The best Jewish (and Jew-ish) movies of 2022
The year's best Jewish films engaged with the complicated legacy of Jewish storytelling
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Film & TV How a professor of Hitler studies got Spielberged when the unfilmable was filmed
Noah Baumbach's adaptation of 'White Noise' is in thrall to Gen-X pop culture
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Film & TV ‘We enjoy being in shul together’: Tony Kushner talks about his friendship with Steven Spielberg
Why Kushner was the perfect screenwriter for Spielberg's 'Fabelmans'
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Film & TV In ‘Armageddon Time’ and ‘The Fabelmans,’ tales of two Jewish childhoods. But are the movies Jewish?
Steven Spielberg and James Gray’s semi-autobiographical films are loaded with Jewish content, but lack a Jewish sensibility
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Film & TV Steven Spielberg’s long ride down memory lane is a Jewish boy’s dream movie — literally
The 'Fabelmans' is mesmerizing — before it goes off the rails
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Fast Forward At ‘The Fabelmans’ premiere, Steven Spielberg discusses how his Jewish identity is portrayed in the autobiographical film
“I like very much the sort of easy way that Jewishness lives in this movie,” co-writer Tony Kushner said. “It’s a very profound part of Steven’s identity, and of the Fablemans’ identity.”
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125 greatest Jewish movie scenes Redeeming the girl in the red coat
The 'Schindler's List' scene has been accused of 'kitsch.' That's why it's so effective.
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Culture 2022’s Oscar nominees are full of Jewish connections
This week’s parsha concerns God’s instructions to the Israelites in the wilderness on the design of priestly temple garments, how to properly light the menorah and how to build the golden altar of incense. So perhaps it’s fitting that the Moses-y desert parable “Dune” is now nominated for the Oscar gold in costume design, cinematography…
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