![]() ![]() It would be misleading to suggest this is a soccer movie, however, because it's really about bar mitzvahs, preteen angst and a neurotic - but lovable - Jewish family. Not a ho-hum date, 1966 is the year England won its first and only World Cup soccer title. The movie's title refers to the year it takes place, 1966, in England. The touchy-funny mix starts with tonight's opening film, "Sixty Six." You will likely hear laughter - plus sniffles, sobs and plenty of other sounds that cover the emotional spectrum - throughout the Subhed:Bar mitzvah mishaps The fifth annual festival, featuring four full-length films and three shorts, takes place today through Sunday in Ventura at the Regency Buenaventura 6 theater and Temple Beth Torah. Picon and five fellow Jewish funny ladies - Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, Joan Rivers, Gilda Radner and Wendy Wasserstein - are profiled in the documentary "Making Trouble," screening Sunday morning at the Ventura County Jewish Film Festival. "And I don't want her to grow up without hearing people laugh."įor the rest of her career, Picon's sole purpose was to make audiences laugh.Īnd she did, along with other pioneering Jewish women who've followed in her comic footsteps. "My child has never heard the sound of laughter," the mother told Picon. ![]() Picon later recalled a grateful parent's response to a postwar show for 3,000 children. Some people never got to have a first laugh, let alone a last laugh.Īfter World War II, American Yiddish film and theater actress Molly Picon entertained former prisoners at concentration camps in Poland. For more information, call 647-4181 or visit. and "Noodle" (in Hebrew with English subtitles) and the short film "The Red Toy," 7 p.m. April 6 at Temple Beth Torah, 7620 Foothill Blvd. Saturday at the Regency "Making Trouble" with guest speaker Wendy Kamenoff and lunch served after the program, 10 a.m. "Love and Dance" (in Hebrew with English subtitles) and the short film "Pigeon," 7:30 p.m. today at the Regency Buenaventura 6 theater, 1440 Eastman Ave. The fifth annual festival will feature screenings of four feature-length films (all rated PG-13) and three shorts today through Sunday in Ventura: "Sixty Six," with guest speaker Ivor Davis and the short film "A Trip to Prague," 7 p.m. ![]()
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