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Finally, another installment of STEREOtype! This week I got to chat with filmmaker Boaz Yakin. You may know him as the guy who directed Remember the Titans and A Price Above Rubies, but he’s back with something a bit different: the controversial Death in Love. It is Boaz’s newest film, starring Josh Lucas, and focuses on the relationship between an unnamed mother and her sons. The mother is a holocaust survivor, and scenes of her love affair with a Nazi doctor are intercut with scenes from her present-day life. In the face of such a serious subject, I’m pretty sure Boaz was happy to answer questions of a lighter and sillier sort. I mean, the man also wrote the upcoming Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and directed the Brittany Murphy vehicle Uptown Girls. I am pretty sure he has a great sense of humor. Onwards:

How many times a week do you speak to your mother?
Depends on the week.

Your nose. Friend or foe?
If by friend you mean relatively small, straight, and non-semitic in bone structure, the nose I possess, its shape probably determined by a genetic imprinting introduced into the family bloodstream by some Goyish rapist, either welcome or unwelcome, is, I suppose, my friend. If does however serve as a conduit to particles which activate allergies which I associate with the Ashkenazic side of my heritage with a kind of deep seated Jewish self-hatred that goes far deeper than any that could be caused by an extra millimeter or so of length added to my nose bone, and as such is, I feel, my enemy.
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I am very excited to let the world know that DEATH IN LOVE, the latest film by Boaz Yakin, director of A Price Above Rubies, Fresh and Remember the Titans, is coming out tonight—and it features a song by The Sway Machinery!

Death in Love, is about a holocaust survivor and her relationship with her adult sons. I would say it’s one of the most harrowing depicitions of the psychological warfare between Jewish mothers and sons that I have ever seen. Be prepared, this is not a pious treatment of the Survivor story. I am certain the film will ruffle a lot of feathers, which is definitely a good thing!

In addition to The Sway Machinery, the sound track also features music by Beirut.

I’ve always been a fan of Boaz’s work, and I am really thrilled to have been involved with this project. Death in Love is premiering TONIGHT in NYC at Quad Cinema (34 W 13th Street) on July 17th. Please make your way to the theater to support this awesome work!