In Nadav Lapid’s New Film, ‘Synonyms’ For Jewish Self-Hatred
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.
A Young Argentine-Jewish Filmmaker Takes On His Country’s Authoritarian Past
The director’s grandmother, a union lawyer, was illegally jailed in 1975 before being exiled until 1984
When New Journalism And The New Hollywood Both Died In Darkness
In her follow-up to ‘Hester Street,’ Joan Micklin Silver trained her sights on the world of alternative journalism in Boston.
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.