{"id":30700,"date":"2014-02-17T19:45:15","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T03:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=30700"},"modified":"2014-02-17T20:47:39","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T04:47:39","slug":"when-jews-were-funny-alan-zweig-2013-usa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=30700","title":{"rendered":"When Jews were funny (Alan Zweig, 2013): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Jacob Wirsenius, viewed at the Santa Barbara international film festival.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob, what did you think about the documentary &#8220;When Jews were funny&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>-I liked it, lots of laughs and interesting interviews.<\/p>\n<p>What did you like about it?<\/p>\n<p>-I loved the honesty and it was great learning a little bit more about Jews and their history and culture.<\/p>\n<p>Could you describe, briefly, what the documentary is about?<\/p>\n<p>-It&#8217;s about Jews and how the &#8220;old&#8221; Jews are gone. Alan is interviewing a bunch of Jewish comedians and they talk about how Jews behave and the industry of Jewish comedians.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any thoughts about the editing, setting etc?<\/p>\n<p>-Yeah, I think the editing looked really professional and they used it smart to create a good tone in the film. Cool backgrounds behind the talking heads and the old clips of comedians made it feel really authentic and serious.<\/p>\n<p>Would you recommend this documentary?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I would recommend it because the subject is interesting, it&#8217;s really funny and the interviewing objects are great characters.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your time Jacob.<\/p>\n<p>-Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Jacob Wirsenius, viewed at the Santa Barbara international film festival. Jacob, what did you think about the documentary &#8220;When Jews were funny&#8221;? -I liked it, lots of laughs and interesting interviews. What did you like about it? -I loved the honesty and it was great learning a little bit more about Jews and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3752,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3752"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}