PJFM is delighted to partner with the newly titled Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History for Lindy SummerFest 2022, a summer film series. See three Philadelphia premieres Thursday nights, from June 9-23, at the newly re-opened Dell Theater (located in the Concourse Level of the museum). Silver Sponsors ($1,000) and above are eligible to receive TWO COMPLIMENTARY TICKETS for five films. Bronze Sponsors ($500) may receive ONE complimentary ticket for five films.
- FIDDLER’S JOURNEY TO THE BIG SCREEN
Fiddler on the Roof, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2021, remains one of the most celebrated movie musicals of all time. With its melodious songs, iconic imagery, and Sholem Aleichem’s unforgettable tale of Tevye and his family, the film is most recognized in the canon of Jewish international cinema. Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen takes viewers back to the arduous journey director Norman Jewison – who, funnily enough, is not Jewish, despite his surname – partook to bring the stage musical to the big screen. Featuring insightful and often hilarious present-day interviews with Jewison himself, Fiddler’s Journey is a toe-tapping, delightful “journey” you won’t soon forget!
- A TREE OF LIFE
Saturday, October 27, 2018. Shabbat morning. A man enters a synagogue in Pittsburgh with four assault weapons in hand, murdering 11 congregants, all because he hates Jews. Four years later and the pain still won’t go away. Can it ever? Academy Award nominee Trish Adlesic tackles a delicate topic with bravery and skill in A Tree of Life, an astounding powerhouse of a motion picture. As survivors and relatives of the victims recount that tragic day, Adlesic delves even deeper into the politically biased, ever-growing hate crimes and anti-Semitic attacks that continue to afflict this country.
- JEWS OF THE WILD WEST
One may not necessarily associate Jews with the emblems of the American Wild West; cowboys, horseback riding, saloons with their usual swinging doors. In Jews of the Wild West, viewers are presented with a long-forgotten, unheard of chapter of American history: the efforts and accomplishments that thousands of Jews made in shaping the Western frontier. Who knew, for example, that Broncho Billy Anderson, considered to be Hollywood’s first celebrity cowboy, was Jewish? Who knew that even Golda Meir herself, the famed prime minister of Israel, lived in Colorado? With incredible archival footage and interviews of present-day relatives of the little-known “Jews of the Wild West,” this remarkable debut from director Amanda Marshall Kinsey is a testament to the historic achievements Jews have made throughout all parts of America.
Get tickets and info at PhillyJFM.org/LindySummerFest.