Coming Home, has died. He was 84.
Jones died Monday at his home in Los Angeles after a battle with Lewy body dementia, his daughter Leslie Jones, an Oscar-nominated film editor just like her dad, told
The Hollywood Reporter. She called him her mentor, a gentle and generous man and a comedic genius. He truly was the sweetest guy.
His father, Harmon Jones, was an Oscar-nominated film editor, too, honored for his work on Elia Kazan s
Gentleman s Agreement (1947).
Robert C. Jones enjoyed regular collaborations with directors Stanley Kramer, Hal Ashby, Arthur Hiller and Warren Beatty during his career, and he was presented with a lifetime achievement award in 2014 from the American Cinema Editors.
An illuminating comparison of Ann Petry s
The Street and Gwendolyn Brooks s
Maud Martha with Cynthia Kadohata s
The Floating World and Chang-rae Lee s
Native Speaker by You-me Park and Gayle Wald ( Native Daughters in the Promised Land: Gender, Race, and the Question of Separate Spheres,
AL 70: 607-33) establishes the extent to which minority literature represents the boundaries between public and private spheres in the United States and how these boundaries reinforce and overlap class and gender lines. The critics conclusion is that both the African American and Asian American groups are feminized (in the sense of being marked under the sign of the feminine).
The Barrier in Experience: The Holocaust Films of Canadian Survivor Jack Kuper
Jeremy Maron
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May 2020
Jack Kuper is an author, filmmaker and Holocaust survivor from Toronto (Fig. 1). He immigrated to Canada in 1947 at the age of 15 as part of the Canadian Jewish Congress’ War Orphans Project, which brought to Canada approximately one thousand Jewish children orphaned by the Holocaust.
1 Kuper has published two autobiographical novels –
Child of the Holocaust (1967), about his experiences on the run and in hiding in rural Poland during the Second World War, and
After the Smoke Cleared (1994), which covers his post-war immigration and assimilation into Canada, and his adulthood.
During a “normal” year, I tend to see between 150 and 170 new movies, most of them at cinemas. During the peculiar year of 2020, I just missed the 100 mark. Eleven of them were in cinemas, the rest were either DVDs or links on my TV or my desk top computer. Damn! I miss the majesty of movie theaters and their big screens.
Yet, even with limited viewing and size restrictions, it wasn’t difficult to come across some terrific films. Here are my favorites of the year. No numbers, no countdown to number one. They are the collective Top 10, alphabetically, followed by a handful of close runners-up.
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