BELLA! Film Review: Powerful Doc of 70’s Feminist Icon
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BELLA! Film Review: Powerful Doc of 70’s Feminist Icon

ByLynn Friedman

The historic Castro Theatre hosted BELLA!, the 2023 closing night selection of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, oldest such festival in the world. If you don’t know who Bella Abzug is, you weren’t alive in the 1970s, but trust me, you want to see this documentary of an extraordinary woman, beginning her career as…

Remembering Gene Wilder: Tribute Doc
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Remembering Gene Wilder: Tribute Doc

ByLynn Friedman

Remembering Gene Wilder opened the 2023 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, screened at the beautiful Castro Theatre. Side note: the SFJFF is the oldest Jewish film festival in the world. Through Interviews and archival footage we are given a back stage pass to rub shoulders with the likes of Richard Pryor, Zero Mostel, Gilda Radner,…