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dear-indies · 1 year
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Hello Dear Indies! Could you suggest some fcs for older or close in age brothers (siblings ok too) for Jennifer Connelly please? Thank you so much your help and any time you can offer!
Jon Favreau (1966) Ashkenazi Jewish / Italian, French-Canaidan, German.
Sean Kanan (1966) Ashkenazi Jewish / German and Irish.
Liev Schreiber (1967) Ashkenazi Jewish / German, Swiss-German, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Norwegian, Belgian/Flemish, Scottish, and Welsh.
Jack Black (1969) Ashkenazi Jewish / German, as well as Northern Irish, Scottish, English, remote French and Welsh.
Michael Bunin (1970) Ashkenazi Jewish / Italian.
David Arquette (1971) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, French-Canadian, Swiss-German, German, Scottish, Irish, Welsh.
Sean Astin (1971) Ashkenazi Jewish / Irish and German.
Half-siblings:
Kim Bodnia (1965) Ashkenazi Jewish.
Richard Gabai (1964) Ashkenazi Jewish / Sephardi Jewish.
H. Jon Benjamin (1966) Ashkenazi Jewish.
David Schwimmer (1966) Ashkenazi Jewish.
Alan Basche (1968) Ashkenazi Jewish.
Paul Rudd (1969) Ashkenazi Jewish.
Josh Stamberg (1970) Ashkenazi Jewish.
Adam Pascal (1970) Ashkenazi Jewish.
Mark Feuerstein (1971) Ashkenazi Jewish.
Eli Roth (1972) Ashkenazi Jewish.
Sasha Roiz (1973) Ashkenazi Jewish.
Josh Radnor (1974) Ashkenazi Jewish, as well as 1/8th Irish, 1/8th possibly English.
Hey anon! Here are all the suggestions I could find with the help of the lovely @nicolemaiines and @antlerqueer - I've bolded those with light eyes for convenience!
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chanelmirabelle · 2 years
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Henry Cavill family template ! requested by @eileen-stuff
father -> daniel day-lewis (64) could play 58-70 ; ethnicity : english, northern irish, remote welsh, ashkenazi jewish
mother -> kristin scott thomas (61) could play 54-66 ; ethnicity : welsh, english, as well as 1/16th dutch
aunt -> jennifer connelly (51) could play 45-56 ; ethnicity : irish, norwegian, ashkenazi jewish
older brother -> matt bomer (44) could play 39-48; ethnicity : english, welsh, scottish, irish, scots-irish/northern Irish, swiss-german, german, remote french
base -> henry cavill (38) could play 32-43 ; ethnicity : english, irish, some scottish
older sister -> meghan ory (39) could play 33-44 ; ethnicity : ashkenazi jewish, possibly other
younger sister -> margaret qualley (27) could play 21-33 ; ethnicity : english, french, scottish, irish and welsh, 1/16th belgian/walloon, 1/32 dutch, 1/32 belgian/flemish
younger brother -> aidan gallagher (18) could play 14-22 ; ethnicity : english, scottish, irish, norwegian, swiss-german, distant dutch, ashkenazi jewish
cousin -> logan lerman (30) could play 25-35 ; ethnicity : ashkenazi jewish, possibly others
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svejarph · 3 years
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could you help find a few fcs for a rich muse? no specific gender any will do xx
I’m also assuming you don’t care about age or ethnicity! this is the sort of question where i’d go “well any fc can do,” but here are a lot that can fit! It took so long because there’s just so many possibilities!
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Ipek Filiz Yazici - 19 - Turkish Vivoree Esclito - 20 - Bisaya Filipino Danielle Rose Russell - 21 - white Hunter Schafer - 22 - white - trans! Abigail Cowen - 23 - white Biran Damla Yilmaz - 23 - Turkish Lana Condor - 23 - Vietnamese Peyton Roi List - 23 - white Sydney Park - 23 - Korean, African-American Barbie Ferreira - 24 - white Brazilian Hailee Steinfeld - 24 - Boholano Filipino, African American, Ashkenazi Jewish, white Kathryn Newton - 24 - white Moon Ga Young - 24 - Korean Ahsen Eroglu - 26 - Turkish Margaret Qualley - 26 - white Ozge Ozacar - 26 - Turkish Taylor Russell - 26 - African-Canadian, white Chi Pu - 27 - Vietnamese Elizabeth Gillies - 27 - white Hande Ercel - 27 - Turkish Inanna Sarkis - 27 - Assyrian, white Pinar Deniz - 27 - Turkish Yalitza Aparicio - 27 - Mixtec, Triqui Ayca Aysin Turan - 28 - Turkish Davika Hoorne - 28 - Thai, white Dilraba Dilmurat - 28 - Uyghur Hari Nef - 28 - Ashkenazi Jewish - trans! - she has so many looks and they’re so amazing i’m crying over how pretty she is Medalion Rahimi - 28 - Iranian, Mizrahi Jewish Neslihan Atagul - 28 - white Im Jinah - 29 - Korean KiKi Layne - 29 - African-American Shailene Woodley - 29 - African-American, Creole, white - totally not just saying her bc i’ve seen her used as a kid to a ceo and loved that muse Burcu Biricik - 31 - Turkish Farah Zeynep Abdullah - 31 - Turkish, Iraqi Turkish, white Jeon Yeo-been - 31 - Korean Song Yi - 31 - Chinese Kang Han Na - 32 - Korean Alina Serban - 33 - Romani Ashleigh Murray - 33 - African-American Cleopatra Coleman - 33 - Afro-Jamaican, white Da’Vine Joy Randolph - 34 - African-American Poyd Treechada/Nong Poy - 34 - Thai - trans! Satomi Ishihara - 34 - Japanese Elcin Sangu - 35 - white Nathalie Kelley - 35 - Argentinian, Quechua Peruvian Sonam Kapoor Ahuja - 35 - Punjabi Indian DeWanda Wise - 36 - African-American Franciska Farkas - 36 - Romani Sitora Farmonova - 36 - Uzbek Angela Sarafyan - 37 - Armenian Kate Siegel - 38 - Ashkenazi Jewish Lee Hanee - 38 - Korean Constance Wu - 39 - Taiwanese Natalie Dormer - 39 - white Asli Orcan - 40 - Turkish Rinko Kikuchi - 40 - Japanese Van Veronica Ngo - 42 - Vietnamese Sara Martins - 43 - Cape Verdean Jessica Chastain - 44 - white Jen Richards - 46 - white - trans! Sarah Shahi - 49 - Iranian, white Jennifer Connelly - 50 - Ashkenazi Jewish, white Michelle Gomez - 54 - white Kristin Scott Thomas - 60 - white Christine Baranski - 68 - white Tantoo Cardinal - 70 - Metis of Cree, Dene, Nakoda Sioux, white Dolly Parton - 75 - white
men
Gulf Kanawut - 23 - Thai Wolfgang Novogratz - 23 - white Shameik Moore - 25 - Afro-Jamaican David Corenswet - 27 - Ashkenazi Jewish, white Nam Joohyuk - 27 - Korean Ronen Rubinstein - 27 - Ashkenazi Jewish Gregg Sulkin - 28 - Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish Woo Do Hwan - 28 - Korean Darren Wang - 29 - Taiwanese Park Hyungsik - 29 - Korean Broderick Hunter - 30 - African-American Jack Lowden - 30 - white Dev Patel - 31 - Gujarati Indian Laith Ashley - 31 - Dominican - trans! Cody Fern - 32 - white Gao Hanyu - 32 - Chinese Baris Alpaykut - 33 - Turkish Baris Arduc - 33 - Turkish Caglar Ertugrul - 33 - Turkish Kerem Bursin - 33 - Turkish Robbie Amell - 33 - white Sen Mitsuji - 33 - Japanese, white Lewis Tan - 34 - Chinese, white Michael B. Jordan - 34 - African-American Richard Madden - 34 - white Sanjar Madi - 34 - Kazakh Yahya Abdul-Mateen II - 34 - African-American Birkan Sokullu - 35 - Turkish, white Dave Franco - 35 - Ashkenazi Jewish, white Zhang Han - 36 - Chinese Dan Levy - 37 - Ashkenazi Jewish Domhnall Gleeson - 37 - white Gwilym Lee - 37 - white Kivanc Tatlitug - 37 - Turkish, white Max Riemelt - 37 - white Alex Blue Davis - 38 - white - trans! Sung Hoon - 38 - Korean Daveed Diggs - 39 - Ashkenazi Jewish, African-American Lee Joon Gi - 39 - Korean Sam Heughan - 40 - white Kristofer Hivju - 42 - white Lee Pace - 42 - white Nuno Lopes - 42 - white Oscar Isaac - 42 - Cuban, Guatemalan, white Matthew Goode - 43 - white Nicholas Gonzalez - 45 - Mexican Pedro Pascal - 46 - white Chilean, white Peruvian Hrithik Roshan - 47 - Punjabi Indian, Bengali Indian Omari Hardwick - 47 - African-American Waris Ahluwalia - 47 - Indian Adam Beach - 48 - Saulteaux, white Idris Elba - 48 - Sierra Leonean, Ghanian Michael Landes - 48 - white Timothy Olyphant - 52 - Ashkenazi Jewish, white Zahn McClarnon - 54 - Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux, Sihasapa Lakota Sioux Keanu Reeves - 56 - Haiwaiian, Chinese, white Greg Kinnear - 57 - white Viggo Mortensen - 62 - white Gregory Zaragoza - 66 - Akimel O’odham, Mexican
nonbinary
Nico Tortorella - 32 - white - genderfluid! Munroe Bergdorf - 33 - Afro-Jamaican, white - trans & genderqueer! Elliot Page - 34 - white - trans & nonbinary! Asia Kate Dillon - 36 - Ashkenazi Jewish Sara Ramirez - 45 - Mexican, white
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regalpotato · 4 years
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Snowpiercer (TV series) is like Game of Thrones. 
Except scifi instead of fantasy
And good instead of shit
And the two main characters are played by a jewish woman and a moc as opposed to cishet white men
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aion-rsa · 3 years
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Once Upon a Time in America Is a Movie That Can Never Be Too Long
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Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in America is as epic as The Godfather, gorier than Goodfellas, and as streetwise as Mean Streets. It tells a full history, from childhood to old age, street hustles to political suicides, community toilets to opium dens. The version which is right now available on Netflix has been amazingly restored by Italy’s Bologna Cinematheque L’Immagine Ritrovata lab. I don’t think I have ever seen the film so clear, and it is a perennial to me, as is The Godfather.
It’s true, even the most devoted gangster fan and cinephile doesn’t watch Once Upon a Time in America as often as The Godfather, and it’s got Robert De Niro at his most gangta. For one thing, Leone’s film has never been as accessible. It is not shown regularly on any kind of broadcast channel, and even the film’s own producers thought it was too long for people to sit through. Pop culture history makes it sound like Once Upon a Time in America had a short version that ran 10 hours and a long version that ran a week.
How Long is Too Long for Once Upon a Time in America?
The truth is, Leone did have up to 10 hours of finished cinematic material, which he cut down to six hours. He wanted to put it out in two parts, much like the initial saga of The Godfather was extended into a sequel. Leone’s original vision for the film was two 180-minute motion pictures which would be shown on consecutive days. After the initial run, he planned to edit the two parts down for a general release which would run as one four-hour and 29-minute film.
Film distributors convinced Leone to release a “Director’s Cut” feature at a running time of 3 hours and 49-minutes, with no intermission, which was the version shown at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival (Martin Scorsese led the push to restore the original version, which was shown at Cannes in 2012, though it’s still missing 18 minutes). This version caught on in Europe. But American audiences saw an even more butchered cut in 1984. The U.S. financial backers, The Ladd Company, founded by actor Alan Ladd’s son, cut 90 minutes from the already-edited film, bringing it to two hours and 19 minutes. But they also restructured the film, cutting the flashbacks-within-flashbacks to present the story chronologically.
This most affects the opening, which is an extended action sequence told with the expressionism of a silent film and the nihilism of post-war Italian neorealism. It is a bit of a jumble coming out of an opium dream. Noodles is on the run, behind in the game, and stoned out of mind. The flashbacks create a cognitive dissonance, and the audience experiences the freefall in a visceral way. By the time they land, it’s in the beginning of a story, which may all be an opium dream. The longer version did play at art cinemas in the U.S. Having seen both on their initial release, this writer preferred the long version of the crime classic, but will admit, they could have answered a phone in the opening sequence before it rang 30 times.
I’d Watch an 8-Hour “Making of” Documentary on This
The production of the film is worthy of a star-studded documentary itself. Leone devoted most of his adult life to getting it done. He turned down The Godfather to make it. Once Upon a Time in America is the final entry in Leone’s “Once Upon a Time” trilogy. It followed Once Upon a Time in the West (C’era Una Volta Il West) (1968), and Once Upon a Time in the Revolution, which came out in 1971 as Duck, You Sucker!. One of the first America drafts was written by Norman Mailer, the author of the novel The Naked and the Dead, and Marilyn: A Biography, the 1973 Marilyn Monroe biography which first speculated the Hollywood icon had been killed by the FBI and CIA. Leone told American Film magazine the novelist was not “not a writer for movies,” but wasn’t satisfied with a screenplay until the end of 1974.
Leone first became interested in making Once Upon a Time in America while making Once Upon a Time in the West. He came across the book The Hoods, which is described on its cover flap as “a notorious mob boss of the syndicate tells the full inside story of hired killing and crime operations.” Published in August 1952, it was very open about Jewish gangster life during the 1920s and ‘30s. It was written by Hershel “Noodles” Goldberg under the alias Harry Grey.
Goldberg also wrote the 1958 book, Portrait of a Mobster, about Jewish mob legend Arthur “Dutch Schultz” Flegenheimer. He wrote The Hoods while serving time in Sing Sing prison. Leone met with Grey in a New York City bar, according to Christopher Frayling’s 2012 book, Sergio Leone: Something to Do with Death. The author was still in hiding from his former mob associates. The renowned Spaghetti Western director didn’t find a heroic figure like “Paul Muni in Scarface or James Cagney in The Public Enemy,” in the bar. Instead there was a poor man “with a machine gun in his hand and a Borsalino on his head.”
I’d watch a 12-Hour Version of the Original Cast of the Unmade Film
Leone began casting in 1975. When The Hoods begins, the leading characters are teenage criminals. Richard Dreyfuss was first cast as young Noodles. The older version of the character was to be played by James Cagney, who hadn’t made a film since Billy Wilder’s One, Two, Three in 1961. He wouldn’t make another until 1984, the year Leone’s film was finally released, when he appeared in Miloš Forman’s Ragtime. That film also stars Elizabeth McGovern, who plays adult Deborah in Once Upon a Time in America. French actor Gerard Depardieu was cast as young Max, and the part would pass to veteran actor Jean Gabin, an icon of French gangster films.
This is true dream casting. Dreyfuss made his mob movie bones playing Baby Face Nelson in Dillinger (1973) and would go on to become an acting institution. Cagney was an acting legend, who began his career creating young gangster icons. Judging from the outstanding acting performances Leone got from Hollywood Golden Age actors like Henry Fonda, it would have been a masterwork.
Leone brought out unsuspected feats of greatness from veteran actors who had been subject to the rules of mainstream cinema. It would also be wonderful just to watch Cagney and Gabin create onscreen dynamite together. Meanwhile Gabin is probably best known as the lead in Jean Renoir’s 1937 antiwar masterpiece, La Grande Illusion. But that was also the year he played “The Prince of Plunder” in director Julien Duvivier’s Pépé le Moko (1937). That gangster-in-hiding title role established him firmly in French crime cinema, and it should be seen by any fan of Casablanca or Algiers. He also starred in Jacques Becker’s mob film Touchez pas au grisbi (Don’t Touch the Loot) (1954), and plays the capo of the Manalese crime family in director Henri Verneuil’s The Sicilian Clan (1969).
I would gleefully binge 10 hours of Gabin and Cagney rehearsing.
And I Could Watch the Final Cast All Weekend
I’d also binge rehearsals for the cast that ultimately wound up filming Once Upon a Time in America. Robert De Niro, as grown-up David “Noodles” Aaronson, was in his prime. He was already gangster film royalty, having played in The Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight (1971), Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets (1973), and as young Vito Corleone in The Godfather, Part II. His Jake La Motta took a career-killing dive for the mob in Raging Bull (1980). But while De Niro also proved he could play psychopaths like Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver (1976), that part was better filled by his co-star.
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James Woods, who plays the adult Maximilian “Max” Bercovicz, created one of the most convincing sociopaths of crime cinema in The Onion Field (1979). He also brought one of the sleaziest characters in science fiction to David Cronenberg’s 1983 cult masterpiece, Videodrome. For gangster and crime film fans, De Niro and Woods together are like seeing Cagney work with Edward G. Robinson in Smart Money (1931), Humphrey Bogart in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) and The Roaring Twenties (1939), or George Raft in Each Dawn I Die (1939).
While Joe Pesci’s crime boss Frankie Monaldi is so authentic in Once Upon a Time in America that it looks like he was picked out of a lineup, Burt Young’s performance as his brother Joe Monaldi is pure cinema verité. He almost makes you want to take a shower. The only relief comes from watching Treat Williams as a union leader who takes a bath.
Tuesday Weld, who plays Carol, is an icon of licentious cinema. She was Stanley Kubrick’s first choice to play the title role in Lolita (1962), and the wildest orgy enthusiast in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977). Weld started acting as a teenager in the 1956 jukebox musical Rock! Rock! Rock!, and brought more tension than Steve McQueen and Ann-Margret combined in the 1965 gambling classic, The Cincinnati Kid, which also starred Edward G. Robinson. Quentin Tarantino would probably be proud to recommend Weld’s filmography as a film binge subject.
Once Upon a Time in America also began production in 1980 but was scuttled by an Actor’s Strike. It would have seen Tom Berenger and Paul Newman playing the Noodles characters. For Max, Leone considered Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Harvey Keitel, John Malkovich, and John Belushi. Brooke Shields was set to play young Deborah, which went on to be Jennifer Connelly’s film debut. She would go on to play in Labyrinth (1986) with David Bowie, as well as to an acclaimed career as an adult in movies like Requiem for a Dream (2000) and win an Academy Award for A Beautiful Mind (2001).
What’s in a Bad Reputation?
The Godfather is briskly paced, relatable, and every sequence is perfectly framed. Had Once Upon a Time in America been split into two parts, as the director intended, it may have become just as iconic. Coppola saves the Corleone family backstory for the second film, where it sits comfortably as it mirrors one rise with another.
