"His Wife's Lover" - National Center for Jewish Film's Jewishfilm.2015
West Newton Cinema West Newton, MA
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"His Wife's Lover" - National Center for Jewish Film's Jewishfilm.2015
TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE
DAY OF SHOW TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT NCJF TABLE IN LOBBY OF WEST NEWTON CINEMA, BEGINNING AT 11 AM SUNDAY, MAY 10.
Sun, May 10, 12:00 pm at West Newton Cinema
BOSTON PREMIERE
NEW 35MM RESTORATION BY THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR JEWISH FILM Guests: NCJF Directors Sharon Pucker Rivo & Lisa Rivo
Billed as "The First Jewish Musical Comedy Talking Picture," this fast-paced 1931 comedy stars popular Yiddish comedian Ludwig Satz in a rare surviving film performance. Directed by Sidney Goldin (East and West, The Cantor's Son) and shot on NYC's Lower East Side from a script by female author Sheyne Rokhl Simkoff, the film revels in its role reversals and love triangles that comment on gender issues of its day. When the uncle of matinee idol Eddie Wien (Satz) claims that women are only motivated by a fat pocketbook, Eddie sets out to prove him wrong, wooing shop girl Golde Blumberg while disguised as a repulsive millionaire. "Tough and racy.... a tour de force for Satz." J. Hoberman, Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds "Gifted tummler Satz prefigures mainstream American clowns Sid Caesar and Jerry Lewis." Time Magazine
Dir: Sidney M. Goldin | USA | 1931 | 80m | Yiddish w/ new English subtitles
Screening as part of: The National Center for Jewish Film's JEWISHFILM.2015 18th Annual Film Festival April 30-May 15
Full festival program: www.jewishfilm.org
Location
West Newton Cinema (View)
1296 Washington Street
West Newton, MA 02465
United States
