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Teaneck International Film Festival to Screen "Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round"

(TEANECK, NJ) -- The Puffin Cultural Forum will screen the groundbreaking new documentary Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round, from Emmy award-winning director Ilana Trachtman (Praying with Lior, Mariachi High, Black in Latin America) as part of the Teaneck International Film Festival on Sunday, November 10, 2024 at 4:45pm. The documentary is quickly becoming a lightning rod for heartfelt dialogue between the Black and Jewish communities, and celebrated in both communities' film festivals simultaneously. Ain't No Back won Best Documentary Feature at the DC Black Film Festival, and three weeks later went on to sell out all five nights of a limited theatrical run at the DC JCC.




 

New Jersey Symphony presents Disney's "The Muppet Christmas Carol" in concert

(NEWARK, NJ) -- New Jersey Symphony will present Disney's The Muppet Christmas Carol in Concert featuring a screening of the complete film while the musical score is performed live by the orchestra. The concerts will be led by conductor Constantine Kitsopoulos from December 5-8, 2024 with performances in Morristown, Red Bank, Newark, and New Brunswick.



Teaneck International Film Festival to Screen "Union," a documentary about the fight to create an Amazon Labor Union

(TEANECK, NJ) -- The Teaneck International Film Festival presents a screening of Union on Saturday, November 9, 2024 at Puffin Cultural Forum. The documentary chronicles the extraordinary efforts of an unlikely group of warehouse workers as they launch a grassroots union campaign at an Amazon fulfillment center. Screening takes place at 2:00pm.



Teaneck International Film Festival to Open with "Freedom Hair"

(TEANECK, NJ) -- The 2024 Teaneck International Film Festival opens on Thursday, November 7th with Freedom Hair - a feature based on the real story of a Black woman's fight to start a hair braiding business in Mississippi. The screening begins at 7:30pm.



Teaneck International Film Festival presents a screening of the feature documentary "Sabbath Queen"

(TEANECK, NJ) -- The Teaneck International Film Festival presents a screening of the feature documentary Sabbath Queen on Sunday, November 10, 2024 at Temple Emeth. The film was directed and produced by Sandi DuBowski. Showtime is 3:00pm.





Teaneck International Film Festival presents a Screening of "A House is Not a Disco"

(TEANECK NJ) -- The Teaneck International Film Festival presents a screening of A House Is Not A Disco on Saturday, November 9, 2024 at Puffin Cultural Form. The film documents a year in the life of the storied queer beach town (Fire Island) now facing the challenge of rising seas caused by climate change. The screening begins at 4:30pm.



New Release Review - "Woman of the Hour"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2024-10-23

In 1978, a woman named Cheryl Bradshaw found herself in the role of the "bachelorette" on an episode of The Dating Game. Her job was to choose from one of three "bachelors", who were hidden behind a screen, by asking them a serious of questions and determining their suitability for a date by their answers. On shows like this, the guys do their best to provide witty answers and come off as charming, but the reality is that the woman is simply trying to determine which of them is the least creepy. After asking a series of questions, Cheryl decided that the least creepy bachelor was a 35-year-old named Rodney Alcala. Ironically, Rodney was a serial killer who had murdered at least five women at that point and would go on to claim more victims.



New Release Review - "Smile 2"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2024-10-22

Parker Finn's 2022 directorial debut Smile was one of the horror genre's biggest surprises of recent years. Trailers suggested it would be little more than yet another bland studio horror with an arresting gimmick it fails to exploit. But Finn's film turned out to be a thoughtful and disturbing supernatural thriller, one that took the cliché of "trauma" and actually did something interesting with the idea. As an allegory for mental health issues and the looming spectre of potential suicide, it somehow managed to avoid coming across as exploitative or distasteful.



New Release Review - "Salem's Lot"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2024-10-19

The 1970s saw horror up sticks from its traditional setting of crumbling Gothic European mansions and move into a shiny new home in the suburbs and small towns of the US. Films like Halloween, The Fog, The Amityville Horror and Poltergeist brought the supernatural to a setting most viewers, especially Americans, could easily relate to. On the page, Stephen King was doing similar. In his 1975 novel Salem's Lot, a vampire literally relocates to small town New England. While King had several bestsellers and a Brian de Palma adaptation of his debut novel Carrie by that point, it was director Tobe Hooper's 1979 Salem's Lot TV mini-series that really made King a household name, and crucially, it introduced the writer's work to a new fanbase too young to have been able to see Carrie in cinemas. With one of its two central heroes being a monster movie obsessed young boy, it also set the template for '80s movies like The Goonies and The Monster Squad, which of course would later be channelled by Netflix's flagship series Stranger Things.



2024 Rutgers Jewish Film Festival Preview

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- The Rutgers Jewish Film Festival's 25th anniversary year will feature fourteen thought-provoking and entertaining films, dynamic discussions with filmmakers and special guests, and numerous New Jersey premieres on dance, music, the LGBTQ+ experience, American Jewish history, and Israeli society. Twelve films will be screened at the Regal Cinema Commerce Center, North Brunswick (November 7–17, 2024), and five films will be available virtually (November 15–21, 2024).


 

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