The Jewish Films You Might Have Missed In 2018
Though given short shrift in too much mainstream conversation, imaginative filmmaking continues to thrive, even in this unusually benighted year.
Chronicles Of John Garfield’s Death Foretold In His Final Film
Born Jacob Julius Garfinkel to Russian Jewish parents, John Garfield was at once ahead of the curve and decidedly a creature of his time.
At The Met, A Kleptomaniac To Dye For
“Marnie” was one of the Hitchcock’s tales of vulnerable beauties psychologically dominated to varying extents by dashing men.
Could Jerry Lewis Have Become The Jewish Andy Warhol?
In “Fairfax Avenue,” Janet Leigh plays a diva who is writing her memoirs for the Jewish Daily Forward.
An Exile In Marseilles But Out Of Time
1940s Jews are rounded up alongside brown-skinned refugees, the latter-day French police essentially doing the bidding of yesteryear’s Nazis
Steve Bannon Gets The Best Of Errol Morris
“American Dharma” presents the same difficulties as following up a film like “Borat”: once people know your game, it’s harder to punk them.
This Was The End Of Francois Truffaut’s Innocence
A filmmaker who discovered his Jewish ancestry only in adulthood, Truffaut here recalls Primo Levi.
A Love Letter To Max Blecher, Scars And All
According to his admirers, Blecher was a hidden genius of modernist literature, another lost Kafka scattered in the wreckage of 20th century Europe.
Who Was That Masked Man In ‘Eyes Wide Shut?’
“I think if you would say one thing about Stanley’s Jewishness, it was that it was entirely secular.”
For Olivier Assayas, The Past Is Always Present
“I was like, ‘What do you mean? Am I Jewish? What does that mean? Why didn’t you say that before?’”
