Monday June 3, 2013
2:00PM - 7:30PM
Israeli Coming of Age Movie, The Matchmaler, in San Diego (Until June 6th)
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The Matchmaker (May 31 – June 6)
During the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust – both their lives are forever altered.
“Fall in love with Israel’s beloved film The Matchmaker! A smash hit in theaters across the U.S.”
“The Matchmaker… played by (Adir) Miller with a scene-stealing mix of warmth and restraint… balances its darkness and its uneasy scenes of characters reckoning with their pasts with the lightness of youthful romantic anxieties. The film intelligently portrays how, even years later, the memories of trauma can be enough to inhibit a person from finding happiness — and consequently, how essential love is.” – NPR
“The Matchmaker combines the tender tone of a film like Cinema Paradiso with a clear-eyed, street-level vantage on Israel’s summer of the Six-Day War.” – The Village Voice
“Top-notch, emotionally resonant… The Matchmaker is at heart an unexpectedly complex film about love, but also an examination of Israel in flux, a country with one foot in the past and another in the future – a weight that may never fully vacate Israeli shoulders.” – Indiewire
Arik, a teenage boy growing up in Haifa in 1968, gets a job working for Yankele Bride, a matchmaker. Yankele, a mysterious Holocaust survivor, has an office in back of a movie theater that shows only love stories, run by a family of seven Romanian dwarves in the seedy area by the port. Yankele introduces Arik to a new world, built on the ruins of an old one. As Arik begins to learn the mysteries of the human heart through his work with Yankele, he falls in love with Tamara, his friend Beni’s cousin. Tamara has just returned from America and is full of talk of women’s rights, free love and rock and roll. The disparate parts of Arik’s life collide in unexpected, often funny and very moving ways as he lives through a summer that changes him forever. Avi Nesher’s latest film mixes comedy with drama as it tells a coming-of-age story unlike any you’ve ever seen before. Official Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ7qjvyvSnQ Read more about this wonderful film, here: http://www.menemshafilms.com/the-matchmaker-once-i-was.html
SHOWTIMES
Friday, May 31 2:00 pm, 5:00pm, 7:30pm
Saturday, June 1 11:30am, 5:00pm, 7:30pm
Sunday, June 2 11:30am, 5:00pm, 7:30pm
Monday, June 3 2:00pm, 5:00pm, 7:30pm
Tuesday, June 4 2:00pm, 4:30pm
Wednesday, June 5 2:00pm, 5:00pm, 7:30pm
Thursday, June 6 2:00pm, 4:30pm
Runtime: 112 min. MPAA RATING: Not Rated
More Info: 619-230-1938 or www.digitalgym.org/cinema
Purchase Tickets: http://www.digitalgym.org/buy-tickets/
Tickets: General: $10.50 / Students, Seniors, Members: $8.50
Become a Member today at :http://www.mediaartscenter.org/site/c.dfLIJPOvHoE/b.8021697/k.675A/Join_the_Digital_Gym.htm
Movie screens at Media Arts Center San Diego’s new DIGITAL GYM CINEMA in North Park. Located off the 805 freeway on El Cajon Blvd and 30th Street. 2921 El Cajon Blvd., San Diego, CA 92104.
Like our Facebook page Digital Gym San Diego at https://www.facebook.com/digitalgymsandiego
During the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust – both their lives are forever altered.
“Fall in love with Israel’s beloved film The Matchmaker! A smash hit in theaters across the U.S.”
“The Matchmaker… played by (Adir) Miller with a scene-stealing mix of warmth and restraint… balances its darkness and its uneasy scenes of characters reckoning with their pasts with the lightness of youthful romantic anxieties. The film intelligently portrays how, even years later, the memories of trauma can be enough to inhibit a person from finding happiness — and consequently, how essential love is.” – NPR
“The Matchmaker combines the tender tone of a film like Cinema Paradiso with a clear-eyed, street-level vantage on Israel’s summer of the Six-Day War.” – The Village Voice
“Top-notch, emotionally resonant… The Matchmaker is at heart an unexpectedly complex film about love, but also an examination of Israel in flux, a country with one foot in the past and another in the future – a weight that may never fully vacate Israeli shoulders.” – Indiewire
Arik, a teenage boy growing up in Haifa in 1968, gets a job working for Yankele Bride, a matchmaker. Yankele, a mysterious Holocaust survivor, has an office in back of a movie theater that shows only love stories, run by a family of seven Romanian dwarves in the seedy area by the port. Yankele introduces Arik to a new world, built on the ruins of an old one. As Arik begins to learn the mysteries of the human heart through his work with Yankele, he falls in love with Tamara, his friend Beni’s cousin. Tamara has just returned from America and is full of talk of women’s rights, free love and rock and roll. The disparate parts of Arik’s life collide in unexpected, often funny and very moving ways as he lives through a summer that changes him forever. Avi Nesher’s latest film mixes comedy with drama as it tells a coming-of-age story unlike any you’ve ever seen before. Official Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ7qjvyvSnQ Read more about this wonderful film, here: http://www.menemshafilms.com/the-matchmaker-once-i-was.html
SHOWTIMES
Friday, May 31 2:00 pm, 5:00pm, 7:30pm
Saturday, June 1 11:30am, 5:00pm, 7:30pm
Sunday, June 2 11:30am, 5:00pm, 7:30pm
Monday, June 3 2:00pm, 5:00pm, 7:30pm
Tuesday, June 4 2:00pm, 4:30pm
Wednesday, June 5 2:00pm, 5:00pm, 7:30pm
Thursday, June 6 2:00pm, 4:30pm
Runtime: 112 min. MPAA RATING: Not Rated
More Info: 619-230-1938 or www.digitalgym.org/cinema
Purchase Tickets: http://www.digitalgym.org/buy-tickets/
Tickets: General: $10.50 / Students, Seniors, Members: $8.50
Become a Member today at :http://www.mediaartscenter.org/site/c.dfLIJPOvHoE/b.8021697/k.675A/Join_the_Digital_Gym.htm
Movie screens at Media Arts Center San Diego’s new DIGITAL GYM CINEMA in North Park. Located off the 805 freeway on El Cajon Blvd and 30th Street. 2921 El Cajon Blvd., San Diego, CA 92104.
Like our Facebook page Digital Gym San Diego at https://www.facebook.com/digitalgymsandiego
For More Information:
Location/Venue:
Digital Gym CINEMA in North Park
Address:
2921 El Cajon Blvd
City:
San Diego
Zip/Postal:
92104
Contact Name:
Ethan van Thillo
Phone:
619-230-1938
Email:
Web:
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