The Israel Film Festival is running in Los Angeles. It features a wide range of subjects, including highly personal documentaries and a romantic comedy about a Mexican salsa dancer disguised as a nun. Host Michel Martin speaks with the founder and executive director of the Israel Film Festival, Meir Fenigstein.
There area a lot of bad movies out there. Some movies are so bad that they’re good. For some reason people love them.
With the silent film The Artist in competition for this year’s Best Picture Oscar, Bob Mondello has been thinking about the pre-talkie era. As it happens, the last silent film to win for Best Picture has just been released on Blu-ray: the 1927 flying-ace epic Wings.
Bob Mondello recommends a charming home video pick you almost certainly missed — and one that might make you think twice about sitting on Santa’s lap.