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Some thoughts on returning from Defiance (2008):
1. What idiot let Liev Schreiber get away without an Oscar nomination?
2. I felt there should be a koan for the Bielski Otriad: if two Jews have a philosophical argument in the middle of a forest, when is the third going to pitch in (and is he going to punch someone)? This is not a complaint. A Holocaust film without hagiography is one that works for me.
3. Now that we've proved that general audiences will watch a film with Jewish partisans, who can we get to adapt A Verse from Babylon, please?
I wish I could play my formerly purchased music from iTunes. "Yisrolik" and "Shtil di nakht" are both locked.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
strange_selkie?
1. What idiot let Liev Schreiber get away without an Oscar nomination?
2. I felt there should be a koan for the Bielski Otriad: if two Jews have a philosophical argument in the middle of a forest, when is the third going to pitch in (and is he going to punch someone)? This is not a complaint. A Holocaust film without hagiography is one that works for me.
3. Now that we've proved that general audiences will watch a film with Jewish partisans, who can we get to adapt A Verse from Babylon, please?
I wish I could play my formerly purchased music from iTunes. "Yisrolik" and "Shtil di nakht" are both locked.
strange_selkie?
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This tickles me.
who can we get to adapt A Verse from Babylon, please?
Seconded.
And "Soldiers Three" is an excellent soundtrack, even if it's not in Yiddish.
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It's one of the aspects of the film I loved most. A refugee professor and a political pamphleteer unhandily constructing a pine-bough shelter in the middle of the Belorussian wilderness, in mortal danger simply for being alive and arguing unstoppably about socialism, fascism, and FDR—that's a crystallization of the tragicomedy that one can argue has defined Yiddish literature since it evolved out of Mittelhochdeutsch and whatever other languages it got near. The answer to "Why is it so fucking hard being friends with a Jew?" is, "Try being one." Not all stories of survival are nothing but solemnity, the alchemy of sacrifice. In the Naliboki Forest, saints you don't get.
And "Soldiers Three" is an excellent soundtrack, even if it's not in Yiddish.
It really is what I'm listening to. This semi-new version of iTunes doesn't winnow out songs from the search window according to the same rules as the old one, so when I look for Sid Griffin and Billy Bragg's "Sailors and Soldiers," I get June Tabor as well. Tragically, with never a penny of money turns me right back to Brandeis and the Rose Art Museum.