Gedenkstu vi ikh hob dikh gelernt haltn a shpayer in di hent?

[sovay]

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. strange_selkie?

Comments

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

...if two Jews have a philosophical argument in the middle of a forest...

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.

Nine

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

You make me want to see it. I mean, not that I didn't already...and particularly for Liev, who I consider sadly underrated and -used in most cases.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you liked this movie--I feel much more inclined to see it, now. Saw a couple of negative reviews from folk who seemed vaguely clueful, but I'll take your verdict over theirs, any day.

I'm sorry to hear that iTunes is thwarting you.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

You are lucky, re music : N's laptop files, which included MY laptop files from a year ago, are resurrected as of yesterday afternoon.

I would really love someone to adapt my little book. I found new pictures online -- from the Kuvik archive? Which did not exist in the early 2000s -- and I'm semi-excited about their provenance.

I've debated, though, giving the film of my book a modern soundtrack in addition to the songs that get sung in the course of making theatre, because creative people are never living in a way that wants time to stand still.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Oh, and you not only plugged my book, you quoted Hirsh!

*beams*

Cookie?

[xterminal.livejournal.com]

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?

Develop a time machine. It needs Billy Wilder.