In today’s environment, where binge-watching is the norm, Once Upon a Time in America should be reevaluated on that basis. People are more accustomed to long-long form entertainment, because they have readily available short-form at their fingertips on apps like TikTok.  Alejandro Jodorowsky wanted to make a 10-hour adaptation of the science fiction novel Dune. He got the same blowback as Leone.
“Myself, I make an enormous project of a film that will not be a normal film, 14, 16, maybe 19 hours,” Jodorowsky told Den of Geek while promoting his film Psychomagic. “Hollywood thought I was crazy. A picture [should be] one hour and half or two hours, no more. But now, with series television, you see eight chapters. The short pictures are dying, it’s not anymore necessary. We need to make a serious chapter, you know? Ten hours.”
Today, Jodorowsky’s Dune would be a Netflix miniseries–or at the very least two films, as enjoyed by director Denis Villeneuve. Once Upon a Time in America is far more watchable than its legend declares, and Leone was a filmmaker who should have been afforded his cut. “He was a real artist of industrial movies,” Jodorowsky told Den of Geek. “You need to be very intelligent to do that, and he did it. The picture, all of his pictures, I love these pictures.”
I have watched The Godfather, The Godfather, Part II, The Godfather, Part III, Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone, the box set collectors’ edition of The Godfather Saga, and still have a recording of the first time the film ran with all the deleted scenes restored. I will watch them all again. But there is room for more than one Gangster Epic. Once Upon a Time in America’s reputation as a sloppy, overlong film is undeserved. It bears repeated viewing.
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June Brown (1927) English, Irish, Scottish, Italian, Sephardic Jewish - actress.
Etty Fraser (1931) Brazilian [Polish Jewish, English] - actress.
Eva Wilma (1933) Brazilian [German, Ukrainian Jewish], Argentinian - actress.
Shelley Morrison (1936) Sephardic Jewish (specifically, Spanish Jewish) - actress.
Linda Lavin (1937) Ashkenazi Jewish - singer and actress.
Connie Stevens (1938) 50% Italian (including Sicilian) 25% Irish 25% Ashkenazi Jewish - actress, singer, producer, director, screenwriter, cinematographer, and editor.
Lainie Kazan (1940) Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish - actress and singer.
Diane von Fürstenberg (1946) Ashkenazi Jewish / Sephardi Jewish - fashion designer.
Peggy Lipton (1946) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress and model.
Erika Slezak (1946) Czech/Moravian, Austrian, Ashkenazi Jewish / Dutch - actress.
Marisa Berenson (1947) Ashkenazi Jewish, Swiss-French, Breton, Polish, Italian - actress and model.
Olivia Newton-John (1948) Welsh / Ashkenazi Jewish, German - actress.
Judith Light (1949) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress and producer.
Angelyne (1950) Ashkenazi Jewish - singer, actress and model.
Ellen Greene (1951) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Melanie Mayron (1952) Sephardi Jewish / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress and director.
Gali Atari (1953) Yemenite Jewish - singer and actress.
Amy Irving (1953) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, along with Welsh, Northern Irish/Scots-Irish, German, Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish - actress.
Shari Belafonte (1954) Afro-Jamaican, Dutch Jewish, Irish, Scottish / African-American - actress, model, writer, and singer. Sh
Gale Anne Hurd (1955) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Irish, 1/16 Mexican - producer.
Karen Finley (1956) Romani, Unspecified Native American, Jewish / Scottish, Irish - musician, poet, and performance artist.
Laura Morante (1956) Italian (including Sicilian), Jewish - actress.
Fran Drescher (1957) Ukrainian Jewish, Romanian Jewish, Russian Jewish - actress.
Joanelle Romero (1957) Chiricahua Apache, Cheyenne / Mescalero Apache, Sephardi Jewish - actress, filmmaker, and recording artist.
Nancy Lee Grahn (1958) German, English / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Talia Balsam (1959) Ashkenazi Jewish, Dutch, English, some German, Italian - actress.
Vivian Kubrick (1960) Ashkenazi Jewish / German, Irish, Portuguese, possibly Romani and other - filmmaker and composer.
Sonia Benezra (1960) Moroccan Jewish / Spanish Jewish - actress and radio personality.
Cathryn Michon (1961) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, French, Scottish, Irish, distant German - filmmaker, actress, writer, and comedian.
Gabrielle Carteris (1961) Ashkenazi Jewish / Greek - actress.
Timna Brauer (1961) Israeli, Yemenite Jewish - singer.
K.D. Lang (1961) Sioux, Russian Jewish, Icelandic, German, Scottish, Irish, English - singer-songwriter and actress.
Tawny Kitaen (1961) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Scottish - actress and media personality.
Maggie Wheeler (1961) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Gina Belafonte (1961) 62.5% Jewish (Ashkenazi, some Sephardi) 25% Afro-Jamaican 12.5% Irish and Scottish - actress and producer.
Rita Yahan-Farouz (1962) Iranian Jewish - singer and actress.
Gina Gershon (1962) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Paula Abdul (1962) Syrian Jewish / Ukrainian Jewish, Russian Jewish - singer-songwriter, actress, and dancer.
Débora Bloch (1963) Brazilian [Ukrainian Jewish, possibly other] - actress.
Emmanuelle Béart (1963) Sephardi Jewish, Ashkenazi Jewish / Belgian [Walloon], Greek - actress.
Etti Ankri (1963) Tunisian Jewish - singer-songwriter.
Cláudia Ohana (1963) Brazilian [Jewish, possibly other] - actress.
Phoebe Cates (1963) ¾ Russian Jewish, ¼ Chinese - actress, singer, and ex model.
Lisa Cholodenko (1964) Ashkenazi Jewish - screenwriter and film director.
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (1964) 25% Sephardi Jewish 37.5% Italian 37.5% French - actress, screenwriter, and film director.
Gloria Reuben (1964) Jamaican (African, Ashkenazi/Sephardi Jewish, likely some English) - singer, actress, and producer.
Mathilda May (1965) Greek Jewish, Turkish Jewish / Swedish - actress.
Rosalinda Serfaty (1965) Venezuelan [Amazigh Moroccan Jewish, possibly other] - actress.
Lesli Kay (1965) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Pamela Adlon(1966) Ashkenazi Jewish / English (mother, who converted to Judaism) - actress, voice actress, screenwriter, and producer.
Lisa Edelstein (1966) Russian Jewish / Polish Jewish - actress and playwright.
Rachel True (1966) African-American / German Jewish - actress and ex model.
Lori Alan (1966) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Irish - actress and comedian.
Orna Banai (1966) Iranian Jewish - actress and comedian.
Tory Burch (1966) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, possibly other - fashion designer and businessperson.
Gina Bellman (1966) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Laura Silverm (1966) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Lisa Bonet (1967) African-American / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Oksana Fandera (1967) Romani, Ukrainian / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Meskie Shibru-Sivan (1967) Ethiopian Jewish - actress and singer.
Joely Fisher(1967) 62.5% Ashkenazi Jewish 25% Italian (including Sicilian) 12.5% Irish - actress and singer.
Zehava Ben (1968) Moroccan Jewish - singer.
Rena Sofer (1968) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
D’arcy Wretzky (1968) Ashkenazi Jewish / Scandinavian - musician.
Sophie Okonedo (1968) Nigerian / Polish Jewish, Russian Jewish - actress.
Robin Weigert (1969) 75% Ashkenazi Jewish 25% German - actress.
Rain Pryor (1969) African-American / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress and comedian.
Amy Landecker (1969) Ashkenazi Jewish, English, German, Scottish, Dutch, Irish - actress.
Shiva Rose (1969) Iranian / Ashkenazi Jewish, Irish, Welsh - actress, activist, and blogger.
Soledad Villamil (1969) Argentinian [Spanish, Italian / Jewish, possibly other] - actress and singer.
Achinoam Nini (1969) Yemenite Jewish - singer.
Ayelet Zurer (1969) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Alysia Reiner (1970) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress and producer.
Monique Gabriela Curnen (1970) Puerto Rican / Ashkenazi Jewish, Irish, possibly other - actress.
Gabrielle Anwar (1970) Indian, Austrian Jewish / English - actress.
Aure Atika (1970) Sephardi Jewish / Unknown - actress, writer and director
Liz Cho (1970) Korean / Jewish - tv journalist.
Caron Bernstein (1970) Ashkenazi Jewish / Dutch [including remote Frisian], as well as small amount of French and German - model, actress, singer, and songwriter.
Jennifer Connelly (1970) Irish, Norwegian / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Rachel Weisz (1970) Hungarian Jewish, Italian, Austrian Jewish - actress.
Lola Glaudini (1971) Italian / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Miriam Shor (1971) Ashkenazi Jewish / Swedish, possibly other - actress.
Rebecca Creskoff (1971) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, German, possibly other - actress.
Winona Ryder (1971) Ashkenazi Jewish / Unspecified Other, likely Belgian - actress.
Michaela Watkins (1971) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress and comedian.
Dana International (1972) Yemenite Jewish / Romanian Jewish - singer. - Trans!
Maya Rudolph (1972) African-American / Lithuanian Jewish, Russian Jewish, German Jewish, Hungarian Jewish - actress and singer.
Gillian Vigman (1972) Ashkenazi Jewish / English (mother, who converted to Judaism) - actress.
Jessica Hynes (1972) Ashkenazi Jewish, Welsh, English, likely Dutch - actress.
Andrea Savage (1973) 3/4 Ashkenazi Jewish, 1/4 Greek - actress, comedian, and writer.
Elsa Lunghini (1973) Sephardi Jewish / Italian - singer and actress.
Tara Strong (1973) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Maggie Siff (1974) Ashkenazi Jewish / Irish, Swedish - actress/
Carmit Bachar (1974) Israeli Jewish / Indonesian, Chinese, Dutch - singer, dancer, actress, model, and showgirl.
Kidada Jones (1974) Russian Jewish, Latvian Jewish / African-American [West/Central African], with some English, Scottish, Welsh - actress, model, and fashion designer.
Arianne Zucker (1974) Ashkenazi Jewish, other - actress and model.
Alyson Hannigan (1974) Irish / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Emmanuelle Chriqui (1975) Moroccan Jewish - actress.
Staci Keanan (1975) Ashkenazi Jewish, possibly other - actress.
Sienna Guillory (1965) Jewish, English, possibly other - actress and model.
Bahar Soomekh (1975) Persian Jewish - actress.
Mayim Bialik (1975) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress, writer, neuroscientist.
Melissa Joan Hart (1976) 25% Slovenian 12.5% Ashkenazi Jewish 12.5% German 50% Irish, possibly other - actress, director, singer and producer.
Elisa Tovati (1976) Russian, Moroccan Jewish - singer, actress, and tv personality.
Rashida Jones (1976) Russian Jewish, Latvian Jewish / African-American [West/Central African], with some English, Scottish, Welsh - actress, writer, singer, and producer.
Natalia Livingston (1976) German, English, Irish, some French, Mexica, Ashkenazi Jewish, Mexican, possibly Swiss-German and German - actress.
Basma Ahmed Sayyed Hassan (1976) Egyptian, Jewish - actress.
Avital Abergel (1977) Moroccan Jewish - actress.
Miri Bohadana (1977) Moroccan Jewish - actress, model, and presenter.
Maya Bouskilla (1977) Moroccan Jewish, Sephardi Jewish - singer.
Shoshana Bean (1977) Ashkenazi Jewish, English, at least 1/16th Irish / Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish - actress, singer, and songwriter.
Amber Benson (1977) Ashkenazi Jewish / Irish, possibility other - actress, director, writer, and producer.
Maggie Gyllenhaal (1977) Swedish, German, English / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Noa Tishby (1977) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Jordana Spiro (1977) Ashkenazi Jewish / French, Irish, English - actress.
Becky Griffin (1977) Yemenite Jewish / Irish American - model, TV presenter and actress.
Ebon Moss-Bachrach (1978) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Sarit Hadad (1978) Tunisian Jewish, Mountain Jewish - singer.
Josie Maran (1978) Ashkenazi Jewish / Dutch, French, German - model, actress, and entrepreneur.
Lindsay Hartley (1978) Ashkenazi Jewish / Greek, Italian - actress and singer.
Yael Naim (1978) Sephardi Jewish - singer.
Shiri Appleby (1978) Ashkenazi Jewish / Moroccan, Sephardi Jewish - actress.
Karina Smirnoff (1978) Greek, Russian, Jewish - professional ballroom dancer.
Ayala Ingedashet (1978) Ethiopian Jewish - singer.
Inga Cadranel (1978) Ashkenazi Jewish, Spanish, Egyptian / Icelandic - actress.
Liraz Charhi (1978) Iranian Jewish - actress.
Fay Wolf (1978) Ashkenazi Jewish / Afro-Antiguan - actress, pianist, singer, songwriter, and professional organizer.
Summer Phoenix (1978) English, along with German, distant French Huguenot / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress, model, and designer.
Ayako Fujitani (1979) Mongolian, Russian Jewish, English, German, Dutch / Japanese - actress and writer.
Jenny Mollen (1979) Ashkenazi Jewish / Unknown - actress and writer.
Rakefet Abergel (1979) Moroccan Jewish - actress.
Ricki Noel Lander (1979) Ashkenazi Jewish, Dutch/Frisian / Unknown - actress, designer, entrepreneur, and model.
Mageina Tovah (1979) Norwegian, English, German, Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Tiffany Haddish (1979) Eritrean, Ethiopian Jewish / African-American - actress and comedian.
Larusso (1979) Moroccan Jewish / Tunisian Jewish - singer.
Amy Davidson (1979) Ashkenazi Jewish / Unknown - actress.
Natasha Lyonne (1979) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Rachel Lefevre (1979) Ashkenazi Jewish / French, Irish - actress.
Nafa Urbach (1980) Javanese / Dutch Jewish, German Jewish - singer, actress, model, and dancer.
Liane Balaban (1980) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Irish - actress.
Jill Latiano (1980) Italian, English / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress, model, dancer, and television personality.
Jazz Smollett (1980) African-American, Unspecified Native American, Louisiana Creole, Irish / Russian Jewish, Polish Jewish - actress.
D’Arcy Carden (1980) Turkish, Greek / German, Ashkenazi Jewish - actress and comedian.
Karen David (1980) Khasi, Chinese / Indian Jewish - actress and singer-songwriter.
Eva Green (1980) Swedish, French, Breton / Sephardi Jewish - actress.
Laura Prepon (1980) Ashkenazi Jewish / Irish, English, German - actress.
Lara Pulver (1980) Ashkenazi Jewish / English (mother, who converted to Judaism) - actress.
Rachel Bilson (1981) Ashkenazi Jewish / Italian - actress.
Rebecca Naomi Jones (1981) African-American / Jewish - actress.
Isidora Goreshter (1981) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Jessica Alba (1981) Mexican [Spanish, Mayan, Sephardi Jewish] / Danish, Welsh, German, English, Scottish, Irish, French - actress.
Shiri Maimon (1981) Tunisian Jewish, Syrian Jewish, Moroccan Jewish, Greek Jewish - singer, actress, and tv host.
Lesley-Ann Brandt (1981) Cape Coloured [Khoisan, Unspecified East Indian, Ashkenazi Jewish, Dutch, German, Spanish, English] - actress.
Stephanie Beatriz (1981) Colombian [German, ¼ Sephardi Jewish, Dutch, Spanish, Basque, possibly other] / Bolivian [Spanish, Unspecified Indigenous, Basque, possibly other] - actress.
Moran Atias (1981) Moroccan Jewish - actress and model.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler (1981) Romanian Jewish, Polish Jewish, Greek Jewish / Cuban (mother; who converted to Judaism) - actress and singer.
Melina Matsoukas (1981) Greek Jewish, Polish Jewish / Afro-Jamaican, Afro-Cuban - director.
Alisan Porter (1981) Jewish - actress.
Shiri Maimon (1981) Tunisian Jewish, Greek Jewish, Syrian Jewish - actress.
Meghan Ory (1982) Ashkenazi Jewish, possibly other - actress.
Aya Cash (1982) Ashkenazi Jewish / Italian, German, Irish - actress.
Zoe Lister-Jones (1982) English, possibly other (father, who converted to Judaism) / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress, playwright, singer, screenwriter, and film director.
Katie Lowes (1982) Irish / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress and director.
Jenny Slate (1982) 7/8 Ashkenazi Jewish, 1/8 Sephardi Jewish - actress, comedian, and author.
Jessi Cruickshank (1982) Scottish, English, German / Ashkenazi Jewish- television personality.
Beau Garrett (1982) Belgian Flemish, Ashkenazi Jewish, German, English, Irish - actress and model.
Cassidy Freeman (1982) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Irish, Scottish, German - actress and musician.
Cabra Casay (1982) Ethiopian Jewish - singer.
Alison Brie (1982) Scottish, Dutch, English, German, Norwegian / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Lily Rabe (1982) 75% mix of German, Irish, Scottish, English, distant Welsh, remote Dutch  / 25% mix of Ashkenazi Jewish and more distant Sephardi Jewish - actress.
Ania Bukstein (1982) Russian Jewish - actress.
Iliza Shlesinger (1983) Ashkenazi Jewish - comedian.
Shlomit Levi (1983) Yemeni Jewish - singer.
Domino Kirke (1983) Iraqi Mizrahi Jewish, Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Scottish - singer.
Daniela Ruah (1983) Sephardi Jewish / Ashkenazi Jewish, Spanish-Sephardi Jewish - actress.
Mariana Renata (1983) Javanese, Chinese, Italian / French Jewish - model and actress.
Jennifer Landon (1983) 1/4 Ashkenazi Jewish, 1/8 Italian, English, Irish, small amounts of German, Swiss-German, and Scottish - actress.
Lynsey Bartilson (1983) 50% Ashkenazi Jewish 25% Norwegian 12.5% Dutch 12.5% mix of English, Irish, and French - actress, singer, and dancer.
Esti Mamo (1983) Ethiopian Jewish - model and actress.
Stella Schnabel (1983) Ashkenazi Jewish / Belgian - actress.
Julie Berman (1983) English, Irish, Scottish, French-Canadian / likely at least part Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Mila Kunis (1983) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Mélanie Laurent (1983) Polish Jewish, Tunisian Jewish - actress.
Alona Tal (1983) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Marilou Berry (1983) Sephardi Jewish / Croatian, French - actress, film director, and screenwriter.
