Babylon Revisited: 'Judy Berlin' and life and longing on Long Island. From: The New York Jewish Week | Date: February 25, 2000| Author: | Copyright The Jewish Week Feb 25, 2000. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Babylon Revisited: `Judy Berlin' and life and longing on Long Island.

GOLDIE CHARLES

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Over a year after writer-director Eric Mendelsohn's debut feature "Judy Berlin" earned him the Best Director award at the Sundance Film Festival, and nearly a year since it was accorded the coveted opening-night slot at the New Directors/New Films Festival (presented by The Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art), this funny, sad, tender and pleasingly unsentimental ode to the quotidian and quixotic in the days of our lives is getting the theatrical release it ...

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