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Yentl (1983). A Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.

Absolute vanity project on Babs' part, but y'know what? If more vanity projects were this good, cinema would be a better place. 8/10.

Play for Today: Bar Mitzvah Boy (BBC, 1976)

"At this moment, on their way, are a hundred and seventeen guests. Sitting on the train, in cars, queuing for buses - all on their way. At half past six, Victor, a hundred and seventeen people from Bournemouth, from Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow, from Birmingham, everywhere... are going to turn up at the Reuben Shulman Hall expecting a dinner dance. All dressed up. Your Uncle Zalman, my cousin Freda. Your brother we don't talk about from Cardiff."

"Don't upset yourself."

"A hundred and seventeen people. A hundred and seventeen portions of chopped liver. A hundred and seventeen mushroom vol-au-vents. A hundred and seventeen chicken with croquette potatoes and helzel, French beans and coleslaw. A hundred and seventeen lokshen kugels. A four-piece band. No bar mitzvah boy. No bar mitzvah. No nothing."

#play for today #Bar mitzvah boy #jack rosenthal #Single play #Modern drama #BBC #1976 #Michael Tuchner #Jeremy Steyn #Maria Charles #Bernard Spear #Adrienne Posta #Jonathan Lynn #Cyril Shaps #Jack Lynn #Pamela Manson #Harry Landis #Kim Clifford #Mark Herman #Harold Reese #absolutely one of Jack's warmest and wittiest scripts. having been frustrated by the casting of non jewish actors in his previous PfT The #Evacuees‚ Jack put his foot down on this play and it benefits from collecting some of the best jewish character actors then active in uk #stage and screen into one play. particularly wonderful are Spear and Maria Charles as the parents intent on making their son's bar mitzvah #a day to remember: her sporting a truly awe inspiring helmet of hair‚ he willing the day to have come and gone so that everything can #return to normal. there's a sharp satirical study of middle class aspirationism and the inadequacy of bar mitzvah as a standard of manhood #(all the adult male characters display various immaturities throughout the play) but it's all done with a very deep and very real affection #special mention to perennial fave Cyril Shaps (adorable as the doting if slightly air headed grandfather; actually Shaps was younger than #Spear‚ his onscreen son‚ but had always appeared older than his years) and Posta in a finely judged performance as the older sister whose #sharpness and short temper doesn't mask her love and sense of responsibility for a younger sibling who's quietly terrified about the #prospect of growing up. the dialogue is pin sharp and often laugh out loud funny‚ but there's some nice background stuff going on as well

#8: Yentl (1983, dir. by Barbra Streisand)

#yentl #barbra streisand #movies of 2021 #movie poster #jack rosenthal #52 weeks of women #52 films by women #directed by women #women directors #female directors #women screenwriters #female screenwriters #you go girl pass that bechdel test

Guess what I’m about to watch!!!!

#ian mcdiarmid #Red Letter Day #Amazing Stories #Jack Rosenthal #now if this doesnt sound like an absolute trip!

Play for Today: The Evacuees (BBC, 1975)

"It wasn't German, it was Yiddish!"

"It's the same thing!"

"It never is, is it mam?"

"All the Yiddisher talk Yiddish, that's why they're Yiddisher."

"It's German!"

"So it's German! Does that make it German?"

#The evacuees #Jack rosenthal #play for today #Single play #alan parker #maureen lipman #Gary Carp #Steven Serember #margery mason #Ray Mort #Paul Besterman #Barron Casenov #Margery Withers #aubrey edwards #Ian East #Ivor Roberts #Laurence Cohen #Classic Rosenthal in its gentle examination of particular life experience (of being northern of being Jewish of being poor)#And in that wonderfully authentic ear for very real very funny very devestating dialogue. Unusual Rosenthal in both its scope #(being set over a comparatively long time span when compared to much of his single day or even less work as well as the numerous locations)#And for being so directly biographical: Jack always drew from the well of his own life experience but rarely so openly and so nakedly.#Lipman gives one of her quietest and most dignified performances and her challenge is met by the wonderful Margery Mason whose cruelty and #Prejudice is so deeply rooted and layered so thoroughly that she is convinced of her own kindness and innate goodness. Two powerhouse #Performances but where this falls down is in the wider casting. The boys are all very good (the two leads as well as their various #Classmates) but in casting non Jewish actors in vital Jewish roles the production team make a vital (and easily avoidable) error. Ray Mort #Was a fine character actor but he simply doesn't convince here and his uneasy delivery of typically Jewish mannerisms and speech patterns #Grinds his scenes into stilted unevenness. Margery Withers goes too far the other way and becomes caricature. It's deeply frustrating and #Really quite inexcusably lazy casting (and something Jack himself was deeply unhappy with per Lipman's intro on the dvd).#Still this is a writer very near to the top of his game (his best work for my money would follow in the second half of the 1970s) and there #Is a lot of joy to be taken from a now familiar narrative told from such a unique and under represented point of view

put some fucking shoes on jesus christ

More choice igloo placement.

Holly and Dakota’s son Sawyer, who was born while I was with another household!

This is Arnulfo Crook, who’s from a game-generated family. He autonomously started dating Ethan Parrott when they were teens, so I moved them in together when they aged up.

Giving us a stank face here is Ethan, and the couple’s daughter, Brenna.

I don’t know.

I don’t want to know.

The igloo epidemic continues.

Benjamin appears to go The Exorcist on us.

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Spend Spend Spend - John Goldschmidt (1977)

Spend, Spend, Spend is an episode of the BBC's Play for Today anthology series first transmitted 15 March 1977 on BBC1. Written by Jack Rosenthal (The Knowledge) it recounts the life of football pools winner's wife Viv Nicholson.

What a fascinating story, and told with the sort of wit and style so absent from working class drama these days. Or maybe it was then. Writer Jim Rosenthal stated that he had been following the presses coverage of Viv''s life after her win, and concluced that she was a cow. It wasn't until he looked deeper that he uncovered the real human beneath the headlines.

It's a sad, funny and mad story from a golden age in British TV.

8.5/10

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#Play for today #Jack Rosenthal #Spend Spend Spends #Viv Nicholson #Kitchen sink films

BBC Arts Pay Tribute To Alan Parker With Evacuees

In a special tribute to film director Sir Alan Parker, BBC Arts presents a freshly restored print of his 1975 television drama The Evacuees, showing in its original 4:3 screen aspect ratio, tonight on BBC Four.

Starring Maureen Lipman and written by Jack Rosenthaland based on Jack’s wartime experiences. The BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning television drama tells the story of two young Jewish boys in…

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