Rotem Sela (1983) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Lili Mirojnick (1984) 75% Ashkenazi Jewish 25% Italian - actress.
Emily Wickersham (1984) English, Swedish / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Amanda Setton (1985) Syrian Jewish, Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Joséphine Jobert (1985) Sephardi Jewish / Martiniquais, Spanish, possibly Chinese - actress and singer.
Ester Rada (1985) Ethiopian Jewish - singer and actress.
Jemima Kirke (1985) Iraqi Jewish, Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Scottish - actress.
Tessanne Chin (1985) Jewish, Afro Jamaican, likely other / Chinese, Cherokee - singer-songwriter.
Juliana Harkavy (1985) Russian Jewish, Hungarian Jewish / Dominican [African, Chinese] - actress.
Michelle Trachtenberg (1985) Russian Jewish, German Jewish - actress.
Molly Ephraim (1986) Ashkenazi Jewish, likely 1/4 French - actress.
Dianna Agron (1986) Ashkenazi Jewish / German, Irish, English - actress.
Meaghan Rath (1986) Ashkenazi Jewish / Goan Indian - actress.
Becca Tobin (1986) Ashkenazi Jewish / Irish, English, possibly other - actress and singer.
Michelle Chamuel (1986) Egyptian Jewish - singer-songwriter.
ZZ Ward (1986) English, possibly other, Hungarian, Ashkenazi Jewish - musician.
Kali Hawk (1986) African-American, German Jewish, Unspecified Native American - actress, comedian, and model.
Olivia Thirlby (1986) Ashkenazi Jewish / possibly English - actress.
Inbar Lavi (1986) Moroccan Jewish / Polish Jewish - actress.
Monica Raymund (1986) Dominican / Ashkenazi Jewish, English - actress.
Kat Dennings (1986) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Jurnee Smollett-Bell (1986) African-American, Unspecified Native American, Louisiana Creole, Irish / Russian Jewish, Polish Jewish - actress.
Amber Rose Revah (1986) Kenyan, Indian / Polish Jewish - actress.
Hannah Hart (1986) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, possibly other - YouTuber, comedian, author, and actress.
Emmy Rossum (1986) English, Dutch / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Alice Dellal (1987) Iraqi Mizrahi Jewish, Ashkenazi Jewish / Brazilian [Portuguese, Spanish, possibly other] - model.
Tori Praver (1987) Ashkenazi Jewish / Italian, Norwegian, German, Czech/Bohemian, some Dutch - model and fashion deisgner.
Gemma Arterton (1986) English, as well as 1/16th Jewish (matrilineal), and small amounts of German and Scottish - actress.
Jessica Rothe (1987) Ashkenazi Jewish / German, Scottish, English - actress.
Hannah Bronfman (1987) African-American / Russian Jewish, Ukrainian Jewish, German Jewish, English Jewish - DJ and model.
Snooki (1987) Chilean [Romani, Unspecified Middle Eastern, Unspecified South Asian, Unspecified East Asian, Jewish, Andalusian, Iberian, Croatian, Macedonian, Slovak, Russian] - reality tv personality.
Rosie Huntington-Whitely (1987) Ashkenazi Jewish, Shepardi Jewish / English - model.
Amelia Rose Blaire (1987) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Ilana Glazer (1987) Ashkenazi Jewish - comedian, writer, and actress
Milana Vayntrub (1987) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress, comedian, producer, writer.
Tahounia Rubel (1988) Ethiopian Jewish - model and tv personality.
Tania Raymonde (1988) Russian Jewish, Austrian Jewish / Corsican Italian - actress.
Kathleen Reiter (1988) Moroccan Jewish / Unspecified Other - singer.
Israela Avtau (1988) Ethiopian Jewish - model.
Rose Kennedy Schlossberg (1988) Ashkenazi Jewish / Irish, English, Scottish, French, German, Dutch - actress.
Zoë Kravitz (1988) African-American, Afro-Bahamian, Ashkenazi Jewish - actress, singer and model.
Nikki Reed (1988) Ashkenazi Jewish, German / English, Italian, Scottish, Irish, Swiss, Welsh, French - actress.
Margot Bingham (1988) Afro-Jamaican / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Natasha Slayton (1988) Ashkenazi Jewish / German, English - actress and singer.
Lalla Hirayama (1988) Japanese / South African, Jewish - TV Host, actress, dancer and model.
Danielle Haim (1989) Jewish - musician.
Tal Benyerzi (1989) Moroccan Jewish / Yemeni Jewish - singer and dancer.
Nora Arnezeder (1989) Austrian / Sephardi Jewish - actress and singer.
Lily Collins (1989) Ashkenazi Jewish, English, German. - actress, model, and writer.
Hagit Yaso (1989) Ethiopian Jewish - singer.
Ali Cobrin (1989) Ashkenazi Jewish, Italian/Sicilian, English, German - actress.
Elle King (1989) 1/4 Galician Jewish, 1/8 Filipino, unspecified amounts English, Scottish - singer-songwriter and actress.
Daisy Lowe (1989) 75% Jewish (Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish) 25% Scottish - model.
Kat Graham (1989) Americo-Liberian / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress, singer and dancer.
Marielle Jaffe (1989) Ashkenazi Jewish, German, English, French, Swiss-French - actress, singer and model.
Rebecca Scheja (1989) Ashkenazi Jewish, Swedish - actress and musician.
Bianca Bree (1990) Puerto Rican, Belgian [Flemish], 1/8 Jewish - actress.
Lola Kirke (1990) Iraqi Mizrahi Jewish, Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Scottish - actress and singer-songwriter.
Esti Ginzburg (1990) Ashkenazi Jewish - fashion model.
Hannah Jeter (1990) German, as well as Ashkenazi Jewish, Irish, English, and Scottish - model.
Carly Chaikin (1990) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Sarah Ramos (1991) Polish Jewish, Ukrainian Jewish / Filipino, Scottish, German, French, Irish, English - actress.
Dylan Penn (1991) Ashkenazi Jewish, Italian, Irish, English, smaller amounts of Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, French, and Irish - model and actress.
Rachel Keller (1991) Ashkenazi Jewish / German, Irish, English, Scottish, distant French - actress.
Yityish Titi Aynaw (1991) Ethiopian Jewish - model and Miss Israel 2013.
Sofia Black-D'Elia (1991) Ashkenazi Jewish / Italian - actress.
Alana Haim (1991) Jewish - musician.
Erin Sanders (1991) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Eden Sher (1991) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Demi Lovato (1992) Mexican [Spanish, Unspecified Indigenous, Portuguese, Sephardi Jewish] / English, Scottish, Irish - singer-songwriter and actress.
Nathalia Ramos (1992) Spanish / Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish - actress.
Molly Tarlov (1992) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Kim Edri (1992) Moroccan Jewish - beauty pageant titleholder.
Sky Ferreira (1992) Portuguese Brazilian / Ashkenazi Jewish, Cheyenne, Ojibwe, Chippewa Cree, Scottish, French, English, Irish - singer-songwriter, model, and actress.
Emily Warren (1992) Ashkenazi Jewish / Cornish, English, French, German, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, as well as remote Danish and Swedish - singer.
Shlomit Malka (1993) Moroccan Jewish / Ukranian Jewish - model.
Sierra-Skye Ashkewe (1993) Mohawk, Jewish / Ojibwe - actress.
Mia Goth (1993) English, possibly other / Ashkenazi Jewish, Brazilian - actress and model.
Shlomit Malka (1993) Moroccan Jewish / Ukrainian Jewish - model.
Hunter King (1993) Ashkenazi Jewish, possibly English - actress.
Nikki Yanofsky (1994) Ashkenazi Jewish - singer.
Frankie Cosmos (1994) German Jewish, Russian Jewish, Irish, Chinese, Filipino - singer-songwriter.
Zoey Deutch (1994) Ashkenazi Jewish / Irish, English, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Swiss-German, distant Dutch - actress.
Raquel Castro (1994) Puerto Rican / Ashkenazi Jewish, Italian - actress and singer-songwriter.
Ariane Rinehart (1994) German, Scottish, English, Irish, distant Dutch / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress and singer.
Zoey Deutch (1994) Ashkenazi Jewish / Irish, English, Scottish, German - actress.
Juliette Goglia (1995) Italian / English, 1/4 Ashkenazi Jewish, possibly other - actor.
Nibar Madar (1995) Jewish - model.
Hailee Steinfeld (1996) Romanian Jewish, Russian Jewish / Boholano Filipino, African-American, English, German, Scottish, Irish - actress and singer.
Madison Iseman (1997) English, Scottish, Irish, 1/8 Ashkenazi Jewish, distant French and Dutch - actor.
Odeya Rush (1997) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Sasha Meneghel (1998) Brazilian [1/2 Jewish, at least 1/16 Italian, Portuguese, likely Polish, possibly other] - model, actress, and professional volleyball player.
Ruby Jerins (1998) Latvian, Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Kayla Maisonet (1999) Puerto Rican / Russian Jewish - actress.
Joey King (1999) Ashkenazi Jewish, possibly English - actress.
Jazz Jennings (2000) Jewish - youtube/tv personality and spokesmodel. - Trans!
Blanche (2000) Belgian [Walloon] / Ashkenazi Jewish - singer.
Mackenzie Aladjem (2001) Uruguayan Jewish / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Kaia Gerber (2001) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Danish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Scottish, German, distant French, Irish, and Welsh - actress and model.
Malina Weissman (2003) Ashkenazi Jewish, possibly other - actress and model.
Serling Jerins (2004) Latvian, Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Jenny Marlowe (?) Algonquin, Mizrahi Jewish, French, Scottish, Cornish, Irish, Welsh, German, Ukrainian - actress.
Fanta Prada (?) Ethiopian Jewish - model.
Amy Correa (?) Guatemalan, Puerto Rican, Japanese, Jewish - actress, singer, and model.
Shani Mashsha (?) Ethiopian Jewish - model.
Michelle St. John (?) Wampanoag, Kalinago, Jewish - actress, singer, and filmmaker.
Malka Ingedashet (?) Ethiopian Jewish - singer.
Andrea Gabriel (?) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Esti Elias (?) Ethiopian Jewish - model.
Yosefa Dahari (?) Yemeni Jewish and Moroccan Jewish - singer.
Shelly Skandrani (?) Israeli / Turkish Jewish, Bulgarian Jewish - actress.
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Roger Corman (1926) Ashkenazi Jewish / German, possibly other - producer, screenwriter, director, entertainment businessperson, and actor.
Harry Belafonte (1927) Sephardi Jewish, Afro-Jamaican / Afro-Jamaican, Irish-Scottish - inger, songwriter, actor, and activist.
Silvio Santos (1930) Brazilian [Sephardi Jewish, Greek, Turkish] - tv host and entrepreneur.
Isaac Bardavid (1931) Brazilian [Turkish Jewish] - actor.
Henri Belolo (1936) Moroccan Jewish - music producer.
Joel Schumacher (1939) German, English, possibly other / Ashkenazi Jewish - director, screenwriter, and producer.
Neil Sedaka (1939) Sephardi Jewish, Ashkenazi Jewish - musician.
Dan Hedaya (1940) Syrian Jewish - actor.
James L. Brooks (1940) Ashkenazi Jewish - director, producer, and screenwriter.
Jorge Mautner (1941) Brazilian [Austrian Jewish / Yugoslav] - musician, actor, and filmmaker.
Peter Coyote (1941) Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish - actor, writer, director, and narrator.
Mike Medavoy (1941) Ashkenazi Jewish - producer and executive.
Robbie Robertson (1943) Mohawk / Ashkenazi Jewish - musician.
Isaac Bitton (1947) Moroccan Jewish - musician.
Peter Riegert (1947) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor, screenwriter, and film director.
Marc Singer (1948) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, some Scottish, distant German (mother, who likely converted to Judaism) - actor.
Christopher Guest (1948) English, Ashkenazi Jewish, more distant Scottish and Sephardi Jewish / Ashkenazi Jewish - actor, writer, director, comedian, composer, and musician.
Robert Lantos (1949) Ashkenazi Jewish - producer.
Victor Garber (1949) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor and singer.
Daniel Benzali (1950) Brazilian [Jewish, possibly other] - actor.
Allan Corduner (1950) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Bruce McGill (1950) Irish, English, distant French / Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Sylvain Sylvain (1951) Egyptian Jewish - rock guitarist.
Stephen Tobolowsky (1951) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor, author, and musician.
Steven Seagal (1952) Mongolian, Russian Jewish, English, Dutch, German - actor and filmmaker.
Dennis Boutsikaris (1952) Greek / Jewish - actor.
Ehud Banai (1953) Iranian Jewish - singer-songwriter.
Richard Anconina (1953) Moroccan Jewish - actor.
Tchéky Karyo (1953) Turkish Jewish / Greek - actor and musician.
Moshe Ivgy (1953) Moroccan Jewish - actor.
Robert Schenkkan (1953) Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish / English, Scottish - playwright, screenwriter, and actor.
Shimi Tavori (1953) Yemenite Jewish - singer.
David Permut (1954) Ashkenazi Jewish - producer.
Alan Poul (1954) Ashkenazi Jewish - producer and director.
Corbin Bernsen (1954) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Irish, Northern Irish/Scots-Irish, Scottish, distant Welsh - actor and director.
Raoul Trujillo (1955) Apache, Ute, Comanche, Pueblo, Tlaxcaltec, Andalusian Moor, Sephardi Jewish, French - actor.
Zion Golan (1955) Yemeni Jewish - singer.
Haim Moshe (1955) Yemeni Jewish - singer.
Sam Simon (1955) Ashkenazi Jewish - director, producer, and writer.
Haim Moshe (1955) Yemenite Jewish - singer.
Bruce Altman (1955) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Uri Gavriel (1955) Iraqi Jewish - actor.
Hart Bochner (1956) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor, film director, screenwriter, and producer.
Walter Salles (1956) Brazilian [Portuguese, Sephardi Jewish, possibly other] - filmmaker.
David Copperfield (1956) Yemenite Jewish / Ashkenazi Jewish - magician and actor.
Steven Bauer (1956) 23/32 Cuban [Spanish, possibly other], 1/4 German Jewish, 1/32 Italian - actor.
Max Wolf Valerio (1957) Kainai Blackfoot / Sephardi Jewish, Northern European - writer and actor. - Trans!
James McBride (1957) African-American / Ashkenazi Jewish - writer and musician.
Steve Lukather (1957) 37.5% Ashkenazi Jewish 12.5% Sephardi Jewish 18.75% Irish 12.5% Swedish 12.5% English 6.25% Scottish - musician.
Jon Gries (1957) Ashkenazi Jewish, some Sephardi Jewish / English, Irish - actor, writer, and director.
Michael Bowen (1957) Welsh / Ashkenazi Jewish, Danish, German, Swiss-German - actor.
Mark Lester (1958) English, Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Lenny Von Dohlen (1958) Ashkenazi Jewish, English, Irish, French - actor.
Michael Kors (1959) Swedish, Ukrainian, Ashkenazi Jewish - designer.
Patrick Bruel (1959) Algerian Jewish - singer and actor.
David Duchovny (1960) Ashkenazi Jewish / Scottish - actor, writer, producer, director, novelist, and singer-songwriter.
Jon Tenney (1961) Ashkenazi Jewish / English - actor.
Henry Rollins (1961) Ashkenazi Jewish / Unknown - musician, actor, writer, television and radio host, and comedian.
Jon Robin Baitz (1961) Ashkenazi Jewish - playwright, screenwriter, television producer, and actor.
Kevin Spirtas (1961) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Evan Handler (1961) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Dean Devlin (1962) Ashkenazi Jewish / Filipino, some Spanish - filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, television director, and actor.
Billy Wirth (1962) Ashkenazi Jewish / possibly Huron and other - actor.
Lee Arenberg (1962) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Yuval Banay (1962) Iranian Jewish - musician.
Carlos Alazraqui (1962) Argentinian [Spanish, Sephardi Jewish, possibly other] - actor.
Don Diamont (1962) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor and model.
Shaun Toub (1963) Persian Jewish - actor.
Yishai Levi (1963) Yemeni Jewish - singer.
Rob Schneider (1963) Ashkenazi Jewish / Filipino, English, Scottish - actor, comedian, screenwriter, director.
John Stamos (1963) Greek / Ashkenazi Jewish, German, English, Irish - actor and musician.
Brad Silberling (1963) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Irish, possibly other (mother, who converted to Judaism) - director.
Lenny Kravitz (1964) Afro-Bahamian, African-American / Ashkenazi Jewish - singer-songwriter and actor.
Hank Azaria (1964) Sephardi Jewish - actor, comedian, and producer.
Michael Cudlitz (1964) Ashkenazi Jewish / possibly Irish - actor.
Josh Pais (1964) Sephardi Jewish, Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Irish, German, Swiss-German (mother, who converted to Judaism) - actor.
Jake Weber (1964) Moroccan Sephardi Jewish, English / Danish, English - actor.
Jorge Drexler (1964) Uruguayan [German Jewish / French, Spanish, Portuguese] - musician and actor.
Adam Shankman (1964) Ashkenazi Jewish - director, producer, dancer, author, actor, and choreographer.
Willie Garson (1964) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Paul Weitz (1965) 75% Ashkenazi Jewish 12.5% Mexican 12.5% Irish - roducer, director, screenwriter, playwright, and actor.
Alessandro Gassmann (1965) German-Italian-Jewish / French - actor.
Emeric Imre (1965) Romani, Polish / Jewish, Hungarian - musician.
Dan Bucatinsky (1965) Argentinian [Polish Jewish / Russian Jewish] - actor.
Yvan Attal (1965) Algerian-French Jewish - actor and director.
Ian Gomez (1965) Puerto Rican / Russian Jewish - actor.
Ben Miller (1966) Ashkenazi Jewish, Welsh, likely English - comedian, actor, and director.
Sean Kanan (1966) Ashkenazi Jewish, German and Irish (maternal grandmother; who likely converted to Judaism) - actor.
Joshua Malina (1966) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Erann DD (1967) Yemeni-Jewish - singer.
David Guetta (1967) Moroccan Sephardi Jewish / Belgian - musician.
Max Casella (1967) Ashkenazi Jewish / Italian - actor.
Lee Unkrich (1967) English, German / Ashkenazi Jewish - director, film editor, and screenwriter.
Abatte Barihun (1967) Ethiopian Jewish - musician.
Ben Shenkman (1968) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Luciano Szafir (1968) Brazilian [Jewish, possibly other] - actor and model.
Danny Nucci (1968) Italian / Sephardi Jewish actor.
