TCM to Explore the Jewish Experience on Film Tuesdays in September
The Projected Image: The Jewish Experience on Film to be Hosted by TCM’s Robert Osborne and Author Dr. Eric Goldman
This September, TCM proudly presents The Projected Image: The Jewish Experience on Film,
a month-long showcase of movies focusing on Jewish history and heritage
as portrayed on screen. Airing Tuesdays throughout the month, the
showcase will feature introductions by TCM host Robert Osborne and Dr. Eric Goldman, Ph.D.
an expert on Yiddish, Israeli and Jewish film and adjunct professor at
Yeshiva University. Dr. Goldman is the founder and president of Ergo
Media, a distributor of Jewish film. He is also the author of two
important books on the topic, The American Jewish Story Through Cinema (2013) and Visions, Images and Dreams: Yiddish Film Past and Present (2011).
The Projected Image: The Jewish Experience on Film will feature more than 20 films, including four that are coming to the network for the first time. Dr. Goldman assisted in curating the month-long programming event, which is divided into seven different themes. The Jewish Experience on Film will open Sept. 2 with "The Evolving Jew," which will include two versions of The Jazz Singer - Al Jolson’s early sound film from 1927 and the 1952 remake with Danny Thomas. That same night, "The Immigrant Experience" will look at Jewish families transplanted from Europe to the U.S. and includes Joan Micklin Silver’s Hester Street (1975) and Barry Levinson’s nostalgic drama Avalon (1990).
On Sept. 9, TCM will devote the night to stories related to "The Holocaust," including two powerful classics from the 1960s: Stanley Kramer’s Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) and Sidney Lumet’s The Pawnbroker (1964). The night also includes the Orson Welles thriller The Stranger (1946), in which he co-stars with Edward G. Robinson and Loretta Young, and Edward Dmytryk’s powerful drama The Juggler (1953), starring Kirk Douglas.
"Israeli Classics" on Sept. 16 will feature two films appearing for the first time on TCM: Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer (1955) and Sallah (1964). The night will also include "The Jewish Homeland," featuring George Sherman’s Sword in the Desert (1949, TCM premiere), starring Dana Andrews, and Otto Preminger’s Exodus (1960), starring Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint.
TCM will spend the evening of Sept. 23 with stories about "Tackling Prejudice." The lineup will feature such thoughtful adaptations as The House of Rothschild (1934), from a George Hembert Westley play; Gentleman’s Agreement (1947), based on Laura Z. Hobson’s bestseller; Crossfire (1947), adapted from a novel by filmmaker Richard Brooks; and Focus (2001, TCM premiere), based on a novel by Arthur Miller.
TCM’s The Projected Image: The Jewish Experience on Film will wrap up on Sept. 30 with "Coming-of-Age" stories. The night includes The Young Lions (1958), with Montgomery Clift as a young soldier coming to grips with anti-Semitism during World War II, and The Way We Were (1973), with Barbra Streisand as a Marxist Jew who shares a bittersweet romance with a handsome gentile, played by Robert Redford.
Nearly every year since 2005, TCM has dedicated a month to examining how different cultural and ethnic groups have been portrayed in the movies. Several of the programming events have centered on Race and Hollywood, with explorations on how the movies have portrayed African-Americans (2005), Asians (2008), Latinos (2009), Native Americans (2010) and Arabs (2011). In June 2007, TCM examined Hollywood’s depiction of gay and lesbian characters, issues and themes with the month-long Screened Out: Gay Images in the Movies. And in October 2012, TCM explored the ways people with disabilities have been portrayed with The Projected Image: A History of Disability in Film.
The Projected Image: The Jewish Experience on Film
Tuesday, Sept. 2
"The Evolving Jew"
8 p.m. - The Jazz Singer (1927)
9:45 p.m. - The Jazz Singer (1952)
"The Immigrant Experience"
11:45 p.m. - Hester Street (1975)
1:30 a.m. - Avalon (1990)
4 a.m. - Street Scene (1931)
Tuesday, Sept. 9
"The Holocaust"
8 p.m. - The Stranger (1946)
10 p.m. - The Juggler (1953)
11:45 p.m. - The Pawnbroker (1964)
2 a.m. - Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Tuesday, Sept. 16
"Israeli Classics"
8 p.m. - Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer (1955) - TCM Premiere
10 p.m. - Sallah (1964) - TCM Premiere
"The Jewish Homeland"
Midnight - Sword in the Desert (1949) - TCM Premiere
2 a.m. - Exodus (1960)
Tuesday, Sept. 23
"Tackling Prejudice"
8 p.m. - The House of Rothschild (1934)
10 p.m. - Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)
12:15 a.m. - Crossfire (1947)
2 a.m. - Focus (2001) - TCM Premiere
4 a.m. - The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
Tuesday, Sept. 30
"Coming-of-Age"
8 p.m. - The Young Lions (1958)
11 p.m. - The Way We Were (1973)
1:15 a.m. - Hearts of the West (1975)
3:15 a.m. - The Chosen (1981)
All times Eastern