PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at [email protected] and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
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Culture Serial Season 3 Will Follow Cases In Cleveland Criminal Court
Serial” first gripped listeners in 2014 (and Kim Kardashian as recently as last month) with the case of Adnan Syed, a young man convicted of murdering his high school girlfriend. The podcast’s second season, which had more mixed reviews, centered on Bowe Bergdahl, an army sergeant kidnapped by the Taliban. Now, the hit show has…
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Film & TV Meet David Fantle, Interviewer To The Golden Age Stars
40 years ago David Fantle and his writing partner, Tom Johnson, saved up enough money from their summer jobs to fly to Los Angeles for interviews with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. They were 18-years-old Minnesotans with no credentials other than chutzpah and a love for Golden Age cinema. They had never done anything like…
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Culture NBC Orders “Law & Order: Hate Crimes”
For all its successes, there are a couple “Law & Order” variations that have died on the vine. Who could forget — or rather, who can remember — the single season clunkers “Law & Order: LA” and “Law & Order: Trial By Jury?” Now, Variety reports, a new riff on the old procedural formula is…
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Culture 7 Questions For Yuval Noah Harari
Yuval Noah Harari is concerned about our bad decisions. Whereas the Oxford-educated Israeli historian and academic’s past work examined the far-flung past and the way-off future, his third book, “21 Lessons for the 21st Century” (Spiegel & Grau), brings his insights to the here-and-now into a call to action. Harari believes that unless we heed…
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Culture Put Aside The Politics In ‘Operation Finale’ — Is It Any Good As A Film?
In “Eichmann in Jerusalem,” Hannah Arendt famously coined the phrase “the banality of evil.” During his 1961 trial in Israel, Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Nazi’s Final Solution, presented himself as a bureaucrat, a man who had just followed orders. “Operation Finale,” Chris Weitz’s limp dramatization of Eichmann’s 1960 abduction by the Mossad in…
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Film & TV ‘Schindler’s List’ Will Return To Theaters This December
This December, Universal Pictures will re-release “Schindler’s List” on the occasion of the Oscar-winning film’s 25th anniversary. As Slate reports, the Holocaust drama that earned Steven Spielberg his first Academy Award for Best Director will return to theaters on December 7. The film, about the German industrialist Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson, who was nominated for…
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Culture Orson Welles’s Last Movie Will Finally Debut, Decades After His Death — And Here’s The Trailer
The cinematic powers that be have blessed us: Behold the first trailer for a new Orson Welles film. You read that right. Though the auteur behind “Citizen Kane” has been dead for over three decades, a troupe of strivers, among them the film’s co-star Peter Bogdanovich — himself a celebrated director — have managed to…
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Culture The Venice International Film Festival Opens Tonight. Here’s What To Expect.
The Venice International Film Festival starts today and runs through September 8. And of course, Jewish directors are bringing their A-game. In competition for the famous Golden Lion award are three pictures by already-celebrated Jewish auteurs. Joel and Ethan Coen are presenting “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” a Netflix-produced Western anthology starring Tim Blake Nelson…
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