Film festivals are just about perpetual temptations in the San Francisco Bay Area. The discerning filmgoer here has to pick and choose her obsessions. One of mine is the well-programmed, easily-accessible San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, running July 25 through August 12, whose 33rd annual program was just announced at its ritually haimishe press conference (Bagels n'schmear! Strong coffee! And fresh plums just plucked from one of the festival employee's tree!). An equally haimishe reason that I look forward to the Jewish Film Festival every year: it's my father's favorite film festival, and now that he's semi-retired, I can count on his enthusiastic companionship at a daunting number of movies a day.Equally enthusiastic as they hit on highlights of the upcoming fest were the triumvirate of Executive Director Lexi Leban, Program Director Jay Rosenblatt, and Associate Programmer Joshua Moore. This year the Festival (the first and largest ...
- 6/27/2013
- by Meredith Brody
- Thompson on Hollywood
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