Chris Weitz (1969) 75% Ashkenazi Jewish 12.5% Mexican 12.5% Irish - producer, screenwriter, author, actor, and director.
Noah Baumbach (1969) Ashkenazi Jewish / Unspecified Other (likely English) - filmmaker.
Ben Mendelsohn (1969) 1/4 Ashkenazi Jewish, 1/8 Greek, 1/32 German, unspecified amounts of Scottish, English, Irish - actor.
Peter Salett (1969) Ashkenazi Jewish / Hungarian or Hungarian Ashkenazi Jewish - singer.
Loren Bouchard (1969) French-Canadian / Ashkenazi Jewish - voice actor, animator, composer, writer, producer, and television director.
Darren Aronofsky (1969) Ashkenazi Jewish - filmmaker.
Lior Ashkenazi (1969) Turkish Jewish (Sephardi Jewish) - actor.
Paul Adelstein (1969) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Callie Thorne (1969) Ashkenazi Jewish, Irish, English, Welsh, Assyrian, Armenian - actress.
Thomas Jane (1969) Irish, Scottish, possibly more distant German Jewish and Blackfoot - actor.
Richard Speight, Jr. (1970) nglish, German, 1/8 Ashkenazi Jewish - actor, screenwriter, director, and producer.
David Treuer (1970) Ojibwe / Austrian Jewish - writer.
Michael Benyaer (1970) Sephardi Jewish / Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Mosh Ben-Ari (1970) Yemeni Jewish and Iraqi Jewish - musician, lyricist and composer.
Chris Kattan (1970) Iraqi Jewish, Polish Jewish / Hungarian - actor and comedian.
Zack de la Rocha (1970) 3/4 Mexican [Unspecified African, Sephardi Jewish, Spanish], 1/4 mix of English, French, German, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Dutch, Swiss - musician.
Oded Fehr (1970) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Kevin Weisman (1970) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Andrew Kosove (1970) Ashkenazi Jewish, possibly other - producer.
Eyal Golan (1971) Moroccan Jewish, Yemenite Jewish - singer.
Sam Houser (1971) English, 1/4 Ashkenazi Jewish - video game producer and developer.
Eyal Golan (1971) Yemeni and Moroccan Jewish - singer.
Will Gluck (1971) Ashkenazi Jewish - producer, screenwriter, songwriter, and composer.
Vincent Elbaz (1971) Moroccan Jewish - actor.
Matt Iseman (1971) Ashkenazi Jewish, Irish, Danish, English, possibly othe, Czech/Bohemian  - comedian, actor, television host, and physician.
Pete Sampras (1971) 3/4 Greek, 1/4 Ashkenazi Jewish - professional tennis player.
Gad Elmaleh (1971) Moroccan Jewish, Sephardi Jewish - actor and comedian.
Brian Molko (1972) Sephardi Jewish-Italian / Scottish, Irish - musician.
David Charvet (1972) Tunisian Jewish / French or French Jewish - singer, actor, model, and television personality.
Wil Wheaton (1972) English, Irish, Welsh, German, French, 1/8th Sephardi Jewish - actor, writer, and blogger.
Chilly Gonzales (1972) Ashkenazi Jewish - singer and songwriter.
Assaf Cohen (1972) Yemenite, Russian Jewish, and Israeli Jewish - actor.
Sasha Roiz (1973) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Sean Paul (1973) Afro-Jamaican, Chinese, Sephardi Jewish, German, English - singer-songwriter.
Michael Weston (1973) Ashkenazi Jewish, Polish / English, possibly other - actor.
Ed Bassmaster (1973) Puerto Rican / Russian Jewish, Italian - actor and youtuber.
Boris Kodjoe (1973) Krobo Ghanaian / German Jewish - actor and model.
Dan Houser (1973) English, 1/4 Ashkenazi Jewish - video game producer and developer.
Eviatar Banai (1973) Iranian Jewish - musician.
David Blaine (1973) Puerto Rican, Italian / Austrian Jewish, Hungarian Jewish, Russian Jewish - magician.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar (1974) Indonesian, Dutch / Dutch Jewish, German - actor and model.
David Moscow (1974) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, French-Canadian, German, Scottish, distant Dutch and Swiss-German - actor, writer, director, producer, and activist.
Yehezkel Lazarov (1974) Uzbekistani Jewish, Bulgarian Jewish - actor and dancer.
Ruben Fleischer (1974) Ashkenazi Jewish / Welsh, Ukrainian or Rusyn (mother, who converted to Judaism) - director and producer.
Tomer Sisley (1947) Belarusian-Jewish, Lithuanian Jewish, Yemeni Jewish - descent humorist, actor, screenwriter, comedian and film director.
Taika Waititi (1975) Maori, as well as 1/16th French / Ashkenazi Jewish - film director, screenwriter, actor, and comedian.
Shmuel Beru (1975) Ethiopian Jewish - actor, comedian, and director.
Scott Weinger (1975) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor, writer and producer.
Raphaël Haroche (1975) Moroccan Jewish, Russian / Argentinian - actor and singer-songwriter.
Shai Fredo (1975) Ethiopian Jewish - actor.
Trevor Engelson (1976) Ashkenazi Jewish - producer.
Jamie Elman (1976) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Jordan Belfi (1976) Italian / Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Josh Meyers (1976) 31.25% Swedish 25% Ashkenazi Jewish 12.5% Bohemian/Czech 12.5% Croatian 12.5% English 6.25% German - actor and comedian.
Nicholas Stoller (1976) Ashkenazi Jewish - director, film producer, and screenwriter.
Colin Trevorrow (1976) English, possibly other / Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish - director and screenwriter.
Oliver Hudson (1976) Italian/Sicilian Ashkenazi Jewish (maternal grandmother), English, 1/16th German, remote French - actor.
Jojo Smollett (1977) African-American, Unspecified Native American, Louisiana Creole, Irish / Russian Jewish, Polish Jewish - actor.
Big Jay Oakerson (1977) Ashkenazi Jewish, possibly other - comedian, radio show host, podcaster, and actor.
Jason Reitman (1977) Ashkenazi Jewish / French (mother, who converted to Judaism) - film director, screenwriter, and producer.
Jonathan Togo (1977) Ashkenazi Jewish / Italian, Irish, possibly English - actor.
Shane West (1978) Jamaican [English, Sephardi Jewish, distant Scottish] / Cajun [French], distant Spanish - actor and musician.
Jérémie Elkaïm (1978) Moroccan Jewish - actor and filmmaker.
DJ Drama (1978) African-American / Ashkenazi Jewish - musician.
Nick Kroll (1978) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor, comedian, writer, and producer.
Shane West (1978) Jamaican [English, Spanish Jewish, Portuguese Jewish, distant Scottish] / Cajun [French], distant Spanish - actor and musician.
Elliott Yamin (1978) Iraqi Jewish / Ashkenazi Jewish - singer-songwriter.
E. Kidd Bogart (1978) Ashkenazi Jewish - executive, television producer, music publisher, and songwriter.
Eric Ladin (1978) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
David Caspe (1978) Ashkenazi Jewish - writer.
Ben McKenzie (1978) 25% Dutch Jewish (Ashkenazi Jewish and Sephardi Jewish) 75% mix of English and some Scottish - actor and producer.
Yehuda Levi (1979) Polish-Jewish, Bulgarian-Jewish - actor and model.
Oscar Isaac (1979) Cuban [Jewish, possibly other] / Guatemalan, French - actor and musician.
Jamie Cullum (1979) Indian, Burmese, possibly some Spanish / English, Ashkenazi Jewish - singer-songwriter.
Gabe Saporta (1979) Uruguayan [Turkish Jewish, Polish Jewish, Austrian Jewish] - musician.
Josh Keaton (1979) Ashkenazi Jewish / Peruvian [Quechua, possibly other] - actor.
Nicholas Jarecki (1979) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Scottish, possibly other - film director, producer, and writer.
Brandon Barash (1979) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Subliminal (1979) Persian Jewish / Tunisian Jewish - rapper.
Jonathan Kite (1979) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor, comedian, and impressionist.
Mike Zegen (1979) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
William Levy (1980) 3/4 Spanish Cuban, 1/4 Jewish Cuban - actor and model.
Todd Strauss-Schulson (1980) Ashkenazi Jewish - director, screenwriter, producer, editor, and cinematographer.
Morgan Spector (1980) Ashkenazi Jewish / Irish, possibly other - actor.
Ben Savage (1980) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Sirak M. Sabahat (1981) Ethiopian Jewish - actor.
Nick Valensi (1981) Sephardi Jewish / French - musician.
Harel Moyal (1981) Moroccan Jewish - actor and singer-songwriter.
Mateus Solano (1981) Brazilian [Italian Jewish, possibly other] - actor.
Ben Schwartz (1981) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor, comedian, and writer.
Harel Skaat (1981) Yemenite Jewish / Iraqi Jewish - singer-songwriter.
Griff Furst (1981) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Irish, Northern Irish - actor and director.
Zach McGowan (1981) Ashkenazi Jewish / Irish - actor.
Eban Hyams (1981) Indian-Jewish  - professional basketball player, a writer, producer, actor, model and musician.
Matt Cohen (1982) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Daveed Diggs (1982) African-American / Ashkenazi Jewish - actor and rapper.
DJ A-Trak (1982) Russian Jewish, Moroccan Jewish - DJ.
Jack Huston (1982) Iraqi Jewish, Indian Jewish, German Jewish, French Jewish, English, Italian, Scottish, Irish, German, Portuguese - actor.
A-Trak (1982) Moroccan Jewish / Russian Jewish - musician.
Jay Baruchel (1982) Sephardi Jewish, Irish, French, German - actor, comedian, screenwriter, director, and producer.
Alexander DiPersia (1982) Ashkenazi Jewish / Italian - actor.
Adam Pally (1982) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor and comedian.
Ari Millen (1982) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Martin Wallström (1983) Swedish, Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Jussie Smollett (1983) African-American, Unspecified Native American, Louisiana Creole, Irish / Russian Jewish, Polish Jewish - actor and singer.
Daryl Wein (1983) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, possibly other - actor and filmmaker.
Antonio Campos (1983) Brazilian [Portuguese, Sephardi Jewish, possibly other] / Italian, Sicilian - filmmaker.
Ashley Zukerman (1983) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Matt Lanter (1983) Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish, Polish, English, Austrian, Scottish, German, Irish - actor and model.
Satya Bhabha (1983) Parsi Indian / German Jewish - actor.
Eric Andre (1983) Afro-Haitian / Ashkenazi Jewish - actor, comedian, and television host.
Ryan Eggold (1984) German, with a small amount of Austrian, Croatian, Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Scott Clifton (1984) Ashkenazi Jewish / Scottish - actor, singer, songwriter, musician, and video blogger.
Jack Antonoff (1984) Ashkenazi Jewish - musician.
Josh Brener (1984) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Dudu Aharon (1984) Yemenite Jewish - musician.
Anna Nalick (1984) Ashkenazi Jewish, English, Scottish, possibly other - singer.
Jon Lee Brody (1984) Korean / Jewish, German - actor.
Jason Davis (1984) Ashkenazi Jewish / Turkish - actor.
Justin Baldoni (1984) Ashkenazi Jewish / Italian - actor and filmmaker.
Wilson Bethel (1984) 1/4 Ashkenazi Jewish, 3/4 English, possibly Welsh - actor.
Amir Haddad (1984) Moroccan Jewish, Tunisian Jewish, Sephardi Jewish - singer-songwriter.
Kyle Newacheck (1984) 1/4 Ashkenazi Jewish, 3/4 mix of Welsh, English, Irish, Scottish, German, Swiss-German, Czech/Bohemian - writer, director, producer, and actor.
Pe’er Tasi (1984) Yemenite Jewish - singer-songwriter.
Jordan Vogt-Roberts (1984) Ashkenazi Jewish, possibly other - director and screenwriter.
Bruno Mars (1985) Filipino [Cebuano, Tagalog, Spanish] / Puerto Rican, Ashkenazi Jewish - musician.
Tiago Splitter (1985) Brazilian [Ashkenazi Jewish, German, possibly other] - professional basketball player.
Aditya Roy Kapur (1985) Indian / Indian Jewish - actor.
Justin Hurwitz (1985) Ashkenazi Jewish/ Sephardi Jewish - composer and writer.
Max Minghella (1985) Italian / Chinese [Han, possibly other], Parsi Indian, Sephardi Jewish, English, Irish, Swedish - actor.
Alex Pall (1985) Ashkenazi Jewish, English, Serbian or Croatian and/or German - music producer.
Marc Bendavid (1986) Moroccan Jewish / Belgian - actor.
Will Peltz (1986) Ashkenazi Jewish / German, Welsh, English - actor and model.
Idan Yaniv (1986) Bukharan Jewish - singer.
Shia LaBeouf (1986) Ashkenazi Jewish / Cajun-French - actor, performance artist, and filmmaker.
Karim Kassem (1986) Egyptian / Egyptian Jewish - actor.
Julian Edelman (1986) German, 1/8 Ashkenazi Jewish, 1/8 Greek, unspecified amounts Irish, English, Scottish, Polish, Belgian - NFL player.
Drake (1986) African-American / Latvian Jewish, Russian Jewish - rapper, singer-songwriter, and actor.
George Watsky (1986) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, distant Irish - musician.
Matthew Koma (1987) Ashkenazi Jewish, possibly other - musician.
Miles Teller (1987) Ashkenazi Jewish, Irish, Polish, English, possibly distant French - actor and musician.
Tiago Abravanel (1987) Brazilian [Sephardi Jewish, Greek, Turkish] - actor and singer.
Ryan Follese (1987) Jewish, Norwegian, English, Danish, Irish, Scottish, German, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, remote Dutch - musician.
Boaz Ma’uda (1987) Yemenite Jewish - singer-songwriter.
Oliver Cooper (1988) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor and comedian.
Karl Glusman (1988) Ashkenazi Jewish, Irish, Swedish, German - actor.
Jonas Blue (1989) Ashkenazi Jewish - musician.
Jake Smollett (1989) African-American, Unspecified Native American, Louisiana Creole, Irish / Russian Jewish, Polish Jewish - actor.
Jesse Rath (1989) Goan Indian / Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Melissa Bolona (1989) Ashkenazi Jewish, Croatian, Czech / Peruvian [Spanish, possibly German and Cuban] - actress and model.
Khleo Thomas (1989) Moroccan Jewish / African-American - actor, rapper, and singer.
Shane Haboucha (1990) Iraqi Jewish, Syrian Jewish / Polish Jewish - actor.
Tyler Young (1990) Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish / Unknown - actor.
Alok (1991) Brazilian [Israeli, Ukrainian Jewish, Latvian Jewish, possibly other] - DJ and record producer.
Chen Aharoni (1990) Yemeni Jewish - singer and presenter.
Carter Jenkins (1991) Russian Jewish, Belarusian Jewish, Polish Jewish / Irish, English, Scottish, at least 1/8 Cherokee (mother, who converted to Judaism) - actor.
Owen Kline (1991) German Jewish, Russian Jewish, Irish, Chinese, Filipino - actor.
Jamie Follese (1991) Jewish, Norwegian, English, Danish, Irish, Scottish, German, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, remote Dutch - musician.
Imri Ziv (1991) Ashkenazi Jewish - singer and actor.
Logan Lerman (1992) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Ari Stidham (1992) Sephardi Jewish / Ashkenazi Jewish - actor and musician.
Enrique Gil (1992) Filipino [Cebuano, Hiligaynon], Ashkenazi Jewish, Spanish - actor and dancer.
Max Schneider (1992) Ashkenazi Jewish / German, English - actor, singer-songwriter, dancer, and model.
Omer Adam (1993) Mountain Jewish / Sephardi Jewish - singer.
Ronen Rubinstein (1993) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Ben Platt (1993) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor and singer.
Lauv AKA Ari Leff (1994) Ashkenazi Jewish / Latvian - musician.
Noah Galvin (1994) Ashkenazi Jewish / Irish, Italian - actor.
Ryan Potter (1995) Japanese / Swedish, English, German, Ashkenazi Jewish - actor and martial artist.
Logan Paul (1995) English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, German, at least 1/16th Ashkenazi Jewish - viner, youtuber, and actor.
Derrick Monasterio (1995) Italian, Jamaican [East Indian, Lebanese, Sephardi Jewish, Scottish] / Filipino [Tagalog, Waray], Spanish [Castilian, Valencian], English - actor, dancer, and singer.
Callan McAuliffe (1995) Irish, Sephardi Jewish, English, and Northern Irish - actor.
Josh Ho-Sang (1996) Chilean [Ashkenazi Jewish, Spanish, possibly other] / Afro-Jamaican, Chinese - professional hockey player.
Charlie Rowe (1996) English, Scottish, 1/8 Ashkenazi Jewish, 1/8 Greek, 1/16 French, some Manx - actor.
Blake Michael (1996) Ashkenazi Jewish, Hispanic - actor, singer, musician, and model.
Jonah Bobo (1997) Syrian Jewish - actor and comedian.
Bobby Coleman (1997) English, 1/8th Ashkenazi Jewish, 1/8th Irish, 1/16th German, small amounts of Scottish and Scots-Irish/Northern Irish - actor.
Leo Howard (1997) Russian Jewish, Austrian Jewish / English, Scottish, Irish - actor.
Cameron Boyce (1999) Afro-Caribbean, African-American / Hungarian Jewish, Russian Jewish, Lithuanian Jewish, German Jewish - actor.
Teo Halm (1999) Moroccan Sephardi Jewish, French Sephardi Jewish / Czechoslovakian Ashkenazi Jewish, Ukrainian Ashkenazi Jewish, Russian Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Presley Gerber (1999) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Danish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Scottish, German, distant French, Irish, and Welsh - model.
Griffin Gluck (2000) Japanese, Ashkenazi Jewish / German, English, Scottish, Irish, Polish - actor.
Joshua Rush (2001) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Lucas Jade Zumann (2001) Ashkenazi Jewish / possibly German - actor.
David Mazouz (2001) Sephardi Jewish - actor.
Finn Wolfhard (2002) Jewish, German, French, Irish, Scottish, English, Welsh - actor.
Asher Angel (2002) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Jack Dylan Grazer (2003) 1/4 Ashkenazi Jewish, 3/4 mix of German, Irish, English, likely French - actor.
Noah Schnapp (2004) Ashkenazi Jewish / Moroccan Sephardi Jewish - actor.
dBlackLion / Imanuel Yerday (?) Ethiopian Jewish - singer-songwriter.
