‘September 5’: Director Tim Fehlbaum on the challenge of using the real-life ABC footage of Jim McKay
September 5 tells the real-life story of how ABC Sports reported on the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre.
Dick Button Dies: Gold Medalist Who Became The Voice Of Olympic Figure Skating Was 95
Dick Button, the two-time Olympic gold medalist and five-time world champion who went on the become the Emmy-winning voice of ...
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'Swing for Gold,' inspires at the 16th annual Israeli and Jewish Film Festival
In 2021, Israel’s baseball team competed in the Olympics for the first time. Trump and Musk's plans, pandas return and ...
Former Olympian Cheryl Toussaint continues to lead the pack as director of the Colgate Women’s Games
Cheryl Toussaint was on edge waiting for the baton in the early heats of the 4×400 meter relay at the 1972 Summer Olympics in ...
Jewish war epic ‘The Brutalist’ picks up 10 Oscar nominations, ‘A Complete Unknown’ close behind
Nominated films about Israel and the Palestinian territories, meanwhile, took on new dimensions in the wake of the ...
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More Theatrical Experimentation, Please
I just want to highlight, briefly, the news that the reboot of The Toxic Avenger is, finally, getting a theatrical release this year. I say “finally” because the film made the festival rounds way back ...
Granger on Film: 'September 5' an enthralling look at Munich Olympics hostage taking
In German and English, on the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, “September 5” is an enthralling 8, playing in theaters.
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Movie Review | Dramatization of Munich massacre coverage is gripping
Essentially, “September 5” is a movie about journalism — yes, we love those — in which the paramount concern for Roone, ...
Aviva Ballas narrowly escaped the massacre of Israel's athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games. Afterward she found it difficult to trust anyone
Born in Baghdad, former track and field champion Aviva Ballas was one of Israel's top runners in the early 1970s. From her ...
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Oscar nominations have a formidable Jewish presence this year
Meanwhile, nominations for a documentary about the West Bank and a docudrama about the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre of Israeli athletes also kept Israel in the conversation. The nominations ...