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Weekend Excursion

SARAH ENGLAND/YH

While Yalies have been focused selecting spring term classes, the 10th Annual New York Jewish Film Festival kicked off on Sun., Jan. 14, a project of the city's Jewish Museum. Yet students need not fret that they have sacrificed the intellectual experience of Kaplan's Yana's Friends or Freedman's Uncle Chatzkel simply because they could not decide between computer science and calculus; there's still time to catch a train into New York and enjoy some screenings. There's only one problem: the festival rivals Yale's Blue Book in breadth, and you only have so many days before your 8:30 a.m. section.

The New York premiere of Karel Kachyna's Hamele, showing 7:15 p.m. on Sat., Jan. 20, tells the story of a Ukrainian woman who leaves her small Jewish community for the big city, where she falls for a man who has abandoned his own religious beliefs. In Paris, a woman investigates the disappearance of Alfred Katz, a Trotskyite, in Gilles Bourdos' Disparus, showing at 1 p.m. on Tues., Jan. 23. Anthony Wall's The Martin Epstein Story describes the life of the Beatles' gay Jewish manager (Sun., Jan. 21 at 8:15).The list goes on: from

Goldschmidt and Kan-Tor's Rhodes to Peace to Saäl's The Snail Position; from Nepal to the United States to Germany in three films (Seder Trek, Zyklon Portrait, and Martin); from a night club to a family reunion (Vulcan Junction and First of the Name); from the first jazz musician of the communist world to the first woman to bring Yiddish folk music to the world's stages (The Jazzman from the Gulag and Isa Kremer: The People's Diva). In other words, the Festival offers more than you will be able to see and, most likely, more Jewish films than the average person has ever heard of.

Thus, a film festival which annouces itself as specialized—a Jewish Film Festival—turns out to have enormously diversified, which is more than you can say for the Chapel Street Blockbuster. Get away for a day or two from your newly registered classes amd take advantage of a world-class festival that's only a train ride away. —Diana M. Aleman

The Walter Reade Theater is located at 165 West 65th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue on the plaza level. Ticket are $9 for the general public and $5 for Jewish Museum and Film Society members and donors. For group sales information, call 212-875-5601, Monday through Friday after 1 p.m. The Box office is open from 1 to 12:30 p.m. daily until 15 minutes after the start of the day's last show (usually between 8 and 9 pm). Cash only. To confirm box office hours and schedule, call 212-875-5600. For more information, call the Jewish Museum at 212-423-3338.

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