Ohad Benchetrit (?) Moroccan Jewish - musician.
Jocqui Smollett (?) African-American, Unspecified Native American, Louisiana Creole, Irish / Russian Jewish, Polish Jewish - actor.
Uri Elman (?) Ethiopian Jewish - rapper (Strong Black Coffee).
Ilek Sahalu (?) Ethiopian Jewish - rapper (Strong Black Coffee).
Jake Weber (?) Danish, English / Moroccan Jewish, English - actor.
Jeremy Cool Habash (?) Ethiopian Jewish - rapper.
Erez Safar (?) American Jewish / Yemenite Jewish - DJ.
Kosha Dillz (?) Sephardi Jewsish - rapper.
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Deborah A. Miranda (1961) Esselen, Chumash / Jewish, French - writer - two-spirit.
JD Samson (1978) Jewish - musician - genderqueer.
B Scott (1981) Meherrin, African-American, Jewish, Irish - tv/internet/radio personality - gender non-conforming.
Mykki Blanco (1986) African-American Jewish / Unspecified - rapper and poet - multi-gender.
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Jerry Seinfeld (1954) Syrian Jewish / Hungarian Jewish - comedian, actor, writer, producer, director - has said “who cares” about racial diversity in Hollywood, that “political correctness is ruining comedy”, dated a 17 year old when he was 39, made rape jokes, called Bill Cosby (recently, so allegations are known) “the best comedian of all time”, and many racist and sexist jokes.
Marc Jacobs (1963) Ashkenazi Jewish - fashion designer - appropriation.
Cassandra Clare (1972) Ashkenazi Jewish - writer - plagiarize.
Neve Campbell (1973) Scottish / Dutch, Sephardi Jewish - actress - supported Roman Polanski.
Alyson Hannigan (1974) Polish Jewish, Russian Jewish / Irish - actress - yellowface.
Ginnifer Goodwin (1978) English / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress - homophobic comments.
Adam Levine (1979) Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish, German, Scottish - singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and actor - trivializes stalking and domestic abuse.
Eva Green (1980) Swedish, French, Breton, Sephardi Jewish - actress and model - supported Roman Polanski.
Natalie Portman (1981) Polish Jewish, Romanian Jewish / Austrian Jewish, Lithuanian Jewish, Russian Jewish, Ukrainian Jewish - actress - zionism.
Gal Gadot (1985) Belarusian Jewish, Lithuanian Jewish, Russian Jewish, Polish Jewish, Austrian Jewish, Czechoslovakian Jewish, German Jewish - actress and model - zionism.
Lea Michele (1986) Italian / Greek Jewish, Turkish Jewish - actress, singer, and author - after trying out for a Puerto Rican role in West Side Story, said she was gutted and cried about how she even learned Spanish for the role, despite her not being Latina she thought she deserved the role due to that.
Charlie Puth (1991) Ashkenazi Jewish / German, Hungarian, possibly other - singer-songwriter and producer - some shitty comments when asked about the Ke/sha and D/r Lu/ke situation where he said about how it was sad on both ends because it was meaning he wasn’t getting any new music from either.
Ezra Miller (1992) Ashkenazi Jewish / German, Dutch - actor and singer - some shitty comments about seeing the Mi/ke Bro/wn and Dar/ren Wil/son thing from both sides.
Gregg Sulkin (1992) English Ashkenazi Jewish/Sephardi Jewish - dated a minor.
Bex Taylor-Klaus (1994) Ukrainian Jewish, German Jewish, Romanian Jewish, Latvian Jewish, Russian Jewish, Polish Jewish, Lithuanian Jewish - actress - http://binxrps.tumblr.com/post/164119141821/sooooo-apparently-bex-tylor-klus-is-canceled-bc.
Nat Wolff (1994) Russian Jewish, Polish Jewish, German Jewish / English, German, Scottish, 1/256 Portuguese Azorean, distant Welsh, Jersey/Channel Islander, French - actor and musician - took a Japanese role in Death Note when he is not Japanese.
Nicola Peltz (1995) Ashkenazi Jewish / German, Welsh, English - abuse claims and taking a native/Inuit role in Avatar when she is non native.
Jake Paul (1997) English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, German, at least 1/16th Ashkenazi Jewish - viner, youtuber, and actor - racist comments, abuse allegations, and rape jokes.
Bhad Bhabie/Danielle Bregoli (2003) Ashkenazi Jewish / Italian - rapper and social media personality - appropriation.
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The Waxwork Corpse by Simon Michael
Charles Holborne Legal Thriller #5
1940 – war – a bit about Charlie’s life during the air raids that will come back to haunt him in the books  is then followed by…
1965 – a body found in deep water – leads to a very intriguing case that will bring Charlie on as Queen’s Counsel.
Thrown into the mix – Charlie’s family and issues related to his relationship with his parents and the religion he was born into but has pretty much left behind.
So...with threads aplenty and a case to prepare for this story was a humdinger. I wasn’t sure at first where it was going with the time jump, body, and all the rest but the race to the end, the twists and turns, the feeling I had at the end...well...this was such a good book that I immediately sent an email to my siblings telling them to look for this book and this series and also had to tweet about it, too.
What I liked:
* That the story is related to a real case from the past
* Charles: smart, human, a person I want to know better – a good lawyer but one who can see how the game is played
* That I did not like the murder victim and might have wanted to murder her myself
* The way the story picked up speed along the way
* The side story dealing with his family
* That it made me think about the religion I grew up with and left behind (not the one in the book – another one)
* The era and setting of the book
* The twists I was not able to anticipate
* Everything
Some of the thoughts I wrote down as I read:
* Oh my! Gobsmacked and then – Oh my! Again
* Gamesmanship
* Masterful
* English law cagier?
* Puzzling – a puzzle
* Smart – like it – caught my total interest – especially at page 210
* The Law – all just a dramatic exercise
* Tantalizing
* Cunning
* Really good
* Need to find the first four books to learn more about Charles
* Have to look up rams’ horn and listen to what it sounds like (and it reminded me of the sound my brother used to toot out of a long cow’s horn scaring neighbors as they passed by).
Did I like this book? Oh my...YES
Would I read more by this author/in this series? Without a doubt
Thank you to Sapere Books for the ARC – This is my honest review.
5 Stars
BLURB
Charles Holborne is back – with his strangest case to date! Perfect for fans of John Grisham, Robert Bailey, Michael Connelly and Robert Dugoni. A deadly crime has been dragged to the surface… London, 1965 Charles Holborne, maverick barrister, will never fit in at the Bar; he is too working-class, too Jewish and too dangerous. But that makes him the perfect outsider to prosecute a shocking murder case which has already made its way to the press. By chance, a body was found, dumped in a lake. It had clearly been there for some time, but the conditions in the water have meant that it was nearly perfectly preserved. The police have managed to match this ‘waxwork corpse’ to a missing woman and if her husband — a senior judge — was the one who killed her, the scandal threatens to rock the British justice to its foundations. The waxwork corpse is not the only thing to be raised from the past. The investigation also dredges up a violent mistake made by Charles in his youth which, if revealed, could put his own life at stake… THE WAXWORK CORPSE , based on a real Old Bailey case, is the fifth crime novel in an exciting historical series, the Charles Holborne Legal Thrillers — gritty, hard-boiled mysteries set in 1960s London. THE CHARLES HOLBORNE LEGAL THRILLERS SERIES BOOK ONE: The Brief BOOK TWO: An Honest Man BOOK THREE: The Lighterman BOOK FOUR: Corrupted BOOK FIVE: The Waxwork Corpse
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JANUARY 13, 2019 BY KERRY CONNELLY
The first time I ever heard Leonard Cohen’s Halleluja was at a funeral. It has forever ruined me for the song — I have no idea who the woman was who sang it that sad day, but she should be the only person who ever sings it again, ever*.
The funeral was for my former boss, Ron. Like the woman who sang for his funeral, Ron ruined me for all bosses since. Ron was one of a kind. Tall, with a salt and pepper ponytail (when I first met him) and a trademark handlebar mustache, he could sell anything to anyone. Ron was generous to a fault, and this did not make him perfect. He was as imperfect as a man could ever be. But he was kind, and loving, and caring; he was hysterically funny and creative, and passionate about life, and the world simply does not vibrate as highly as it did when he was here on earth. Without him here, it is as if there is a vacuum where once there was vibrant color; as if a little bit of love and joy and laughter has left the room. The pride that emanated from Ron when he spoke of his three sons was palpable; the protectiveness he displayed when he thought I was in danger was fatherly; the generosity he displayed in his holiday gifts, the gifts when my daughter was born, the shared meals and experiences — I am a changed person for knowing Ron.
And at his funeral, he continued the offerings. I heard this stranger, this woman sing Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, and I broke a little.
In the time since Ron died (God — how is it so many years ago already? How is it fair that he is gone?) Christians — those of my own ilk — have reworked the perfect lyrics of Cohen’s poetry to make them more….I dunno, holy or some shit like that.
But I don’t think there’s anything holier than a broken king singing hallelujah.
Now — don’t get me wrong. I’m not about to excuse King David and his rape of Bathsheba. I’m all about calling that shit out, and I’ll smash the patriarchy to bits if someone would just hand me a hammer. Patriarchy and power structures and the truth of sexual politics are important and not to be ignored or patronized.
But that’s not what Cohen’s song is about.
Cohen’s song is about love — the imperfect kind that we humans are capable of. It’s the kind of love that fights dirty; it’s about the smell of sex, and the scent of love, and way we can be consumed with the things that bind us and break us, the things that eat us for dinner. Cohen’s song is about the love distorted by dysfunctional parents; it’s about the way we break into a million pieces from the fear of being left; it’s about deep anxiety; it’s about doubt and pain and defensiveness. It’s about pushing the people who love us well away. It’s about cold back alleys and heartbreak hotels. It’s about brokenness, where the beauty lives, scarred arms and hangovers, DUI’s and black sheep of families.
After all, it’s the broken places God goes to find us…because God loves us that much.
Listen, I’m all about the baby Jesus. I mean, I’m a sold out Jesus freak. But I’m not a Jesus Freak in spite of my own brokenness. I’m a Jesus Freak because my brokenness doesn’t scare Jesus away. Jesus doesn’t need a sanitized version of his own story to come searching for me. Jesus is the kind of guy — the kind of blood and guts God — who walks the back alleys of my humanity to find me. And when he does, he opens his arms wide so I can fall into his beautiful embrace and know that I am home, imperfect love and all.
Ron was Jewish. One of my favorite memories of him was when a co-worker had a death in the family, and I went to sit shiva for the very first time. Knowing my interest in the scriptures and traditions even then, Ron encouraged me into the circle of prayer, welcomed me with that big smile, that generous hug, that huge aura of love that emanated from him. Ron was a walking Halleluja  — his every fault (and there were many) a praise song to life. I was uncertain about drawing closer, because the prayers were unfamiliar, and I am always so concerned with doing no harm, and not offending. I was certain my gentile presence would somehow make a scene in this sacred space. But what I will never forget is Ron, and his imperfect arms opened wide, into the circle, welcoming.
The Cohen song is old, and so is the story of its re-worked lyrics. From the perspective of the dead art of blogging, writing this piece isn’t my best move, promotionally speaking. But Ron’s presence feels near to me today, and the song popped into my head, and I remembered the way we Christians love to fix every broken thing as if it was our mandate in life.
But oh — and I am letting out a gush of air here, I am breathing out the name of God with a whoosh, the way YHWH is supposed to be uttered: the intake of air on the YH, the rush of air out on the WH — GOD is a God of brokenness, like Jesus on the cross. God is a God of beauty with pain, of imperfect love, of blood and guts, of anxiety and back alley fear. God is a god who has no use for perfectionism, no need to be sanitized. God doesn’t even need to be told the Jesus story back to Godself. God’s good that way.
What God wants is our imperfection. Our honest, blood-curdling wails of pain; our inside monsters, scratching to get out. God wants our broken love, our hot messes, our insufficiency. God wants it all, and God needs no antiseptic hand soap before the hug.
So I’m totally cool with Cohen’s original lyrics about a visceral love, a broken kind of love played out by dysfunctional people who maybe don’t even know how to exist, much less love. We have plenty of songs about babies in mangers, about God on a cross. I’m really more in tune with the songs about the broken people lifting up a hallelujah, anyway.
That, after all, is where truth is. Where love is.
Where God goes.
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*Except maybe K.D. Lang, who can sing me to sleep any damn time she ever wants to. 
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BAUHAUS SPIRIT: 100 YEARS OF BAUHAUS
Directed by Niels Bolbrinker and Thomas Tielsch
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of Walter Gropius' Bauhaus with this lively and wide-ranging exploration of the movement uniting modern design, art, architecture and performing arts with communal social living to form an academic discipline and utopian way of life. Combining free imagination and play with strict structure, Bauhaus' members included Anni Albers, Marcel Breuer, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Oskar Schlemmer and more. The most comprehensive film on its subject to date, Bauhaus Spirit explores this influential 20th-century movement's history, legacy, and continued relevance in an age where function and environmental sustainability have taken on new urgency.
DVD (English, German, With English Subtitles, Color) / 2018 / 90 minutes
CONFLUENCE INSTITUTE, THE: RETHINKING ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION (ODILE DECQ)
Odile Decq first came to prominence in 1990 with the completion of Banque Populaire de L'Ouest in Rennes, designed with her late husband and partner Benoit Cornette. In recent years, she has completed the extension to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome (2010), The Phantom Restaurant at the Opera Garnier in Paris (2011), FRAC Bretagne Contemporary Art Museum in Rennes (2012), the renovation of Antti Lovag's bubble house Maison Bernard in France (2016) and Le Cargo office space for tech start-ups in Paris (2016). In 2016, she was awarded the Jane Drew prize for women in architecture.
In this talk, Decq describes setting up her own school of architecture in 2012, the Confluence Institute, housed in a converted railway building in Lyon. With its emphasis on making, the school offers a radical alternative to conventional architectural education.
CD-ROM / 2017 / 17 minutes
CONCRETE LOVE
Director: Maurizius Staerkle Drux
Gottfried Bohm is widely regarded as Germany's preeminent architect. The son of a master builder of churches, he's also the patriarch of a modern architecture dynasty to which his three sons Stephan, Peter and Paul belong. But with the death of Gottfried's wife Elisabeth, also an architect and a key source of inspiration for all the Bohm builders, the family loses its emotional lodestone.
Concrete Love paints an intimate portrait of the complexity and inseparability of life, love and art.
DVD (German with English subtitles) / 2015 / 88 minutes
GRAY MATTERS
Director: Marco Orsini
The documentary Gray Matters explores the long, fascinating life of architect and designer Eileen Gray, whose uncompromising vision defined and defied the practice of modernism in decoration, design and architecture.
Making a reputation with her lacquer work in the beginning of the 20th century, Gray became a critically acclaimed and sought-after decorator and designer before reinventing herself as an architect. Her first and most famous building, a modernist villa on the French Riviera called E-1027, was for many years mistakenly credited to her mentor, Le Corbusier. For the most part, her pioneering work was done quietly, privately and to her own specifications. But she lived long enough (98 years old) to be rediscovered and acclaimed. Today, with her work commanding extraordinary prices and attention, her legacy, like its creator, remains elusive, contested, and compelling.
DVD / 2014 / 76 minutes
STRANGE AND FAMILIAR: ARCHITECTURE ON FOGO ISLAND
Director: Marcia Connelly & Katherine Knight
In a rapidly urbanized world, what does the future hold for traditional rural societies? As Fogo Island, a small community off the coast of Newfoundland, struggles to sustain its unique way of life in the face of a collapse of its cod fishing industry, architect Todd Saunders and social entrepreneur Zita Cobb's vision for positive change results in the envisioning, designing and building of strikingly original architecture that will become a catalyst for social change.
Experience this staggeringly beautiful place and how the community and local workers, together with Saunders and Cobb, come together and play a role in this creative process during a time of optimism and uncertain hope. Change is coming to Fogo Island.
DVD / 2014 / 54 minutes
COMMUNICATION VESSELS: AN ARCHITECTURAL PARACOSM (NEIL SPILLER)
Professor Neil Spiller is dean of the school of architecture at Greenwich University. Before moving to Greenwich in September 2010, he was vice-dean at the Bartlett school of architecture, where he founded AVATAR, the Advanced Virtual and Technological Architecture Research Group.
In this talk, Spiller describes his 14-year long Communicating Vessels project - an architectural paracosm set on an island in Kent. His designs for the island - which include a walled garden in memory of the American theorist Lebbeus Woods - draw on the work of the Surrealists, science fiction and technological advances such as nanotechnology and augmented reality.
CD-ROM / 2013 / 34 minutes
SAGRADA: THE MYSTERY OF CREATION
Director: Stefan Haupt
One of the most iconic structures ever built, Barcelona's La Sagrada Familia is a unique and fascinating architectural project conceived by Antoni Gaudi in the late 19th century. More than 125 years after construction began, the basilica still remains unfinished. Sagrada: The Mystery of Creation celebrates Gaudi's vision and the continuing work of architects as they strive to complete the colossal project while delving into the process of artistic creation in a historical context.
La Sagrada Familia was commissioned by the Order of St Joseph in 1882. After conflicts arose between the Order and the original architect, 31 year old Antoni Gaudi was hired to complete the design. A devout Catholic and architectural prodigy, Gaudi envisioned a place of worship that combined elements of classic French Gothic style and the curvilinear, organic aspects of the budding Art Nouveau school.
Despite decades of delays, thousands of artisans, laborers, and designers have contributed to the ambitious and glorious landmark. Inspired by Gaudi's vision, the film explores our fundamentally human search for the meaning of existence, and the quest for creative expression.
In the midst of the hustle and bustle of the Catalonian metropolis, the documentary investigates the structural developments of the Sagrada Familia while allowing the audience time to observe, perceive, and reflect upon the historical, artistic and personal significance of the basilica.
DVD (Catalan, Spanish, French, and German with English Subtitles) / 2013 / 90 minutes
SUKKAH CITY
Director: Jason Hutt
When best-selling author Joshua Foer (Moonwalking with Einstein) began to build his first sukkah, a small hut that Jews build and dwell in every fall for the holiday of Sukkot, he wanted to move beyond the generic plywood boxes and canvas tents that have become the unimaginative status quo. He discovered that while the bible outlines the basic parameters for what a sukkah should look like and how it should function, it leaves plenty of room for variation and interpretation. Foers thought, 'what if contemporary architects and designers were challenged to design and construct twelve radical sukkahs? What would they come up with?' And so was born the design competition and exhibition known as "Sukkah City."
