CLIP
SELECTED
SCREENINGS
International Yiddish Theatre Festival of Montreal (2009)
Edgar G. Ulmer Retrospective, Filmhouse Cinema, UK (2009)
Cape Town/
Johannesburg Yiddish Film Festival (2008)
Miami Jewish
Film Festival (2006)
Phoenix
Jewish Film Festival (2005)
UC Berkeley
Art Museum, Berkeley California (2005)
Montreal
Jewish Film Festival (2005)
Vancouver
Jewish Film Festival (2005)
San Francisco
Jewish Film Festival (2005)
Museum
of Jewish Heritage, New York (2004)
British
Film Institution (2004)
Musee d’Art
de Histoire de Judaisme, Paris (2002)
Haifa Jewish
Film Festival (2005)
Brooklyn
Jewish Film Festival (2002)
RESTORED 35MM PRINT WITH COMPLETE NEW SUBTITLES
Leo
Fuchs, known on Second Avenue as “the Yiddish Fred Astaire,”
plays an elegant and eligible bachelor who can never seem to close the
marriage deal. Edgar G. Ulmer’s last Yiddish movie was also his
most modern, an art deco romantic comedy about male ambivalence and Jewish
assimilation. With its urbane, neurotic hero, American
Matchmaker looks ahead to the films of Woody Allen.
DVD
includes bonus short I
Want to Be A Boarder starring
Fuchs comically paired with Yetta Zwerling, directed by Joseph Seiden.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
“As
in the best Yiddish theater traditions, there is a successful combination
of humor and schmaltz with the sentimentality at the end well-earned by
the comic insights along the way... None is more charming than American
Matchmaker. The title says it all – a clash
between the urbane, slick manners of the new country and the old, busybody
communal ways of the shtetl.”
– Films, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1983
CREDITS
Directed
by Edgar G. Ulmer
Screenplay
by S. Castle
Music
and Lyrics by Sam Morgenstern, William Mercur
Starring
Leo Fuchs, Judith Abarbanel, Judel Dubinksy, Anna Guskin, Celia Bodkin,
Abraham Lax
PURCHASE DVD
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Matchmaker with I Want to Be a Boarder
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American
Matchmaker with I Want to Be a Boarder
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