"Home for Purim" is an art-house darling about a Jewish family in the South. Have a glimpse of the film, you may get further understanding.
November 16, 2006 (Press Release) --
Even before filming is finished, a blogger is saying the movie's leading lady gives a performance "that can only be described as Oscar-worthy." Soon two other cast members are deemed award-worthy. And the trades, TV and radio are picking up on all this.
It's just the kind of film that can become an art-house darling, too a quirky (hokey, actually) World War II period piece about a Jewish family in the South who have gathered for the dying matriarch's favorite holiday. Yiddish words spoken with a drawl brilliant!
But before you tell your friends, know this: "Home for Purim" is the film-within-a-film in "For Your Consideration," Christopher Guest's latest ensemble comedy, and his send-up of independent movies and the hype that sometimes surround them could be a documentary (though, this time it's NOT one of Guest's mockumentaries).
Just as in real life, once the movie comes out, the hubbub rings hollow, and some cinephiles are left to wonder: What was all the fuss?
Good little films for grown-ups such as "Sideways" and "Lost in Translation" eventually meet with commercial as well as critical success. (Each won a screenwriting Oscar.) But sometimes highly publicized indies disappoint moviegoers.
The process usually begins at film festivals Sundance, Cannes, Toronto, in particular which serve as "a kind of New Hampshire primary of filmdom," observes Dennis M. Maher, an associate professor of theater arts at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Source: http://www.msn.com
It's just the kind of film that can become an art-house darling, too a quirky (hokey, actually) World War II period piece about a Jewish family in the South who have gathered for the dying matriarch's favorite holiday. Yiddish words spoken with a drawl brilliant!
But before you tell your friends, know this: "Home for Purim" is the film-within-a-film in "For Your Consideration," Christopher Guest's latest ensemble comedy, and his send-up of independent movies and the hype that sometimes surround them could be a documentary (though, this time it's NOT one of Guest's mockumentaries).
Just as in real life, once the movie comes out, the hubbub rings hollow, and some cinephiles are left to wonder: What was all the fuss?
Good little films for grown-ups such as "Sideways" and "Lost in Translation" eventually meet with commercial as well as critical success. (Each won a screenwriting Oscar.) But sometimes highly publicized indies disappoint moviegoers.
The process usually begins at film festivals Sundance, Cannes, Toronto, in particular which serve as "a kind of New Hampshire primary of filmdom," observes Dennis M. Maher, an associate professor of theater arts at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Source: http://www.msn.com
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