Updated with more signatories: Reaction continues to The Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer’s acceptance speech after his film won the Oscar for Best International Feature Film this month.
Some 1,215 Jewish show business professionals now have signed a letter denouncing the filmmaker’s speech, in which he decried the “dehumanization” of the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas. See the updated full list below.
“We refute our Jewishness being hijacked for the purpose of drawing a moral equivalence between a Nazi regime that sought to exterminate a race of people, and an Israeli nation that seeks to avert its own extermination,” the letter states (read it in full in full below).
This list includes among its signatories Eli Roth and Amy Sherman-Palladino, Amy Pascal, Debra Messing, Gail Berman, Hawk Koch, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gary Barber, Lawrence Bender, Tovah Feldshuh and Rod Lurie.
You can watch Glazer’s speech here,...
Some 1,215 Jewish show business professionals now have signed a letter denouncing the filmmaker’s speech, in which he decried the “dehumanization” of the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas. See the updated full list below.
“We refute our Jewishness being hijacked for the purpose of drawing a moral equivalence between a Nazi regime that sought to exterminate a race of people, and an Israeli nation that seeks to avert its own extermination,” the letter states (read it in full in full below).
This list includes among its signatories Eli Roth and Amy Sherman-Palladino, Amy Pascal, Debra Messing, Gail Berman, Hawk Koch, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gary Barber, Lawrence Bender, Tovah Feldshuh and Rod Lurie.
You can watch Glazer’s speech here,...
- 3/20/2024
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
The Imposter
Stars: Adam O’Brian, Frédéric Bourdin, Carey Gibson, Anna Ruben | Directed by Bart Layton
I was sorry to have missed The Imposter in the cinema last year, so I was very glad to get the chance the chance to cover the DVD review. As you may be aware, The Imposter is a documentary about Frédéric Bourdin, a French conman who impersonated Nicholas Barclay, a Texan teenager who had been missing for three years. The film is comprised of interviews with Bourdin, Barclay’s family and authorities involved with the case, as well as dramatic reconstructions of key events in the story.
Although the events portrayed by the film are all matters of fact, it’s easy to use words such as ‘story’ and ‘plot’ to describe it given how similar it is to a tightly wound potboiler thriller. As well as the Frederick Forsyth-style intricacies of the intrigue,...
Stars: Adam O’Brian, Frédéric Bourdin, Carey Gibson, Anna Ruben | Directed by Bart Layton
I was sorry to have missed The Imposter in the cinema last year, so I was very glad to get the chance the chance to cover the DVD review. As you may be aware, The Imposter is a documentary about Frédéric Bourdin, a French conman who impersonated Nicholas Barclay, a Texan teenager who had been missing for three years. The film is comprised of interviews with Bourdin, Barclay’s family and authorities involved with the case, as well as dramatic reconstructions of key events in the story.
Although the events portrayed by the film are all matters of fact, it’s easy to use words such as ‘story’ and ‘plot’ to describe it given how similar it is to a tightly wound potboiler thriller. As well as the Frederick Forsyth-style intricacies of the intrigue,...
- 1/5/2013
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
Mitt Romney may not be actively courting hip-hop fans, but that doesn't mean he won't win their vote. There's still time left, and nobody knows how he can win better than comedian Michael Che.
In this new video, Che plays a rap mogul/vodka impresario (also named Michael Che) who has some advice for Romney on how he can win votes from his clientele. On this pretty spot-on Fox News parody, Che debates the liberal Anna Ruben (played by Leah Bonnema) and rattles off how Romney can best position his stances to appeal to the rap community, like invigorating the vodka industry to create more jobs -- such as by inventing cognac and blunt flavored vodka. Check it out.
In this new video, Che plays a rap mogul/vodka impresario (also named Michael Che) who has some advice for Romney on how he can win votes from his clientele. On this pretty spot-on Fox News parody, Che debates the liberal Anna Ruben (played by Leah Bonnema) and rattles off how Romney can best position his stances to appeal to the rap community, like invigorating the vodka industry to create more jobs -- such as by inventing cognac and blunt flavored vodka. Check it out.
- 10/23/2012
- by Ross Luippold
- Huffington Post
This is the Pure Movies review of The Imposter by Michael Holder. The film is directed by Bart Layton and produced by Poppy Dixon and Dimitri Doganis. The film stars Frederic Bourdin, Adam O'Brian, Carey Gibson and Anna Ruben. Truth is stranger than fiction, as Lord Byron once wrote. But fiction was invented because, most of the time, truth is either too boring or painful. So on the odd occasion when truth is actually very, very strange indeed, it’s destined to be made into a feature film at a single shake of a lamb’s tale. Thus, when documentary-maker Bart Layton stumbled upon this fascinating story of a Frenchman who in 1997 convinced a Texan family he was their missing 16-year-old son Nicolas Barclay, he could probably scarcely believe his luck that no one had documented the story on film before.
- 8/25/2012
- by Michael Holder
- Pure Movies
The Imposter Indomina Releasing Director: Bart Layton Cast: Frédéric Bourdin, Carey Gibson, Beverly Dollarhide, Charlie Parker, Nancy Fisher, Bryan Gibson, Bruce Perry, Philip French, Adam O’Brian, Anna Ruben, Cathy Dresbach, Alan Teichman, Ivan Villanueva, Maria Jesus Hoyos Screened at: A&E, NYC, 7/3/12 Opens: July 13, 2012 Admit it: You’ve sometimes imagined what it would seem to be like someone else; to have Bill Gates’s money, President Obama’s prestige, Tom Cruise’s popularity, Brad Pitt’s looks, Angelina Jolie’s lips. But how often have you wished to actually Be someone else? There are precedents. in Daniel Vigne’s movie “The Return of Martin Guerre,” a man leaves his family and friends for the war [ Read More ]...
- 7/13/2012
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
British director Bart Layton makes his feature debut with his documentary-styled psychological thriller 'The Imposter'. The flick centres on a Frenchman who convinces a grieving Texas family that he is their 16-year-old son who went missing for 3 years. It'll be unleashed into various theatres up and down the Us during July and August and you can see all the listing details below. Along with the screening info comes a new one-sheet with all the compulsory thumbs up review quotes plus various festival logos. And in addition a new trailer has also come to light. Adam O'Brian, Anna Ruben, Cathy Dresbach, Alan Teichman, Ivan Villanueva and Maria Jesus Hoyos all star. Check out the full plot details plus the new trailer and one-sheet below....
- 6/1/2012
- Horror Asylum
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