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FIDDLER's Journey to the Big Screen director Daniel Raim will participate in a Q&A after the Monday, December 16 screening at the Town Center. Laemmle Theatres President Greg Laemmle will moderate.
Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen
This is no ordinary behind-the-scenes documentary...it chronicles the adaptation of a musical play that qualifies as a genuine phenomenon.
Part of Culture Vulture film series
Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen
The fall of 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof, the film Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) called "the most powerful movie musical ever made." Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, FIDDLER'S JOURNEY TO THE BIG SCREEN captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewison's quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re-envision the beloved stage hit as a wide-screen epic.
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Daniel Raim puts us in the director's chair and in Jewison's heart and mind, drawing on behind-the-scenes footage and never-before-seen stills as well as original interviews with Jewison, Topol (Tevye), composer John Williams, production designer Robert F. Boyle, film critic Kenneth Turan, lyricist Sheldon Harnick, and actresses Rosalind Harris, Michele Marsh, and Neva Small (Tevye’s daughters).
The film explores how the experience of making Fiddler deepened Jewison as an artist and revived his soul.
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Daniel Raim puts us in the director's chair and in Jewison's heart and mind, drawing on behind-the-scenes footage and never-before-seen stills as well as original interviews with Jewison, Topol (Tevye), composer John Williams, production designer Robert F. Boyle, film critic Kenneth Turan, lyricist Sheldon Harnick, and actresses Rosalind Harris, Michele Marsh, and Neva Small (Tevye’s daughters).
The film explores how the experience of making Fiddler deepened Jewison as an artist and revived his soul.
Genre
Documentary,
Pop Culture,
Jewish Culture,
Films & Filmmakers,
Greg's List
Runtime
88
Language
English
Director
Daniel Raim
Cast
Jeff Goldblum (narrator)
FEATURED REVIEW
Robert Abele, TheWrap
One of the more unlikely stage-and-screen box office smashes in musical history, “Fiddler on the Roof” — based on stories of shtetl life in Tsarist Russia by Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem, and turned by writer Joseph Stein, lyricist Sheldon Harnick, and composer Jerry Bock into a song-filled saga ...
Opening at
Monica Film Center on Dec 16th
Claremont 5 on Dec 16th
Town Center 5 on Dec 16th
Glendale on Dec 16th
Played at
Royal 5.05.22 - 5.05.22
Playhouse 7 5.06.22 - 5.12.22
Town Center 5 5.06.22 - 5.26.22
Laemmle Virtual Cinema 6.17.22 - 9.29.22
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