The great Paul Mazursky is getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame December 13 (all together now: “Doesn’t he Have one already??!) and there’s a premature sense of the valedictory hanging over the occasion. Ok, maybe the director of “Harry and Tonto,” “An Unmarried Woman,” “Down and Out in Beverly Hills" and “Enemies: A Love Story” hasn’t been front and center recently. But that doesn’t mean he hasn’t been acting up.Actually, the last movie Mazursky directed came out in 2006 -- “Yippee!” a documentary about the annual pilgrimage to Uman, a town in the Ukraine where the famous Hasidic leader Rabbi Nachman is buried. Nachman, who lived in the late 1700s and is associated with the more celebratory aspects of Hasidim, told his followers, “if you celebrate Rosh Hashanah at my grave, you'll have a year of joy.” So people return there year after year.
- 12/12/2013
- by John Anderson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Firstly, I want to congratulate filmmaker, Gayle Ferraro, whom I met when she first began this journey of making To Catch a Dollar, which premiered Saturday night at Sundance with Muhammad Yunus present. She, and cameraman, Bill Megalos, and editor, Keiko Deguchi, worked their bottoms off on this doc. The rough cut we viewed last October in New York showed the patience, the spirit and the time it took to follow not only an almost un-followable hero, Muhammad Yunus (he sleeps in airplanes as he travels so much spreading the good word about microcredit and social business), but to both capture the dignity and the dedication of the women at the first Us branch of Grameen, in Queens, New York. It is not easy to both keep a respectful distance, and yet still manage to portray real and intimate...
- 1/25/2010
- by Vivian Norris de Montaigu
- Huffington Post
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