In her follow-up to ‘Hester Street,’ Joan Micklin Silver trained her sights on the world of alternative journalism in Boston.
Nadav Lapid’s “Synonyms’ suggests that Jews should fret less over the length of their manhood and worry instead about the girth of their souls.
The director’s grandmother, a union lawyer, was illegally jailed in 1975 before being exiled until 1984
In her follow-up to ‘Hester Street,’ Joan Micklin Silver trained her sights on the world of alternative journalism in Boston.
Though given short shrift in too much mainstream conversation, imaginative filmmaking continues to thrive, even in this unusually benighted year.
Born Jacob Julius Garfinkel to Russian Jewish parents, John Garfield was at once ahead of the curve and decidedly a creature of his time.
“Marnie” was one of the Hitchcock’s tales of vulnerable beauties psychologically dominated to varying extents by dashing men.
In “Fairfax Avenue,” Janet Leigh plays a diva who is writing her memoirs for the Jewish Daily Forward.
1940s Jews are rounded up alongside brown-skinned refugees, the latter-day French police essentially doing the bidding of yesteryear’s Nazis
“American Dharma” presents the same difficulties as following up a film like “Borat”: once people know your game, it’s harder to punk them.