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This is the Forward’s coverage of Jewish cinema, from Kubrick to Spielberg.

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‘Megalopolis’ is an aesthetically brilliant, morally bankrupt film that traffics in homophobic and antisemitic clichés

Francis Ford Coppola's Ayn Randian 'fable' ignores the real crises affecting America

By Jay Michaelson Oct 1, 2024 | 4 min read
Culture
In ‘The Brutalist,’ Adrien Brody wills an impossible dream

Brady Corbet’s epic follows a Holocaust survivor struggling to seize the American Dream

By PJ Grisar Sep 20, 2024 | 4 min read
Culture
‘The Day the Clown Cried’ was the film that ‘broke’ Jerry Lewis — did it have to happen that way?

A new documentary about the film sheds light on a doomed production

By Olivia Haynie Sep 12, 2024 | 3 min read
Culture
How James Earl Jones became a true friend of Jewish artists and the Jewish people

The legendary actor worked with such luminaries as Stanley Kubrick and Joe Papp

By Benjamin Ivry Sep 10, 2024 | 4 min read
Film & TV
He was guilty of armed robbery, but was the murder case against him antisemitic?

An intriguing new film revisits the criminal trial of Pierre Goldman

By Simi Horwitz Sep 6, 2024 | 4 min read
Culture
Is every war movie about Israel and Gaza now?

People are finding parallels to the war in, well, everything

By Mira Fox Aug 26, 2024 | 4 min read
Film & TV
In one of the most specifically Jewish movies ever made, love triumphs over loneliness

'Between the Temples,' starring Carol Kane and Jason Schwartzman, is an indie Chelm story and a mumblecore midrash

By Jenny Singer Aug 23, 2024 | 5 min read
Film & TV
Carol Kane, Robert Smigel and Nathan Silver on how ‘Between the Temples’ is an ode to Jewish questioning and lifelong learning

The new comedy is about a cantor and his adult bat mitzvah student

By PJ Grisar Aug 22, 2024 | 5 min read

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