodic talents by singing along with the film about a poor milkman whose love, pride and faith help him face the oppression of the turn-of-the century czarist Russia. This is a chance to enjoy this amazing film in an engaging and interactive way like never before. Members of MACC’s own Wolf Theatre Academy, who will be performing the stage version of Fiddler in December, will lead you in the melodic journeys of this movie musical. To add to the fun, we strongly encourage you to dress as your favorite Fiddler character.

Sponsored by Rob Schwartz & Vicki Trachten-Schwartz

Defiance

Monday, Nov. 9, immediately following Peter Duffy lecture
Director: Edward Zwick. 136 min.
Admission with author lecture ticket
The year is 1941 and the Jews of Eastern Europe are being massacred. Managing to escape certain death, three brothers take refuge in the dense woods they have known since childhood. There they begin their battle against the Nazis. Daniel Craig (Tuvia), Liev Schreiber (Zus) and Jamie Bell (Asael) star as the Bielski brothers who turn a primitive struggle to survive into something far more consequential, a way to avenge the deaths of their loved ones by saving thousands of others. The film is an adaptation of Nechama Tec’s book, Defiance: The Bielski Partisans, which is based on a true story.

Sponsored by Julie & Brent Morse