Michal Goldman Movies
- 1987
This documentary covers the revival of Yiddish dance band music know as klezmer. For centuries, the music was an important part of the entertainment of European Jews. Turkish, Baltic, and gypsy influences were all added to create the freewheeling, improvisational style. Americans Henry Sapoznik and Hankus Netsky are the accomplished musicians who rediscover their musical roots and heritage with the study and performance of the music. Their bands The Klezmer Conservatory Band and Kapelye reflect the reverence for the ethnic folk music that sparked the revival and renewed interest in the musical genre. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- 1996
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This documentary offers a fascinating account of the life of one Egypt's most beloved superstars, the singer Umm Kulthum. In her prime, Kulthum was the first singing star to have her work distributed on radio, television, records and films. When she died in 1975, her whole country went into mourning. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 2008
As directed by Michal Goldman, At Home in Utopia charts the history of the little-known UWCC (or United Workers Cooperative Colony - an early bastion of Communism in the United State. The UWCC witnessed the construction of four Bronx apartment houses, planned and organized around socialist principles during that most liberated and freewheeling of decades in America, the 1920s. The buildings witnessed the intersection of numerous social groups, including: Communists, Socialists, secular Jews, African Americans and many others. Goldman re-evokes the time and events via a carefully-selected combination of interviews and archival footage. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