Sukkah City chronicles the architecture competition created by bestselling author Joshua Foer and Roger Bennett (Reboot co-founder) that explored the creative potential of the ancient Jewish sukkah and created a temporary exhibition of 12 newly designed sukkahs in the heart of New York City. The film goes behind the scenes of the jury day, the construction, and the exhibition to provide an entertaining and inspiring portrait of the project's visionary architects, planners and structures and celebrates an exciting, singular moment in the American Jewish experience.
DVD / 2013 / 67 minutes
16 ACRES
Director: Richard Hankin
The rebuilding of ground zero is one of the most architecturally, politically, and emotionally complex urban renewal projects in history. The struggle has encompassed eleven years, nineteen government agencies, a dozen projects and over $20 billion. Aside from the engineering challenges, several constituencies-politicians, developers, architects, insurance companies, local residents, and relatives of 9/11 victims-profess a claim to the site and are often in conflict with one another. According to The New York Times, "Where some saw lucrative real estate, others saw a graveyard. Where some saw Rockefeller Center or Lincoln Center or Grand Central Terminal, others saw Gettysburg."
Today, three thousand workers are building four of the tallest skyscrapers in America, a train station, a performing arts center and a sacred memorial and museum. What will emerge in downtown Manhattan will redefine the city and country for generations.
16 Acres is the story of how and why this historic project got built. At the heart of the story is the dramatic tension between noblest intentions, the desire of everyone involved to "get it right," and the politics, hubris, ego, and ideology. As with all great urban projects, from the Pyramids to Rome's Colleseum to Rockefeller Center, a small group of powerful people will dictate the outcome. With inside access to the project and these key players, 16 Acres tells the story behind the headlines.
Featuring Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Governor George Pataki, Chris Ward (Executive Director of the Port Authority), developer Larry Silverstein, architects Daniel Libeskind, David Childs, and Michael Arad, and relatives and advocates of the 9/11 victims. The also introduces a supporting cast of Pritzker-prize winning international architects and engineers; influential journalists who have covered the rebuilding; construction workers, as well as neighbors, critics and observers who are very much part of the fabric of New York.
DVD / 2012 / 95 minutes
OYLER HOUSE, THE
Director: Mike Dorsey
In 1959, a working-class government employee named Richard Oyler, living in the tiny desert town of Lone Pine, California, asked world-famous modern architect Richard Neutra to design his modest family home. To Oyler's surprise, Neutra agreed. Thus began an unlikely friendship that would last for the rest of Neutra's life.
Considered the "father of California Modern Architecture," Time Magazine put Richard Neutra on their cover in 1949, ranking him second only to Frank Lloyd Wright among America's greatest architects. The Oyler House: Richard Neutra's Desert Retreat explores how a man of his stature came to befriend this modest, small-town family, and his love for the home's stunning desert setting, which Neutra compared to the grandness of the mystical Gobi Desert.
Now owned by the actress Kelly Lynch (Road House, Drugstore Cowboy) and her writer-producer husband Mitch Glazer (Scrooged, Magic City), the post & beam-style home and its exotic surroundings shine through beautiful 5K digital cinematography, and the story comes to life through interviews with Richard Oyler, Kelly Lynch, Neutra's two sons, including modern architect Dion Neutra, and well-known Los Angeles real estate agent Crosby Doe, who has represented homes by some of history's greatest modern architects.
DVD / 2012 / 46 minutes
BIOPHILIC DESIGN: THE ARCHITECTURE OF LIFE
By Stephen R. Kellert and Bill Finnegan
A design revolution that connects buildings to the natural world, buildings where people feel and perform better.
Biophilic Design is an innovative way of designing the places where we live, work, and learn. We need nature in a deep and fundamental fashion, but we have often designed our cities and suburbs in ways that both degrade the environment and alienate us from nature.
The recent trend in green architecture has decreased the environmental impact of the built environment, but it has accomplished little in the way of reconnecting us to the natural world, the missing piece in the puzzle of sustainable development.
Come on a journey from our evolutionary past and the origins of architecture to the world's most celebrated buildings in a search for the architecture of life. Together, we will encounter buildings that connect people and nature--hospitals where patients heal faster, schools where children's test scores are higher, offices where workers are more productive, and communities where people know more of their neighbors and families thrive.
Featured are communities and buildings from Scandinavia, Germany, France and Britain to the Canadian and American northwest, American southwest, and New England. They include: California Academy of Sciences, Doernbecher Children's Hospital, Fallingwater, Viaduc des Arts, Google/YouTube Headquarters, Sahlgrenska Hospital (Psychiatric Department), High Point (Seattle Housing Authority), Johnson Wax Building, Sidwell Friends Middle School, Oxford Museum of Natural History, Village Homes (Davis, CA), and Kroon Hall (Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies).
Amongst those interviewed are: Edward O. Wilson, Bill McDonough, Judi Heerwagen, Jason McLennan, Tim Beatley, Bill Browning, Bert Gregory, Kent Bloomer, Claire Cooper Marcus, Michael Taylor, David Orr, Gus Speth, and Richard Louv.
Biophilic Design points the way toward creating healthy and productive habitats for modern humans.
DVD / 2011 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adult) / 62 minutes
EAMES: THE ARCHITECT AND THE PAINTER
Directors: Jason Cohn & Bill Jersey
The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames are widely regarded as America's most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products, from splints for wounded military during World War II, to photography, interiors, multi-media exhibits, graphics, games, films and toys. But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life - from the development of modernism, to the rise of the computer age - has been less widely understood. Narrated by James Franco, Eames: the Architect and the Painter is the first film dedicated to these creative geniuses and their work.
DVD / 2011 / 82 minutes
HOW MUCH DOES YOUR BUILDING WEIGH, MR. FOSTER?
Director: Norberto Lopez Amado & Carlos Carcas
A portrait of one of the world's premier architects, How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster? follows Norman Foster's unending quest to improve the quality of life through design. By revealing his origins to how his dreams and influences inspired the design of emblematic projects like the world's largest building and its tallest bridge, Foster offers some striking solutions to humanity's increasing demand on urban centers.
DVD / 2011 / 78 minutes
I.M. PEI: BUILDING CHINA MODERN
Directed by Anne Makepeace
Architect I.M. Pei returns to his home city of Suzhou, China to build a modern museum that complements the architecture of the 2,500 year-old city and sets a course for modern Chinese architecture.
I.M. Pei has been called the most important living modern architect, defining the landscapes of some of the world's greatest cities. A monumental figure in his field and a laureate of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize, Pei is the senior statesman of modernism and last surviving link to such great early architects as Le Corbusier, Gropius, and Mies van der Rohe.
Entering into the twilight of his career and well into his eighties when the project began, Pei returns to his ancestral home of Suzhou, China to work on his most personal project to date. He is commissioned to build a modern museum in the city's oldest neighborhood which is populated by classical structures from the Ming and Qing dynasties. For the architect who placed the pyramid at the Louvre, the test to integrate the new with the old is familiar but still difficult. The enormous task is to help advance China architecturally without compromising its heritage. In the end, what began as his greatest challenge and a labor of sentiment, says Pei, ultimately becomes "my biography."
DVD / 2010 / (Grades 10-12, College, Adult) / 53 minutes
GRAND PARIS: THE PRESIDENT AND THE ARCHITECT
By Bregtje van der Haak
Paris was the first truly modern large city. But it has remained largely unchanged since the 1860s.
Now, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has a vision to turn Paris into a model super-metropolis for the 21st century - a post-Kyoto sustainable city of 12 million that will break down the distinction between downtown and suburb, and that will drive France's economic growth. He calls it "Grand Paris" and he is determined that it will be the crown jewel of his legacy.
To realize his vision, Sarkozy's government engages 10 star architects, including France's Djamel Klouche and Roland Castro, Mike Davies from the UK, and Winy Maas, from Holland. Their mission: to spend a year rethinking Paris.
GRAND PARIS offers a compelling and sometimes suspenseful chronicle of the process, as the architects try to distill months of research and discussion into workable plans. It takes us inside some of the world's top architectural firms, as they compete for an opportunity to reshape one of the world's greatest cities.
The film focuses particularly on Winy Maas, whose designs include the Netherlands' pavilion at the 2000 World's Fair, and master plans for an eco-city in Spain and for the Dutch town of Almere.
The challenges he and the other architects face are immense. How can industrial production and the knowledge economy be integrated? Should the city have one center, or be multi-polar? What kinds of transportation hubs are needed? How can residents of city and suburbs - separated physically, economically and by social status - be brought together in solidarity?
Maas begins with aerial and walking tours of the city, and with interviews with people living in the region. The result is a catalog of the seemingly intractable problems that have plagued Paris for well over a century. They include the stark separation between the posh neighborhoods of the city proper and the sprawling suburbs that ring the downtown, a lack of effective public transit, an extreme housing shortage, and neighborhoods that combine old village centres with bland towers of low-cost housing units. According to fellow architect Patrick Celeste, the city is "a mosaic of obstacles."
In addition to the demands of the Grand Paris project, Maas and the other architects in the film waver between being impressed with Sarkozy's vision, and worrying that they are simply being used for political purposes. For French architects the question is a particularly burning one. Are they being courted to truly bring about effective change in the city? Or to burnish the reputation of a leader whose politics many dislike?
Despite the challenges, the Grand Paris architects are imbued with a sense of optimism and possibility. But when the world's economy comes near collapse, the planners must face the possibility that growth can no longer be taken for granted, and that the public may have lost the taste for large-scale projects.
Will Paris be a bold model for future urban development? Or will the problems of the last 150 years drag on for decades to come?
GRAND PARIS can be viewed in conjunction with Paris, Ring Road, an exploration of the changes wrought by the Boulevard Peripherique circling the city; and Paris, 19th century, on the dramatic overhaul of the city led by Baron Haussmann in the 1860s. Together, a triology of films on the dynamic evolution of an iconic global city.
DVD (Color) / 2009 / 50 minutes
RISE OF THE MEDIA ARCHITECT, THE (PETER EISENMAN)
Peter Eisenman, architect, urban planner and author, is principle of Eisenman Architects. In 2005, he completed the Memorial to the Murdered Jews in Berlin, and is currently building the City of Culture of Galicia in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. As well known for his theoretical work as his built projects, he was a member of the New York Five and exponent of Deconstructivism. He is the Louis I. Kahn visiting professor of architecture at Yale.
In this talk, Eisenman explores his current preoccupations. He discusses the impact of the current media culture on architecture and architects; society's declining engagement with the built environment as a result of new communication technologies such as texting and Twitter; the significance of Barack Obama's appointment as America's 44th President; and the importance of writing in the practice of architecture.
CD-ROM / 2009 / 32 minutes
BIRD'S NEST: HERZOG AND DE MEURON IN CHINA
By Christoph Schaub & Michael Schindhelm
Many events for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games took place in the brand new, 100,000-seat National Stadium. Design plans for this massive structure began in 2003, when Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron were selected by the Chinese government to design the new stadium, which because of its curved steel-net walls was soon dubbed by locals as the "bird's nest."
BIRD'S NEST chronicles this five-year effort, as well as Herzog and de Meuron's design for a new city district in Jinhua, involving hotels, office and residential buildings. Both projects involved complex and often difficult negotiations and communications between two cultures, two architectural traditions and two political systems. Herzog and de Meuron, the Basle-based architects, find themselves working with China's largest state construction company, Chinese artist and architect Ai Wei Wei, lawyers, and countless government bureaucrats.
The film reveals how Chinese cultural tradition affects both projects, with the architects carefully researching esthetic and philosophical concepts of Chinese society and culture, attempting to define universal qualities of "beauty" and being careful to avoid imposing Western ideas, and above all to create buildings that will blend in culturally by being sensitive to Chinese cultural traditions and ways of living.
In addition to following the progress of both projects, from initial design and groundbreaking, BIRD'S NEST features interviews with Herzog and de Meuron, Chinese architects Ai Wei Wei and Yu Qiu Rong, plus additional commentary by cultural advisor Dr. Uli Sigg, the former Swiss Ambassador to China, Professor Zhi Yin of Beijing's Tsinhua University, and Li Aiqing, Chairman of Beijing State-Owned Assets Management.
In showing the cultural barriers, political pressures, aesthetic concepts, client demands, and budgetary limitations of these major architectural projects-one intended to promote China's international appearance, the other designed to cater to the daily needs of the Chinese people-BIRD'S NEST explores how such international endeavors are helping to develop a "new tradition" in architecture.
"For those of you who aren't yet obsessed with Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron-the Swiss architects behind London's Tate Modern, the Barcelona Forum, the de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco, Allianz Arena in Munich, and 40 Bond Street in NYC-we think the stadium they've built in Beijing for this summer's Olympic Games might push you over the edge." - Good Magazine
DVD (Color) / 2008 / 88 minutes
BREEDING ARCHITECTURE (FARSHID MOUSSAVI & ALEJANDRO ZAERA-POLO)
The architects Farshid Moussavi (from Iran) and Alejandro Zaera-Polo (from Spain), wife and husband, met at Harvard, but their collaboration only started when working at OMA in Rotterdam. There they began working on competitions. Then they taught at the AA, London. It was there that they won the competition for the Osanbashi Port Terminal building in Yokohama, and that was the beginning of their practice FOA. Many other commissions have followed.
Included here are the BBC Music Centre, White City, London, the S.E. Coastal Park in Barcelona, and a project for the World Trade Center, New York. They are highly inventive designers. No one of their buildings resembles another. To them, style is anathema. They have been exploring ideas of convergence between landscape and infrastructure; and enjoy working with other people in a collaborative situation, where the client is tough and the project grows in discussion.
CD-ROM / 2007 / 23 minutes
FUTURE OF MUD, THE: A TALE OF HOUSES AND LIVES IN DJENNE
Directed by Susan Vogel
Through the story of a mason in Djenne, Komusa Tenapo, and his family, this documentary examines an African tradition of mud architecture in Mali. The environmental genius of these ancient construction techniques - thick walls with tiny windows that keep the interiors cool despite the stifling heat - is expressed in strikingly beautiful designs that have won the town of Djenne designation as a World Heritage site.
THE FUTURE OF MUD reveals Komusa's hand building methods, utilizing sun-dried bricks made of mud from the flood plain which contains decayed fish, and cattle manure that are mixed with organic materials such as straw and rice chaff. The film shows him at work on two building sites, and at the annual repair of the Great Mosque, employing thousand-year-old construction techniques, plus the secret knowledge he inherited from his family of masons, including religious rituals to protect homes and workers from evil spirits.
Komousa, family members and Madame Diallo, a Cultural Heritage official, present information on the history of Malian architecture. The film also shows the annual replastering of Dejenne's Great Mosque, the largest mud brick building in the world, a day-long, boisterous community effort, and a major public celebration observed by local residents and tourists.
DVD (Color) / 2007 / 58 minutes
GREAT EXPECTATIONS: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE HISTORY OF VISIONARY ARCHITECTURE
By Jesper Wachtmeister
GREAT EXPECTATIONS introduces us to the most significant architectural movements and personalities of the 20th century, including, among many others, Le Corbusier's functionalist cities, Buckminster Fuller's lightweight geodesic domes, Moshe Safdie's Habitat '67 prefab apartments, Rudolf Steiner's Goetheanum and other anthroposophy buildings in Switzerland, Oscar Niemeyer's sleek urban designs for Brasilia, Paolo Soleri's "archology" of crystal-like desert cities, Antti Lovag's curved surfaces of Palais Bulles in France, Jacque Fresco's utopian Venus Project in Florida, and Peter Cook and Colin Fournier's biomorphic Kunsthaus Graz in Austria.
Using archival and contemporary footage, animation and interviews, GREAT EXPECTATIONS tells the fascinating story of these grand architectural visions, both realized and unrealized, as explained by great thinkers with revolutionary, if not always successful, ideas.
DVD (Color) / 2007 / 52 minutes
EILEEN GRAY: DESIGNER AND ARCHITECT
By Jorg Bundschuh
Eileen Gray (1878-1976) was always ahead of her time. Thirty years after her death, she is still considered as the very essence of the Modern. Everyone has seen her furniture-including the famous Adjustable Table, the Lota Sofa, and the Tube Light-but most people don't really know the designer and architect who created them.
Born to an aristocratic family of Irish-Scottish heritage, Gray studied at the Slade School of Fine Arts in London before moving to Paris in 1902 where she continued her studies and, in a revolt against prevailing art nouveau conventions, mastered lacquer work and established the Galerie Jean Desert, where she sold her avant-garde, luxury furniture pieces intended both to fulfill a function and to inspire the spirit.
EILEEN GRAY-DESIGNER AND ARCHITECT also examines the history of her architectural creations, including E.1027, one of the most famous houses in architectural history, built in Roquebrune, France, in 1926. This modernist seaside villa-an L-shaped, flat-roofed building with floor-to-ceiling windows and a spiral staircase, utilizing natural light and ventilation-was designed, said Gray, for a "minimum of space and maximum of comfort." E.1027 has today been declared a French national monument and is presently being restored.
Using archival footage, excerpts from Gray's own writings, plus interviews with Jennifer Goff, Curator of the National Museum of Ireland, which houses a permanent Gray exhibition, Philippe Garner of Christie's auction house, and Zeev Aram, Chairman of Aram Designs in London, who today produces reproductions of Gray's furniture, EILEEN GRAY chronicles this resolutely independent designer's artistic formation and bohemian lifestyle, her extensive travels and influences, the development of her distinctive designs, and her relations with fellow artists and architects such as Jean Badovici, Seizo Sugawara and Le Corbusier.
DVD (Color) / 2006 / 52 minutes
ABORIGINAL ARCHITECTURE: LIVING ARCHITECTURE
Directed by Paul M. Rickard
New structures in seven North American Native communities that reinterpret traditional forms for contemporary purposes.
ABORIGINAL ARCHITECTURE LIVING ARCHITECTURE offers a fascinating in-depth look into the diversity of North American Native architecture. Featuring expert commentary and stunning imagery, this program provides a virtual tour of seven Aboriginal communities -- Pueblo, Mohawk, Inuit, Crow, Navajo, Coast Salish and Haida -- revealing how each is actively reinterpreting and adapting traditional forms for contemporary purposes.
Everyone is familiar with certain types of Aboriginal architecture. Traditional igloos and teepees are two of the most enduring symbols of North America itself. But how much do we really know about the types of structures Native Peoples designed, engineered, and built?
