GEORGE ROBINSON

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Gender	Male
Industry	Arts
Occupation	writer and teacher
Location	New York, NY, United States
Introduction	George Robinson is adjunct assistant professor of Media Arts and Technology at Borough of Manhattan Community College, and the and author of the critically acclaimed Essential Judaism: A Complete Guide to Beliefs, Customs and Rituals (Pocket Books, rev. ed. 2016) and Essential Torah: An Introduction to the Five Books of Moses (Schocken Books, 2006). For 26 years, Mr. Robinson was the film and music critic for Jewish Week, the largest Jewish newspaper in North America. He continues to contribute film criticism to several other publications.
Favorite Movies	Favorite? Or most important? Ozu, Bresson, Marker, Leone, Melville, Welles, Rosi, most John Ford (esp. post WWII), Fuller, Lanzmann, Ross McElwee, and on and on and on
Favorite Music	Ellington, Ayler, Basie, Ornette, Zorn, Ravel chamber music, Faure, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Blind Blake, Sun Ra, Tommy Flanagan, Springsteen, Dead Kennedys, Aarvo Part, Harry Partch, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, Wu-Tang Clan, Tupac, David Krakauer, Shlomo Carlebach, Sinatra, Ella
Favorite Books	My desert island books: A complete Shakespeare, Hebrew Bible, Baseball Encyclopedia, but I also couldn't live without Christ Stopped at Eboli, An Orphan in History, Theory of Film Practice, Red Harvest, Proposed Roads to Freedom

Never mind the turtle. Don't you think you're sure to win?

Baby, I was born to run. Or waddle.