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So far Nora Lee Mandel has created 319 blog entries.

    The Waldheim Waltz

    How does a president who lies about his past, distorts his country’s history into victimhood, promotes nationalism, and inflames anti-Semitism win an election?

    By |October 24th, 2018|Documentary, Top Picks|0 Comments

      Memoir of War

      Writer Marguerite Duras waits in limbo at the end of World War II.

      By |August 16th, 2018|Top Picks|0 Comments

        BlacKkKlansman

        The absurdity, the humor, and the implications for today are real when a black cop joins the KKK in the 1970s

        By |August 13th, 2018|Book adaptation, Top Picks|1 Comment

          40 Years in the Making: The Magic Music Movie

          Getting that Rocky Mountain high with a reunited Boulder, Colorado band.

          By |July 31st, 2018|Music|0 Comments

            The Captain

            An excoriating portrait of Nazism from the point of view of an imposter.

            By |July 25th, 2018|Top Picks, War|0 Comments

              Puzzle

              Jigsaw puzzles as a vehicle for women’s lib.

              By |July 25th, 2018|Drama|0 Comments

                Bye Bye Germany

                Living in displaced limbo by selling schmattes to hausfraus and recalling jokes made to the SS.

                By |July 22nd, 2018|Book adaptation, DVD/Streaming/On Demand|1 Comment

                  Breath

                  Surfing the Australia coast and adolescent male angst in the 1970s.

                  By |July 22nd, 2018|Book adaptation, DVD/Streaming/On Demand|0 Comments

                    What Will People Say?

                    A Norwegian-Pakistani teenage girl faces brutal tough love.

                    By |July 12th, 2018|Teen|0 Comments