For more than three hundred years, Native communities in North America have had virtually no indigenous architecture. Communities have made do with low-cost government housing and community projects designed by strangers in far away places.
Thankfully, across the continent, political, financial, and cultural changes have created a renaissance of Native design. Modern Aboriginal architects are turning to ancient forms, adapting them in response to changes in the natural and social environment, and creating contemporary structures that hearken to the past.
Employing old and new materials and techniques and with an emphasis on harmony and balance, Native designers are successfully melding current community needs with tradition. The resulting buildings are testaments to the enduring strength and ingenuity of Aboriginal design.
DVD (Color, Closed Captioned) / 2005 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adult) / 93 minutes
REGULAR OR SUPER: VIEWS ON MIES VAN DER ROHE
By Joseph Hillel & Patrick Demers
In 1967, at the end of a career spanning more than six decades, which included the design of the Seagram Building in New York, the Lake Shore Drive Apartment Buildings in Chicago, and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, architect Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) designed a simple gas station near Montreal. The story of that gas station serves as the point of departure for REGULAR OR SUPER, which examines Mies' entire body of work (more than 70 buildings) and a sparse style that reflects his motto that "less is more."
Mies began his architectural career in Germany early in the 20th century and during the Thirties taught at the famed Bauhaus School of Art and Design in Berlin. In 1938, after the school was shut down by the Nazis, Mies emigrated to Chicago where he designed 22 buildings for the Illinois Institute of Technology. Over the next three decades, in a radical break from the predominant beaux arts style, he refined a distinctive, modernist architectural style emphasizing glass and steel in a variety of buildings whose structures creatively integrated surrounding public space.
Featuring stylish cinematography and an evocative jazz score, REGULAR OR SUPER illustrates many of Mies' classic buildings, combining these striking facades with observations from some architecture superstars, including Rem Koolhaas, Elizabeth Diller and Phyllis Lambert, which are interlaced with anecdotes from customers and neighbors of the gas station, plus comments from his biographer and family members.
REGULAR OR SUPER is a fascinating and informative introduction to the work of one of the 20th century's most influential architects and a thought-provoking demonstration of the social and artistic contributions that architecture at its best can make to our urban environments.
DVD (Color, Closed Captioned) / 2004 / 57 minutes
KOCHUU: JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE / INFLUENCE & ORIGIN
By Jesper Wachtmeister
KOCHUU is a visually stunning film about modern Japanese architecture, its roots in the Japanese tradition, and its impact on the Nordic building tradition. Winding its way through visions of the future and traditional concepts, nature and concrete, gardens and high-tech spaces, the film explains how contemporary Japanese architects strive to unite the ways of modern man with the old philosophies in astounding constructions.
KOCHUU, which translates as "in the jar," refers to the Japanese tradition of constructing small, enclosed physical spaces, which create the impression of a separate universe. The film illustrates key components of traditional Japanese architecture, such as reducing the distinction between outdoors and indoors, disrupting the symmetrical, building with wooden posts and beams rather than with walls, modular construction techniques, and its symbiotic relationship with water, light and nature.
The film illustrates these concepts through remarkable views of the Imperial Katsura Palace, the Todai-Ji Temple, the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, the Sony Tower, numerous teahouses and gardens (see link below for complete list), as well as examples of the cross-fertilization evidenced in buildings throughout Scandinavia, and shows how 'invisible' Japanese traditions are evident even in modern, high-tech buildings.
KOCHUU also features interviews with some of Japan's leading architects as well as Scandinavian contemporaries including Pritzker Prize winners Tadao Ando and Sverre Fehn, Toyo Ito, Kazuo Shinohara, Kristian Gullichsen and Juhani Pallasmaa (see link below for complete list and bios).
KOCHUU is a compelling illustration of how the aesthetics of Japanese architecture and design are expressed through simple means, and also shows that the best Japanese architecture, wherever it appears, expresses spiritual qualities that enrich human life.
DVD (Color) / 2003 / 53 minutes
LAGOS / KOOLHAAS
Written and Directed by Bregtje van der Haak
Lagos' population is expected to reach 24 million people by 2020, which would make it the third largest city in the world. Every hour, 21 new inhabitants set out to start a life in the city, a life that is highly unpredictable and requires risk taking, networking and improvisation as essential strategies for survival.
Rem Koolhaas - winner of architecture's Nobel, the Pritzker Architecture Prize - is a Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Harvard. For the past four years Koolhaas and students from The Harvard Project on the City have come to Lagos regularly to research the type of urban environment that is produced by explosive population growth. The Project on the City is framed by two concepts: academia's bewilderment with new forms of accelerated urbanization in developing regions and the maelstrom of redevelopment in existing urban areas; and, second, the failure of the design professions to adequately cope with these changes.
LAGOS / KOOLHAAS follows Koolhaas during his research in Lagos over a period of two years as he wanders through the city, talking with people and recognizing the problems with water, electricity and traffic. But instead of judging the city to be doomed, he is able to interpret this 'culture of congestion' positively, thereby creating a completely new concept of the big city.
For example, in most North American cities we grumble about the traffic and turn up the CD. In Lagos, traffic jams are such an overwhelming feature of the city that they have become a key marketplace. When the cars stop, the trading begins. Or, as Koolhaas's report puts it, "the ubiquitous traffic jam: lulled in congestion, captive to the road's breadth, and thriving with entrepreneurial activity."
For Koolhaas, the key to understanding a city such as Lagos is the realization that it is not the controllable result of Western planning. The city should be seen as an anarchic organism in which the enterprise of the inhabitants turns any apparent disadvantage into an advantage: "Anguish over the city's shortcomings in traditional urban systems obscures the reasons for the continued, exuberant existence of Lagos and other megacities like it. These shortcomings have generated ingenious, critical alternative systems."
DVD (Color) / 2002 / 55 minutes
IN TUNE WITH ARCHITECTS (JANE WERNICK)
The structural engineer, Jane Wernick, was with Ove Arup & Partners off and on from 1976 until she set up her own practice in 1998 in London.
She has worked with top architects - Foster, Rogers, Chipperfield, Wilkinson - and in her recorded talk she describes her contributions to projects with Renzo Piano, Zaha Hadid and, above all, David Marks and Julia Barfield with whom she helped to design the "London Eye" Millennium Wheel.
She says that what she really enjoyed was "the process of collaboration, that is, trying to understand what the different architects' intentions are, and being allowed to contribute and toss my ideas into the pot right from the beginning".
CD-ROM / 2001 / 45 minutes
NEXT INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, THE
William McDonough, Michael Braungart & the Birth of the Sustainable Economy
Architect Bill McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart bring together ecology and human design.
While some environmental observers predict doomsday scenarios in which a rapidly increasing human population is forced to compete for ever scarcer natural resources, Bill McDonough sees a more exciting and hopeful future.
In his vision humanity takes nature itself as our guide reinventing technical enterprises to be as safe and ever-renewing as natural processes.
Can't happen? It's already happening...at Nike, at Ford Motor Company, at Oberlin College, at Herman Miller Furniture, and at DesignTex...and it's part of what architect McDonough and his partner, chemist Michael Braungart, call 'The Next Industrial Revolution.'
Shot in Europe and the United States, the film explores how businesses are transforming themselves to work with nature and enhance profitability.
DVD (Color) / 2001 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adult) / 55 minutes
IN THE MIND OF THE ARCHITECT
Directed by Tim Clark
From the Modernist ideas of Europe and North America, through the eccentricity of Postmodernism, and to the importance of climate and place, this 3-part series from Australia is an investigation into the eclectic world of architects and their creations.
Featuring buildings that are striking, controversial or simply beautiful, and concentrating on the views and motivations of award-winning architects, including Harry Seidler, Richard Leplastrier, Paul Katsieris, Peter Corrigan, Bernard Seeber, Phillip Cox, Sean Godsell and many others, IN THE MIND OF THE ARCHITECT explores connections between architecture and the human condition, and discusses the brutal politics of building structures.
Part 1, KEEPING THE FAITH explores the relationship between architect and client, including projects where the designer is the client. Looking at houses they design for themselves, for government and for big business, Part 1 also examines the fight between those who prefer innovation, and those who want 'nice', conservative buildings. Is it the architect's responsibility to give us what we want, or to lead us where we haven't been before?
Part 2, THE PUBLIC GOOD: With capital on the move from public to private spending, architects must straddle both worlds and balance the desires of business clients with the obligation to the public good. Cities are the battleground, driven by pressure for commercial development. So who makes the decision? Who cares about the public good with respect to large commercial developments? THE PUBLIC GOOD looks at these and other issues surrounding public development.
Part 3, CORRUGATED DREAMS: The potential of architecture is to enable things to happen - to enhance, not restrict. What gives an architect the confidence to build a great building? Is it a good site, tolerant neighbors, or a gifted contractor? Or is the most important factor a brave client with lots of money? From seemingly hopeless suburbs to a downtown hotel, CORRUGATED DREAMS visits the artistic possibilities of architecture, within the practical context of the 21st Century consumer's needs.
Ultimately IN THE MIND OF THE ARCHITECT explains the process we call architecture - its philosophy and its essential relationship with people.
3 DVDs (Color) / 2000 / 165 minutes
SHIGERU BAN: AN ARCHITECT FOR EMERGENCIES
By Michel Quinejure
The award-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban is noted for his use of inexpensive construction materials such as paperboard and cardboard tubes. While his designs for DIY prefab housing have been adopted by the UN High Commission for Refugees to house earthquake victims in Turkey and Rwanda, Ban has also used these lightweight but sturdy and relatively inexpensive materials to create breathtakingly beautiful homes, pavilions and churches.
SHIGERU BAN features extensive interviews with this innovative young architect (b. 1957), who explains the practical, philosophical and esthetic aspects of his work. In addition to his conservationist interest in using recycled materials, Ban discusses his influences, his concerns with the bidimensional and tridimensional nature of his buildings, his aim to incorporate structural elements into the overall designs, as well as their sensitivity to light and shade, which lends unusual vitality to his buildings.
The film shows the construction of Ban's prefab designs¡Xutilizing cardboard tubes, beer cases and plastic-sheet roofs¡Xfor temporary but surprisingly attractive housing for earthquake victims in Turkey. SHIGERU BAN also provides stunning views of many of Ban's major buildings, whose design concepts he explains in voice-over commentary, including the massive Japanese Pavilion for the 2000 Exposition in Hanover, Germany; the Paper Dome in Gero, Japan; the House with Double Roof in Yamanaka Lake, Japan; the Miyake Design Studio Gallery, the Hanegi Forest Home and the Ivy Structure 2 in Tokyo; the GC Building in Osaka; the Paper Church in Kobe; and the 9 Square Grids House in Hadano.
In showcasing the designs of one of the most innovative architects at work today, SHIGERU BAN reveals that an emphasis on issues of conservation, economy, and accessibility does not necessarily involve a sacrifice in architectural beauty.
DVD (Color) / 2000 / 52 minutes
RENZO PIANO: WORK IN PROGRESS
By Marc Petitjean
Renzo Piano, the world-renowned independent and non-conformist architect (b. 1937 in Genoa), owes his fame in part to the vast scope of his work. From the Pompidou Center in Paris to the recently inaugurated Centre Jean-Marie Tjibaou in New Caledonia, and from the De Menil Museum in Houston and the Kansai International Airport Terminal in Japan to the New York Times tower in Manhattan and the San Nicola Stadium in Italy, Renzo Piano constructions are found throughout the world.
By following three projects at different stages of progress-including the Padre Pio liturgical center and the Nola Cultural & Commercial Center in Italy, the first discussions about the Paul Klee Museum in Bern, and the opening of the reconstructed Potsdam Square in Berlin-RENZO PIANO examines the artistic philosophy of Piano and the working methods of his Renzo Piano Building Workshop.
Jetting from one architect design workshop to another, and from one worksite to another, we see how Piano stays true to the artisan approach that underlies his initial creations, and his efforts to find answers to the specific problems of these projects in terms of the history and geography of the construction locales, their function and the financial context.
Throughout the film, during work sessions and consultations, and in voice-over commentary, Piano explains his views of architecture as a "contaminated art," one in which the artist must contend with such issues as people in power, time, schedule, and technical problems. He believes that architecture should not be a socially isolated practice but one that coexists with other disciplines such as science, technology, sociology, and anthropology. On a more spiritual level, he describes architecture as the "construction of emotions with space," whereby buildings should become a focus for social encounters, offering the public an opportunity for contemplation, silence, and dialogue.
As a revealing personal and professional portrait, RENZO PIANO brings together many of his closest collaborators-architects, engineers, and maquette-makers-to create a "real-life" portrait of an architect who sees his profession as a living thing, evolving with time and practice.
DVD (Color) / 1999 / 52 minutes
SANTIAGO CALATRAVA'S TRAVELS
By Christoph Schaub
Widely recognized as the greatest living designer of transportation structures like airports and train stations, award-winning, world-renowned architect Santiago Calatrava came to international prominence at an early stage in his career. His popular yet controversial creations can now be found all over the globe, and his stunning proposal recently won the commission for the new transportation hub at the rebuilt World Trade Center in New York City.
Accompanying Calatrava to various work sites we begin to understand the problems someone in his position encounters and get to know him during his hectic work schedule. In unexpected quiet moments (on an airplane, in a hotel lobby, sitting at a bar) he paints or draws, dedicating the rare moments of serenity to his work as well. Some of the films most powerful moments include his comments on the creative process and visual thought.
A specialist at sculptural works, what distinguishes Calatrava from other celebrity architects is his talent and skill as a construction engineer. We visit construction sites, railway stations, bridges, concert halls, airports... Through the images and sounds of the documentary, space, function, form and atmosphere are conveyed. The forms are extraordinary: dynamic, frozen movements - buildings that evoke nature. In these forms SANTIAGO CALATRAVA'S TRAVELS searches for a visual framework of remembrance, opening the door to Calatrava's associations or references in architectural and art history.
The result is a tour of his oeuvre and an encounter with extraordinary shapes; dynamic equipoise, forms that hearken to waves, trees, wind, rock, wings, the natural world.
DVD (Color) / 1999 / 77 minutes
ARCHITECTURE OF DOOM, THE
Director: Peter Cohen
Featuring never-before-seen film footage of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime, The Architecture of Doom captures the inner workings of the Third Reich and illuminates the Nazi aesthetic in art, architecture and popular culture. From Nazi party rallies to the final days inside Hitler's bunker, this sensational film shows how Adolf Hitler rose from being a failed artist to creating a world of ponderous kitsch and horrifying terror.
Hittler worshipped ancient Rome and Greece, and dreamed of a new Golden Age of classical art and monumental architecture, populated by beautiful, patriotic Aryans. "Degenerate" artists and "inferior" races had no place in his lurid fantasy. As this riveting film shows, the Nazis went from banning the art of modernists like Picasso to forced euthanasia of the retarded and sick, and finally to the persecution of homosexuals and the extermination of Jews.
DVD / 1991 / 119 minutes
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Higher Learning is a 1995 American drama film written and directed by John Singleton and starring an ensemble cast. The film follows the changing lives of three incoming freshmen at the fictional Columbus University: Malik Williams (Omar Epps), a black track star who struggles with academics; Kristen Connor (Kristy Swanson), a shy and naive girl; and Remy (Michael Rapaport), a lonely and confused man seemingly out of place in his new environment.[1]
The film also featured Tyra Banks' first performance in a theatrical film. Laurence Fishburne won an NAACP Image Award for "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture"; Ice Cube was also nominated for the award. This was the last film appearance of Dedrick D. Gobert, who was shot dead in 1994 prior to the film's release.
The exterior shots and outdoor scenes were shot on the campus of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) while the interiors were shot at Sony Pictures Studios.
Plot
At fictitious Columbus University, students Malik Williams, a black track athlete, Kristen Connor, a white woman, and Remy, a white young man, are starting their freshman year.
Kristen's roommate is Monet, a black student. Malik's roommate is Wayne, a white student. Both sets of roommates generally get along.   Monet and Malik attend a dorm party hosted by Fudge, an Afrocentric and militant senior. Remy, Fudge's roommate, is upset at the loud rap music being played so late. He flags down an all-white campus security patrol to break up the party. Fudge is upset that lead Officer Bradley comes down hard on the black students, but allows the room down the hall to continue their loud "hillbilly" music. Kristen, while walking home, meets Taryn, a junior as well as an openly lesbian student. Taryn warns her about walking alone late at night and invites her to a student group.
Malik and Kristen's introductory political science class is taught by Professor Maurice Phipps, a conservative black man from the West Indies. Professor Phipps challenges the class to determine who they are for themselves and not let others categorize them.
Fudge and his friend Dreads play loud music, disrupting Remy's studying. When Remy complains, Fudge mocks and threatens him, causing Remy to move in with a new roommate, Jewish student David. Later, Remy loses at a video game to Malik, who further mocks him.
Frat boy Billy rapes a drunken Kristen. Monet finds Kristen crying on her bed, then fields a racially charged call from Billy. Angered, Monet turns to Fudge, who recruits his friends to confront him at a frat party. Kristen points out Billy to the black students, who pull him outside and force him to apologize to Monet (not knowing that he raped Kristen).
Kristen joins Taryn's student group on harmony between different races and cliques. With time, she eventually opens up to Taryn about her rape, with Taryn encouraging her to report it and attempting to console her. As days pass, Kristen slowly realizes her growing attraction to Taryn.
Remy has become more isolated.  He is invited for a drink by Scott Moss, a white supremacist and neo-Nazi skinhead, along with Scott's skinhead friends: Erik, James, and the weight-lifting, hulking Knocko.
Malik confronts Phipps about a paper, arguing for a better grade. When Phipps shows him the various spelling and grammar errors, Malik calls him a sellout for the "white establishment". Phipps angrily responds that the world owes Malik nothing and he must work for his own good to make a difference in the world. When Malik's teammates confront him for a poor performance at a track meet, he responds with Fudge's militant Afrocentric ideology. He walks away and flirts with fellow runner Deja. With time they become a couple, and Deja helps Malik with his essay and spelling errors.
Remy spends more time with Scott and his gang. Scott preaches his racist beliefs, and the troubled Remy is slowly being convinced that "the white man is endangered", agreeing to shave his head and join Scott's group.
After attending a rape awareness rally with Taryn, Kristen asks to spend the night. Taryn rebuffs her, wanting Kristen to be sure. Kristen eventually starts separate relationships with Wayne and Taryn, who are unaware that Kristen is sleeping with both of them.
