Joel Silberg

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Joel Silberg
יואל זילברג
Born(1927-03-30)30 March 1927
Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine
Died18 February 2013(2013-02-18) (aged 85)
Tel Aviv, Israel
Other namesYoel Silberg
Joel Zilberg
Occupations
  • Director
  • screenwriter
Years active1949-2013
Children3
ParentBen Zion Silberg

Joel Silberg (Hebrew: יואל זילברג‎; 30 March 1927 – 18 February 2013) was a film, television and stage director and screenwriter in Israel and the United States.[1][2] He made films in Israel including so-called Bourekas films. He then directed films in the U.S. during the 1980s, including Breakin' and Lambada. Both have been described as exploitation films. In 2008 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Israel Film Academy.

Biography

Silberg was born in Palestine in 1927.[3] He was the son of actor Ben Zion Silberg. He began his career directing at London's Old Vic theater. He co-wrote the Israeli musical film Kazablan (1974).

Breakin' was shot in Los Angeles and reflects a different style of break dancing and street dance culture than the Bronx, New York film Beat Street.[4] Roger Ebert gave Breakin' 1 1/2 stars, stating that it was a rather predictable story.[5] The sequel, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo, directed by Sam Firstenberg, was released 7 months later, and was a Cannon Films productions. It received poor critical reception.[6] Later on, the subtitle "Electric Boogaloo" would enter the pop-culture lexicon as a snowclone pejorative nickname to denote an archetypical sequel.[7]

Author Kimberly Monteyne referred to films such as Rappin' as "hip hop-oriented exploitation extravaganzas".[8]

Silberg died on February 18, 2013, in Israel, aged 85.[9]

Filmography

References

  1. ^ "Joel Silberg - TV Guide". TVGuide.com.
  2. ^ "Joel Silberg". www.rottentomatoes.com.
  3. ^ "Joel Silberg".
  4. ^ Metcalf, Josephine; Turner, Will (8 April 2016). Rapper, Writer, Pop-Cultural Player: Ice-T and the Politics of Black Cultural Production. Routledge. ISBN 9781317071501 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ Ebert, Roger. "Breakin' Movie Review & Film Summary (1984) - Roger Ebert". www.rogerebert.com.
  6. ^ Maslin, Janet (1984-12-19). "Screen: 'Breakin' 2'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-12-26.
  7. ^ "Phrasal Patterns 2: Electric Boogaloo". OUPblog. 2007-08-09. Retrieved 2018-12-26.
  8. ^ Monteyne, Kimberley (2013-09-13). Hip Hop on Film: Performance Culture, Urban Space, and Genre Transformation in the 1980s. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781628469035.
  9. ^ הבמאי יואל זילברג הלך לעולמו (in Hebrew)
  10. ^ a b "Overview for Joel Silberg". Turner Classic Movies.