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About Author: Janis Seftel

Janis Seftel
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http://expectingthespanish.wordpress.com/
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Janis Seftel is a writer in Toronto. Follow Janis on Twitter @jmseftel.

Posts by Janis Seftel

  • The Toronto Jewish Film Festival is always an exceptional  week in the city’s cultural calendar, with so much ante being upped that other fests have their work cut out for...

    A look at TJFF 2013

    Posted on April 11, 2013 | No Comments
    The Toronto Jewish Film Festival is always an exceptional  week in the city’s cultural calendar, with so much ante being upped that other fests have their work cut out for...

  • This Thursday night brings a unique cross-cultural celebration to Toronto’s arts calendar, a must-do for film, dance and live music fans alike. Join the Ashkenaz Foundation and the International Diaspora Film Fest...

    Opening night at the Diaspora Film Fest

    Posted on November 1, 2012 | No Comments
    This Thursday night brings a unique cross-cultural celebration to Toronto’s arts calendar, a must-do for film, dance and live music fans alike. Join the Ashkenaz Foundation and the International Diaspora Film Fest...

  • I always look forward to Italian dramas about relationships; you just know they’re going to be full of thought-provoking platitudes dreamed up by characters who don’t seem to have very...

    ICFF 2012 Review: La Giusta Distanza

    Posted on June 27, 2012 | No Comments
    I always look forward to Italian dramas about relationships; you just know they’re going to be full of thought-provoking platitudes dreamed up by characters who don’t seem to have very...

  • Toronto audiences may be familiar with Emanuele Crialese’s Terraferma (Dry Land), as it premiered at TIFF last year and was Italy’s submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2011 Academy...

    ICFF 2012 Review: Terraferma

    Posted on June 26, 2012 | No Comments
    Toronto audiences may be familiar with Emanuele Crialese’s Terraferma (Dry Land), as it premiered at TIFF last year and was Italy’s submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2011 Academy...

  • It begins in the same way that Portnoy’s Complaint, Indignant, Everyman and scores of other Philip Roth novels grab you with a hook; it’s right there in your face. He’s across from...

    TJFF 2012 Review: Roth on Roth

    Posted on May 10, 2012 | No Comments
    It begins in the same way that Portnoy’s Complaint, Indignant, Everyman and scores of other Philip Roth novels grab you with a hook; it’s right there in your face. He’s across from...

  • The Toronto Jewish Film Festival is, without a doubt, a premiere place to go to back in time with characters, filmmakers and producers, and explore significant historical moments with both...

    TJFF 2012 Review: How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire

    Posted on May 9, 2012 | No Comments
    The Toronto Jewish Film Festival is, without a doubt, a premiere place to go to back in time with characters, filmmakers and producers, and explore significant historical moments with both...

  • Watching the award-winning Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story, I felt the same as when I saw my first Anne Frank production after getting extremely invested in her story as...

    TJFF 2012 Review: Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story

    Posted on May 6, 2012 | No Comments
    Watching the award-winning Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story, I felt the same as when I saw my first Anne Frank production after getting extremely invested in her story as...

  • You have to give credit to the Lightbox in the middle of winter. I’ve been preaching Reitman Square as a guaranteed good night out since it opened, and finally friends...

    TIFF Bell Lightbox geeks out with ‘Science on Film’ series

    Posted on February 1, 2012 | No Comments
    You have to give credit to the Lightbox in the middle of winter. I’ve been preaching Reitman Square as a guaranteed good night out since it opened, and finally friends...

  • I thought I was going to love Between Two Worlds, a project by husband-and-wife director team Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman, with my passion for internal cultural debate televised for mass...

    TJFF 2011 Review: Between Two Worlds

    Posted on May 15, 2011 | No Comments
    I thought I was going to love Between Two Worlds, a project by husband-and-wife director team Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman, with my passion for internal cultural debate televised for mass...

  • Don’t be fooled: this ain’t no kids movie. A Jewish Girl in Shanghai has gleaned largely positive acclaim in both China and internationally, noted as the first home-grown Chinese film to...

    TJFF 2011 Review: A Jewish Girl in Shanghai

    Posted on May 12, 2011 | No Comments
    Don’t be fooled: this ain’t no kids movie. A Jewish Girl in Shanghai has gleaned largely positive acclaim in both China and internationally, noted as the first home-grown Chinese film to...

  • You don’t have to know much about the history of Lenny Bruce and the turbulent era in which he worked to be impressed by the calibre and originality of both...

    TJFF 2011 Review: Looking for Lenny

    Posted on May 10, 2011 | 1 Comment
    You don’t have to know much about the history of Lenny Bruce and the turbulent era in which he worked to be impressed by the calibre and originality of both...

  • From the moment I watched Igal Hecht conversing with one of the settlers in The Hilltops, I knew he was the kind of director who really takes a journey with...

    TJFF 2011 Review: The Hilltops

    Posted on May 9, 2011 | No Comments
    From the moment I watched Igal Hecht conversing with one of the settlers in The Hilltops, I knew he was the kind of director who really takes a journey with...

  • Documentaries are so niche these days that filmmakers are now championned for honing in on incessant detail to make their point. Jeff Prosserman spends an hour and a half drawing...

    TJFF 2011 Review: Chasing Madoff

    Posted on May 7, 2011 | 2 Comments
    Documentaries are so niche these days that filmmakers are now championned for honing in on incessant detail to make their point. Jeff Prosserman spends an hour and a half drawing...

  • For film lovers, spring in Toronto is a true entertainment gear-shift; suddenly, there’s a festival every week and we wish we didn’t have day jobs. Screenings at 11 am and...

    Toronto Jewish Film Festival ups the ante with 2011 lineup

    Posted on April 13, 2011 | 2 Comments
    For film lovers, spring in Toronto is a true entertainment gear-shift; suddenly, there’s a festival every week and we wish we didn’t have day jobs. Screenings at 11 am and...

  • Apparently, bringing potato chips and your sleeping bag into the bomb shelter of a youth hostel in Jerusalem to watch The Pianist with thirty fellow students does not, in fact,...

    Polanski beyond ‘The Pianist’

    Posted on April 10, 2011 | No Comments
    Apparently, bringing potato chips and your sleeping bag into the bomb shelter of a youth hostel in Jerusalem to watch The Pianist with thirty fellow students does not, in fact,...