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?’”
The Nazi-Era Thriller That Got Its Director Banned From Filmmaking
Everyone from the French communists to the Gestapo decried the film.
From Argentina, Insane Music, Unexpected Harmonies and Marxist Overtones
“Though still largely unfamiliar to American audiences, Argentina has become a fertile ground for contemporary cinema.”
Alex Ross Perry’s Tale Of Quiet Desperation — And People Who Won’t Shut Up
Alex Ross Perry’s “Golden Exits” zeroes in on life in Brooklyn — but is it too Brooklyn-y even for Brooklynites?
