A.J. Goldmann is a writer based between Munich and Berlin. His articles about European and Jewish culture have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Republic, and The Guardian.
A.J. Goldmann
By A.J. Goldmann
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Culture From Israel, an anguished cry of rage, pain and love
Two years after he won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival with his existential and diasporic parable “Synonyms,” Israeli auteur Nadav Lapid traded the marshes of Prussia for the beaches of Southern France, where his latest film, “Ahed’s Knee” picked up the Prix de la Jury at the 74th Cannes Film Festival. Lapid,…
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Culture A newly-animated Anne Frank for today’s Europe
“She’s the greatest spiritual treasure this country has produced since Rembrandt,” a modern-day Dutch policeman explains in Ari Folman’s “Where is Anne Frank,” which recently premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. He’s speaking to a little girl in 1940s clothing who is skating down a frozen canal in Amsterdam and who introduces herself as…
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Culture Chatting with Charlotte Gainsbourg about her mother, Jane Birkin, in Cannes
“When you were about 14 years old, I was dying to see you naked,” Jane Birkin tells her daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg towards the beginning of “Jane par Charlotte,” a documentary about the duo that had its world premiere earlier this week at the Cannes Film Festival. It’s one of the most provocative moments in the…
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Culture In Laszlo Nemes’s ‘Sunset,’ A Labyrinth Of Hungary And Millinery
“Cinema often tries to represent so much in an objective way,” explains Laszlo Nemes, the Oscar-winning director of “Son of Saul.” “But I really like the limitations you find on the other side of the spectrum and what it can convey about human experience: how little you can actually see.” Three years after Nemes stunned…
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Culture Disgraced German Reporter Fabricated Details In Nazi Resistance Interview
It was one of Claas Relotius’s most widely praised pieces, an interview with 99-year-old Traute Lafrenz, the last surviving member of the famous Weisse Rose (White Rose) Nazi resistance group. But when an investigation found that Relotius, 33, a star reporter at Der Spiegel, one of Germany’s leading news magazines, had a very lax understanding…
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Film & TV From An Exiled Filmmaker, A Rock ‘N’ Roll Parable
“I’ve lived for eight months as if on the other side of the mirror,” an exasperated Kirill Serebrennikov told a judge in Moscow on April 18 of this year. It was the Russian-Jewish director’s most recent day in court since being placed under house arrest last August on corruption charges that are widely considered to…
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Culture In Praise of ‘Dovlatov,’ The Writer And The Film
“The Zionists have lost all sense of decency, and Golda Meir is a war hawk.” The tall and darkly handsome writer riding the bus turns slightly toward the stony-faced man, whose observation was clearly directed to him. The writer decides to ignore his comment, until the other man repeats it, more loudly than before. The…
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Culture When Blacks and Jews Joined Forces To Defeat The KKK
“I hate ni—ers, Jews, Mexicans, spics, chinks, and anyone else that does not have pure white Aryan blood in their veins,” the African-American actor John David Washington (son of Denzel) barks into the telephone receiver, leaning back in his office chair during a key scene in Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman,” which recently won the Grand Prix,…
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