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Welcome to Kutsher’s

By Shana Goldberg & Andrea Jacobs documentary 10 years in the making, “Welcome to Kutsher’s” tells the story of a once-booming Borscht Belt hotel that had fallen on hard times. The film is written like an obituary, but missing the painful, obligatory sentence: Kutsher’s is no longer. That’s reserved for the film’s final segment. But what at times seems chronologically confusing, ultimately makes a perfectly composed elegy. IJN Assistant Publisher Shana R. Goldberg and Senior Writer Andrea Jacobs share their dialogue of “Welcome to Kutsher’s.” SRG: We should riff about your theme of an obituary. AJ: That’s how this documentary resonated with me. I frequently didn’t know what was happening. In an obit, you begin with the sentence, “Mr. Smith died on such-and-such a day.” When […]
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