Abe Friedtanzer

Abe Friedtanzer
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Abe Friedtanzer is a film and TV enthusiast who spent most of the past fifteen years in New York City. He has been the editor of MoviesWithAbe.com and TVwithAbe.com since 2007, and has been predicting the Oscars, Emmys, Golden Globes, and SAG Awards since he was allowed to stay up late enough to watch them. He has attended numerous film festivals including Sundance, Tribeca, and SXSW, and is a contributing writer for The Film Experience, Awards Radar, and AwardsWatch.
Abe Friedtanzer is a film and TV enthusiast who spent most of the past fifteen years in New York City. He has been the editor of MoviesWithAbe.com and TVwithAbe.com since 2007, and has been predicting the Oscars, Emmys, Golden Globes, and SAG Awards since he was allowed to stay up late enough to watch them. He has attended numerous film festivals including Sundance, Tribeca, and SXSW, and is a contributing writer for The Film Experience, Awards Radar, and AwardsWatch.

Film Review – ‘Emancipation’ is an Involving and Disturbing Story of Slavery and Freedom

Among the many widely-circulated misconceptions about slavery in America is that President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation officially ended the practice throughout the country. As has too often been seen throughout history, there are those who stand so firmly by their convictions that they wish to go down only with a fight, which in this case…

Exclusive Video Interview: Dror Moreh on His Latest Documentary, ‘The Corridors of Power’

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. Dror Moreh has always been interested in exploring the limits of power and how governments are rarely held accountable for their actions. In The Gatekeepers, which earned an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature in 2012, he spoke to former heads of the Shin…

Film Review – ‘Strange World’ is an Endearing Animated Journey to a Familiar Unknown

The presence or absence of a parent can have a tremendous influence on a child’s trajectory. Children tend to see what their parents do and either emulate or rebel against them, and growing up without that example may similarly mold them if they, as adults, decide to have children of their own. Even and especially…

Film Review – Belgium’s Oscar Submission ‘Close’ is a Tender, Upsetting Story of Childhood Friendship 

Children and teenagers are capable of an unfortunate cruelty to each other that is in most cases learned from watching other people, be it adults in their lives or characters on television or in film. The need to ostracize those who feel different can have immeasurably detrimental effects and lead to tragic consequences. Even in…

Film Review – Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Pinocchio’ is an Imaginative and Involving Retelling of the Classic Story

There are some stories that have become immortalized in time, made famous by a particular adaptation but remade numerous times nonetheless. The 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi was the inspiration for the 1940 animated film that won two Oscars, for its score and for the now-classic song “When You Wish Upon…

Exclusive Video Interview: Michael Ausiello on Seeing His Life Story on the Big Screen in ‘Spoiler Alert’

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. Michael Ausiello has been writing about television for more than two decades, first as a reporter for TV Guide and now as editor of TVLine. online pharmacy chloroquine over the counter with best prices today in the USA Ausiello has also seen cinematic value…

The Cleaning Lady : Exclusive Video Interview with Actor Sean Lew

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. Fox’s The Cleaning Lady is back for an intense second season after an astounding debut in season one, continuing to follow Thony De La Rosa (Élodie Yung) as she balances caring for her family and working for the mob. One of the standout stars…

DOC NYC Film Review – ‘Louis Armstrong’s Black and Blues’ is a Deep and Resounding Portrait of the Musician

When Louis Armstrong died in 1971, newscaster Walter Cronkite proclaimed, “We aren’t saying goodbye to Louis tonight, because a man’s music does not die with him, certainly not this man’s.” Armstrong was enormously influential and it’s difficult to find another musician who has left such an enduring mark on the industry and the world in…

Exclusive Video Interview: Demián Bichir on the Unconventional Vampire Series ‘Let the Right One In’ and Working with Great Directors

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. Showtime’s Let the Right One In is a stirring reimagining of the 2004 Swedish novel that has been adapted as both a Swedish and American film, following a protective father, Mark (Demián Bichir), who secures human blood to feed his twelve-year-old vampire daughter Eleanor…

Film Review – ‘Disenchanted’ is a Perfectly Suitable Sequel to an Inventive Original

Fifteen years ago, Amy Adams starred as Giselle, a woman transplanted from an animated fairytale world into live-action New York City in Enchanted. Much has changed in the time since then, even just for Adams and for the studio that made the film. Adams has earned five additional Oscar nominations and regularly gets top billing…