Edward Moran

Edward Moran
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Edward Moran began his journalistic career many decades ago as a theater and cinema reviewer for Show Business and the New York Theater Review. More recently he contributed film reviews to hosokinema.com and Movie Sleuth. His writings have appeared in publications as diverse as the Times Literary Supplement, Publishers Weekly, the Paris Review, and the Massachusetts Review. Moran also edited a memoir by Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Christine Choy. He served as literary advisor to her film Hyam Plutzik: American Poet, which was the keynote film in the American Perspectives series at the 2007 Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin.
Edward Moran began his journalistic career many decades ago as a theater and cinema reviewer for Show Business and the New York Theater Review. More recently he contributed film reviews to hosokinema.com and Movie Sleuth. His writings have appeared in publications as diverse as the Times Literary Supplement, Publishers Weekly, the Paris Review, and the Massachusetts Review. Moran also edited a memoir by Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Christine Choy. He served as literary advisor to her film Hyam Plutzik: American Poet, which was the keynote film in the American Perspectives series at the 2007 Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin.

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New York Jewish Film Festival : Fioretta Traces the Ancestral Roots of a Jewish Family in Europe

© 2023 Rubber Ring Films LLC While looking into a yellowing book owned by his great-grandfather, the Jewish American poet Hyam Plutzik wrote what is perhaps the best summary of Matthew Mishory’s touching film, Fioretta. After perusing the faded pages of the century-old book, Plutzik wrote: “I am troubled by the blank fields, the speechless graves./Since…

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@Photo by Philippe Bossé/Philippe Bossé – © 2022 PARAMOUNT PICTURES. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Fallout from the Israeli-Hamas conflict over Gaza has left its mark in the entertainment industry, with Melissa Barrera being one of the prime casualties. Barrera, one of the stars of Scream 7, was fired from her role in November over pro-Palestinian comments…

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@Photo by JOJO WHILDEN – © 2010 Fighter, LLC. All Rights Reserved David O.Russell has been selected to direct a biopic about singer Linda Ronstadt, which is now in pre-production. In it,  Selena Gomez will be playing the singer, who retired in 2011, later disclosing she could no longer sing due to progressive supranuclear palsy….