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The Review - AT THE MOVIES with WILLIAM HALL
Published: 25 October 2007

Pick of the Indies

THE thing about the annual Jewish Film Festival that strikes me as I settle down to watch the previews is how wide the programme’s appeal is: the films deal with themes which are relevant to everybody, no matter what your religious, ethnic or cultural background is.
The season runs from November 3-10 at the Screen on the Hill before rolling out across London and I’m particularly looking forward to a screening at the School of Oriental and African Studies’ Brunei Gallery of Between Two Notes on Thursday, November 15. It focuses on Arab music from Israel to Iraq and, afterwards, Abigail Wood, the Joe Loss Lecturer in Jewish Music at SOAS and Parvathi Raman, a social anthropologist at the Bloomsbury university, will discuss the film’s themes.
Watch this space for reviews next week.
Elsewhere, the Everyman’s Spanish season continues with the Almodovar Oscar winner Talk To Her this Saturday. It is a great piece of storytelling, with some clever chronological tricks that lay bare the lives of the four characters. And if you roll up at midday, you get some gorgeous Spanish tortilla to munch as you watch the film – and then the cinema is laying on a wine-tasting session afterwards where you can sample the delights of some of the Peninsula’s wines.
Dan Carrier

* Screen on the Hill Tel: 020 7435 3366.
Brunei Gallery. Tel: 020 7415 7178

* Everyman. Tel: 087 00 66 47 77.www.ukjewishfilmfestival.org.uk/

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