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Editor’s Note: Paul Newman would have celebrated his 97th birthday today. To commemorate that date, we’re taking another look at this essay about the Anton Chekhov film he directed on the stage of a Yiddish theater. Paul Newman directed a pioneering, independent film shot at a Yiddish theater on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, and you’ve…
Editor’s Note: Paul Newman would have celebrated his 96th birthday today. To commemorate that date, we’re taking another look at this essay about the Anton Chekhov film he directed on the stage of a Yiddish theater. Paul Newman directed a pioneering, independent film shot at a Yiddish theater on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, and you’ve…
Editor’s Note: Allan M. Jalon’s story on the rediscovery of Paul Newman’s film “On The Harmfulness Of Tobacco” has been named a finalist for the Deadline Club Awards in the category of arts reporting. You can read the entire story here. Paul Newman directed a pioneering, independent film shot at a Yiddish theater on Manhattan’s…
Paul Newman’s long-lost film “On The Harmfulness Of Tobacco,” will be shown for the first time in 55 years on February 20. The subject of an extensive and exclusive story in the Forward last November, it will screen at the Film Society of Lincoln Center as part of its “Newman Directs” program. The Lincoln Center…
Paul Newman directed a pioneering, independent film shot at a Yiddish theater on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, and you’ve probably never heard of it, much less had a chance to see it. It was never released beyond a short run, in 1962, for an Oscar nomination that it never got. Newman’s biographers apparently have never…