Remy confronts Malik with racial slurs. Remy later pulls a handgun on Malik and David, hurling racial slurs at them both as he packs his belongings and drops out of the university. Again, Officer Bradley and the all-white campus security assume Malik is at fault, letting Remy escape. Malik decides to move in with Fudge and his like-minded black friends, while Remy moves in with Scott and the neo-Nazi skinheads.  After Malik and his black friends win a fistfight against Remy and his skinhead friends, Scott first tells Remy he should not drop out of school because they do not just need soldiers, but also educated people like lawyers to fight for their cause. However Remy, feeling punked by Malik, just wants to turn to violence. So after Remy insists that he is "for real", Scott sighs and shows Remy the sniper rifle. He challenges Remy to kill for the white race.
Kristen organizes a peace festival with Monet to calm down the students. Malik and Deja attend, and are caught in the frenzy when Remy opens fire from the rooftop of a nearby building. Two students are killed, including Deja, who dies in Malik's arms. Malik runs into the building and attacks Remy, trying to choke him to death when Officer Bradley and his campus guards intervene and beat Malik while letting Remy go. The campus guards finally approach Remy, who looks and apologizes to Malik for everything that he did and commits suicide.
A few days later, Malik and Phipps discuss his future at the university, with Phipps saying he trusts Malik's judgment. Later, Malik and Kristen are seen talking, for the first time, at an impromptu memorial site. Kristen feels guilty about the deaths because she started the Peace Fest, but Malik assuages her guilt.
As Phipps leaves his office, the final shot shows the United States flag fluttering in the wind as the caption "unlearn" appears over it, fading to the closing credits.
Cast
Omar Epps as Malik Williams
Kristy Swanson as Kristen Connor
Michael Rapaport as Remy
Ice Cube as Fudge White
Jennifer Connelly as Taryn
Tyra Banks as Deja
Regina King as Monet
Jason Wiles as Wayne
Cole Hauser as Scott Moss
Busta Rhymes as Dreads
Laurence Fishburne as Professor Maurice Phipps
Bradford English as Officer Bradley
Jay R. Ferguson as Billy
Andrew Bryniarski as Knocko
Trevor St. John as James
Talbert Morton as Erik
Adam Goldberg as David Isaacs
Bridgette Wilson as Nicole (cameo)
Kari Wuhrer as Claudia
Randall Batinkoff as Chad Shadowhill
Morris Chestnut as Track Anchor (Uncredited)
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Architectural Design
SUNCHEON CITY, KOREA: HOLDING THE ECO-LINE
By Charles Jencks
American-born Charles Jencks is a landscape architect, theorist and critic best known for his Garden of Cosmic Speculation, near Dumfries, Scotland, and his writings on post-modernism. He has designed landscapes projects around the world, including Parco Portello in Milan, Northumberlandia near Newcastle, England and Wu Chi at the Olympic Forest Park in Beijing. Jencks is also co-founder of the Maggie's Centres - a series of cancer care centres designed By leading modern architects, named in honour of his late wife Maggie Keswick. In this talk, Jencks discusses his recent project Holding the Eco-line, a landscape design for the Suncheon Bay expo in 2013. He explains the development of the design and his Korean hosts' reaction to it, as well as the importance of symbolism in his work, and his latest creation the Crawick Multiverse, inspired By cutting edge theories of the origin of the universe.
DVD-ROM / 2015 / 39 minutes
BREAKING INTO CHINA: FENGMING MOUNTAIN PARK
By Martha Schwartz
Martha Schwartz first came to prominence with her Boston bagel garden - a radical manifesto for a more artful approach to landscape design. Her recent projects include Dublin Docklands Grand Canal Square in Dublin, Mesa Arts Centre in Arizona and Jacob Javits Convention Center Plaza, New York. In this talk, she describes her project Fengming Mountain Park in the Chinese city Chongqing for a major Chinese developer. The project is a rectangular section cut through a large construction site designed to showcase the sales centre for a series of forthcoming residential towers. Building on the idea of zigzagging movement of water down a mountain, she has created a processional route across the site, marked by a series of monumental orange cut-steel structures - like origami mountains on legs - that glow at night. This is a truly exciting time to be working in China, she says, with construction taking place on an epic scale and developers just beginning to appreciate landscape architecture as art-form.
CD-ROM / 2014
NEW RIJKSMUSEUM, THE
Director: Oeke Hoogendijk
In 2003, the ambitious renovation of one of the world's greatest museums began. The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, home to a glorious collection including masterpieces by Rembrandt and Vermeer, was supposed to reopen its doors in 2008 after five years of construction. But from the start, the project was opposed by unyielding bureaucrats and public resistance. The museum directors battled politicians, designers, curators and even the Dutch Cyclists Union as they struggled to complete the renovation and put its massive collection back on public display. Five years late, with costs exceeding half a billion dollars, the museum finally reopened.
Oeke Hoogendijk's epic documentary captures the entire story from design to completion, offering a fly-on-the-wall perspective on one of the most challenging museum construction projects ever conceived. With its decade-long scope, the film reveals a surprisingly dramatic story that art and architecture lovers will not want to miss.
DVD (Dutch, English, French, and Spanish with English Subtitles) / 2014 / 131 minutes
STRANGE AND FAMILIAR: ARCHITECTURE ON FOGO ISLAND
Director: Marcia Connelly & Katherine Knight
In a rapidly urbanized world, what does the future hold for traditional rural societies? As Fogo Island, a small community off the coast of Newfoundland, struggles to sustain its unique way of life in the face of a collapse of its cod fishing industry, architect Todd Saunders and social entrepreneur Zita Cobb's vision for positive change results in the envisioning, designing and building of strikingly original architecture that will become a catalyst for social change.
Experience this staggeringly beautiful place and how the community and local workers, together with Saunders and Cobb, come together and play a role in this creative process during a time of optimism and uncertain hope. Change is coming to Fogo Island.
DVD / 2014 / 54 minutes
SAGRADA: THE MYSTERY OF CREATION
Director: Stefan Haupt
One of the most iconic structures ever built, Barcelona's La Sagrada Familia is a unique and fascinating architectural project conceived by Antoni Gaudi in the late 19th century. More than 125 years after construction began, the basilica still remains unfinished. Sagrada: The Mystery of Creation celebrates Gaudi's vision and the continuing work of architects as they strive to complete the colossal project while delving into the process of artistic creation in a historical context.
La Sagrada Familia was commissioned by the Order of St Joseph in 1882. After conflicts arose between the Order and the original architect, 31 year old Antoni Gaudi was hired to complete the design. A devout Catholic and architectural prodigy, Gaudi envisioned a place of worship that combined elements of classic French Gothic style and the curvilinear, organic aspects of the budding Art Nouveau school.
Despite decades of delays, thousands of artisans, laborers, and designers have contributed to the ambitious and glorious landmark. Inspired by Gaudi's vision, the film explores our fundamentally human search for the meaning of existence, and the quest for creative expression.
In the midst of the hustle and bustle of the Catalonian metropolis, the documentary investigates the structural developments of the Sagrada Familia while allowing the audience time to observe, perceive, and reflect upon the historical, artistic and personal significance of the basilica.
DVD (Catalan, Spanish, French, and German with English Subtitles) / 2013 / 90 minutes
SUKKAH CITY
Director: Jason Hutt
When best-selling author Joshua Foer (Moonwalking with Einstein) began to build his first sukkah, a small hut that Jews build and dwell in every fall for the holiday of Sukkot, he wanted to move beyond the generic plywood boxes and canvas tents that have become the unimaginative status quo. He discovered that while the bible outlines the basic parameters for what a sukkah should look like and how it should function, it leaves plenty of room for variation and interpretation. Foers thought, 'what if contemporary architects and designers were challenged to design and construct twelve radical sukkahs? What would they come up with?' And so was born the design competition and exhibition known as "Sukkah City."
Sukkah City chronicles the architecture competition created by bestselling author Joshua Foer and Roger Bennett (Reboot co-founder) that explored the creative potential of the ancient Jewish sukkah and created a temporary exhibition of 12 newly designed sukkahs in the heart of New York City. The film goes behind the scenes of the jury day, the construction, and the exhibition to provide an entertaining and inspiring portrait of the project's visionary architects, planners and structures and celebrates an exciting, singular moment in the American Jewish experience.
DVD / 2013 / 67 minutes
TINY: A STORY ABOUT LIVING SMALL
Director: Merete Mueller & Christopher Smith
What is home? And how do we find it? Through one couple's attempt to build a Tiny House with no building experience, this charming documentary raises questions about sustainability, good design, and the American Dream.
From 1970 to 2010, the average size of a new house in America has almost doubled. Yet in recent years, many are redefining their American Dream to focus on flexibility, financial freedom, and quality of life over quantity of space. These self-proclaimed "Tiny Housers" live in homes smaller than the average parking space, often built on wheels to bypass building codes and zoning laws. TINY takes us inside six of these homes stripped to their essentials, exploring the owners' stories and the design innovations that make them work.
TINY is a coming-of-age story for a generation that is more connected, yet less tied-down than ever, and for a society redefining its priorities in the face of a changing financial and environmental climate. More than anything, TINY invites its viewers to dream big and imagine living small.
DVD / 2013 / 62 minutes
BREEDING ARCHITECTURE
By Farshid Moussavi (FOA) & Alejandro Zaera-Polo (FOA)
The architects Farshid Moussavi (from Iran) and Alejandro Zaera-Polo (from Spain), husband and wife, met at Harvard, but their collaboration only started when working at OMA in Rotterdam. There they began working on competitions. Then they taught at the AA, London. It was there that they won the competition for the Osanbashi Port Terminal building in Yokohama, and that was the beginning of their practice FOA. Many other commissions have followed. Included here are the BBC Music Centre, White City, London, the S.E.Coastal Park in Barcelona, and a project for the World Trade Center, New York. They are highly inventive designers. No one of their buildings resembles another. To them, style is anathema. They have been exploring ideas of convergence between landscape and infrastructure; and enjoy working with other people in a collaborative situation, where the client is tough and the project grows in discussion. No matter the constraints, they say they have a lot of fun.
CD-ROM / 2007
ISAMU NOGUCHI
By Shoji Sadao
The architect Shoji Sadao, partner of Buckminster Fuller, met Isamu Noguchi through him and worked with both of them for many years, eventually becoming a partner also to Noguchi. He is now Director of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation in Long Island City, New York. Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988), the world-famous Japanese American sculptor, transformed landscapes and sculpted space into places of symbolism, mythology and abstraction. Sadao describes some of the landscape work they did together. He also relates how Noguchi came to design the bamboo and paper Akari lamps. Noguchi, he concludes, "always wanted to do something timeless"... "eternal verities were what Noguchi looked for".
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SEVEN THEMES
By Niall McLaughlin
The young architect Niall McLaughlin identifies seven themes underlying his work: the use of light, the history of place; materials and making determining the architecture, buildings as metabolisms or ecosystems; building space in the landscape, landscape providing metaphors for buildings, and collaboration. This last he says is a way of 'ambushing his own imagination' and 'a route into originality'. Each of the themes is discussed in relation to one or more of his projects, each solution unique and innovative: small wonder that early in his career he received the accolade of Young Architect of the Year. Born in Geneva, McLaughlin was raised in Ireland. After his architectural training at University College, Dublin (1979-84) he worked for Scott Tallon Walker in Dublin and London, and in 1991 set up his own practice in London while teaching at Oxford Brookes University and later at the Bartlett School of Architecture.
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TALE OF TWO CITIES, A
By Kathryn Findlay
After graduating from the AA, the Scottish born architect Kathryn Findlay spent 20 years in Japan. In 1987 she set up in partnership there with Eisaku Ushida. Now she is back in London, faced with the switch in cultures and its influence on her work. The Japanese, she says, see the creation of space as a total design involving all the senses. "What is solid and what is temporary becomes much more gradual and fused, and begins to make you more aware of invisible forces, energy, factors that create spaces." Curvilinear, fluid and flowing forms are the basis of most of Ushida Findlay's work, merged with spiral geometry into one organic object. Continuous primary surfaces link the interior and exterior of a house whose shape is formed around a meandering route generated by the circulation system. Large spaces may dissolve into smaller spaces and merge into the landscape. Familiar materials are used in unfamiliar ways to give a twist to the sense of reality. The invisible is made tangible. Such concepts are illustrated in the projects described by Kathryn Findlay in her recorded talk.
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DESIGNING FOR CRICKET
By David Morley
The English architect David Morley trained at Cambridge and the AA. Working with Norman Foster on several projects, he set up their French office which was responsible for the Carre d'Art at Nimes. In 1987 he started his own practice in London and has designed a variety of buildings including a hospital extension, housing, halls of residence for two Oxford colleges and, not least, the award winning work at Lord's Cricket Ground, the subject of his recorded talk. Cricket is quintessentially an English game and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) which owns Lord's is the premier cricket club in the world. In the 1980's it recognised that its leading role should be reflected in the building environment it created. The Mound Stand by Michael Hopkins & Partners, the first example of this attitude, was such a success that they were encouraged to pursue excellence in architectural design in all the subsequent projects that they commissioned; also recognising the importance of unifying and linking individual separate buildings with a clear master plan for the entire grounds. David Morley & Partners were chosen to design three buildings and the master plan while Hopkins, Grimshaw and Future Systems are the authors of the remaining new structures.
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ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN IS OUR TASK
By Serge Chermayeff
The late Serge Chermayeff was born in Russia and educated in Britain where he became a British subject and practised architecture before World War Two. But in 1940, he emigrated to the USA, became an American citizen and devoted his life to teaching environmental design. Many of to-day's leading architects have emerged from his courses benefited by his informed, analytical and incisive approach. First he was at Brooklyn College, NY. Then, in the 1940's, he went to work with Gropius at Harvard. In the 1960's, he joined Paul Rudolph at Yale where he remained until his retirement in 1970 with the title Professor Emeritus. At which point he felt free to travel and study planning in far-flung countries. All this he describes in his recorded talk. And he concludes: "As a teacher, my subject has always been 'environmental design', not 'architecture'. The experience gave me a clear view that professional involvements are not anything that can be frozen. They are constantly changing, growing, adjusting - a natural process, a constant inter-action between environment and the function. Nothing is ever finished, particularly in relation to planning. Everything obsolesces". Gropius once wrote to his students to the following effect: "Don't think that when you have done something it is of importance. Because what is important is that the thread of action behind your action will be picked up by somebody else. Your worth will be the judgement of those who pick up your work and carry it further".
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EXPLORING THE BOUNDARIES OF DESIGN
By Peter Rice
The late Peter Rice liked the title by which he was known in France, 'geometre', for he was as much a thinker and strategist as an engineer. He began his professional career with Ove Arup & Partners working on Sydney Opera House, and later formed part of the team that won the competition for the Pompidou Centre in Paris. Since then he has collaborated with Renzo Piano or Richard Rodgers (members of that team) as well as, briefly, with Frei Otto, and recently with Martin Francis and Ian Ritchie at La Villette. He has always been interested in the scale and detail of a building, detailing being a way of breaking down scale. With Piano he had the object of exploring the whole building process; also of working outside the building industry, for example investigating what a Fiat car might be like in the 1990's. He explored the extent to which computers and software technology can be used to predict and control the performance of a building, and the way in which different materials are expressed and how this influences their use in buildings - cast iron, steel, concrete, Ferro cement, glass, polyesters and plastics, polycarbonate. By continuing to experiment with different materials he hoped to maintain his inventiveness and avoid becoming repetitive as a designer.
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IDEA OF DESIGN, THE
By Alan Fletcher
Alan Fletcher, one of Britain's top graphic designers, was an art student in London in the 50's. But it was not until he studied and worked in the USA that he found his vocation. This in time led to his becoming design consultant to the Time Life group in London. At this point he also teamed up with Colin Forbes and Bob Gill to form the immediately successful partnership Fletcher Forbes & Gill. Later Gill left and the architect Theo Crosby' and the product designer Kenneth Grange' joined them, and the group changed its name to Pentagram and was able to offer a much enlarged range of services. They have numbered most of the world's prestigious industrial companies among their clients. In Fletcher's recording he is concerned with taking out of context the essential idea of his designs. Graphic design being a method of communicating ideas to people, he describes and illustrates many ways in which he has done this, demonstrating his fertile and innovative approach.
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REFURBISHMENT OF NEW YORK'S LINCOLN CENTER, THE (CHARLES RENFRO)
By Charles Renfro
Charles Renfro joined Diller and Scofidio, founded by Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, in 1997. Since Renfro became a partner in 2004, the firm has been known as Diller Scofidio + Renfro. The practice first gained attention for its site-specific, landscape and multi-media work, most notably the Blur Building, a pavilion at the 2002 Swiss Expo. It completed its first major building, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in Boston, in 2006. The renovation of the High Line, a formerly disused elevated railway line running along the west side of Manhattan, has become a much loved addition to the city since it opened in summer 2009. The second phase of the High Line opened in summer 2011. In this talk, Renfro discusses the firm's interventions at Lincoln Centre arts complex in Manhattan's Upper West Side. He discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the original campus, designed in the late 1950s and early 1960s by America's leading architects of the time and outlines Diller Scofidio + Renfro's approach to the refurbishment. He details the various phases of the project, which include opening up the Julliard music school and the Alice Tully concert hall, reworking Dan Kiley's landscape scheme for the North Plaza and re-energising Lincoln Center's front entrance, Robertson Plaza.
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SELF-DESIGNING STRUCTURES
By Frei Otto
German born architect Frei Otto started practice in Berlin in 1952, but in 1968 moved to Warmbronn near Stuttgart. Since 1964 he has been Professor and Director of the Institute of Lightweight Structures at the University of Stuttgart, and he has been a visiting professor at universities all over the world. Although he trained as an architect, his heart is in natural science. He seeks to understand how structures are made by Nature, how much energy and materials etc. are required, and the process by which these come together. His research has led to the design of tented structures that are remarkable for their diversity and inclusiveness - membrane structures, mesh-steel cable-nets, tree structures, asymmetrical self-supporting shells - built for any climate and in any shape or size. He has revived the tent as a leading species of modern tensile architecture. But, as he explains in his recorded talk, he does not only design 'tents'. The ideas developed for his own all-weather, indoor-outdoor, minimum-energy house have led to the ecological multi-storey housing he designed for the 1984 Berlin International Building Exhibition.. Man, he says, must stop destroying Nature and start to see himself as part of it. His opportunity is a nature-oriented technology; natural structures. Professor Otto adds a short statement in German at the end of the talk.
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