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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