You’re going to find out - we’re working on a Biography about him. Yes, I’m finally doing a project that deals with a recognizeable, historical subject! I wrote his bio on IMDB.
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Link: Review: Buffalo ‘66.
A Film Review by James Berardinelli
A documentary with a poetic style by new filmmaker Michale Boganim, with help from Gabriel Elhayani and French producers. It’s a montage of sentimental feelings that were collected from 3 places, the main being: Odessa, Ukraine. A collection, loosely connected in theme. You get to view a series of people, separate, who don’t know each other, speaking in different languages… only connected by the city of Odessa. Immediately you know that it is more than a city, it is a feeling.
It’s an extension of the "wandering jew" theme. It’s about the detachment and alienation of the modern global age. It’s about how the secular state of Israel has gathered-in the "exiles", yet they long for home. It’s about the secular melting pot of America, which has attracted the hungry immigrant, yet they fail to assimilate. They keep to themselves, many also longing for home…
Where is "home"? It is not just an Odessa condition, a Jew condition, nor an Israeli condition. It’s a universal condition. It can be a statement of the wandering in all of us with the advent of modern high-speed travel, the lure of new places, the realization that when you get some place new… there you are, but where is THAT?
Currently, this film is unavailable. You can only lick your lips and dream… although you can get my interview with the director.
I had the opportunity to meet with the director, Michale Boganim when she was in the big Apple. We’re "practically related" in some way (but that is another story) From this meeting came a short film, available at some point through Silver Spring Studios. Her film had been at the prestigious Berlin Film Fest and Sundance prior to doing the Pioneer Theatre in NYC.
(more later - incl. photos)
Link: Odessa Odessa.
Link: Odessa … Odessa!.
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