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Chantal Akerman's 'Jeanne Dielman' was recently enshrined by the BFI 'Sight and Sound' poll. Rightly so.
Chantal Akerman's 'Jeanne Dielman' was recently enshrined by the BFI 'Sight and Sound' poll. Rightly so.
Frederick Wiseman's 'A Couple' depicts Leo and Sophia Tolstoy in perpetual crisis
A retrospective for the filmmaker’s 100th birthday finds a mixed, but compelling, bag of Jewish content
The fate of Éric Zemmour has surprising parallels to the films of the French New Wave
François Ozon’s “Summer of 85,” which hit the Jewish film festival circuit earlier this year, seems like a coup for any lineup: a sumptuous period piece that competed at Cannes and isn’t about the Holocaust should be opening night material. But what makes it Jewish? The film, which comes to cinemas in New York and…
Film Still Courtesy of Music Box Films The bold French movie “The Conquest” is a rarity — a feature film with the guts to criticize the sitting head of government of its own country. Britain’s “The Queen” dared critique both Prime Minister Tony Blair and Queen Elizabeth II in 2006 while both were still in…
On April 27, at New York’s French Institute/Alliance Française, the noted French Jewish film director and producer Véra Belmont will introduce one of her films as the culmination of a three-week festival in her honor, running from April 6 to 27. At 77, Belmont has just published with Les Éditions Stock in Paris a touching…
At 76, Rabbi Josy Eisenberg is a longtime representative of Judaism for the French public. He is the genial host of the half-hour religious program “La Source de Vie,” broadcast in various formats since 1962, and he helped write the 1973 hit comedy film “The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob,” starring comedian Louis de Funès….
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