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Andre, played by Alex Lutz, in a still from 'Auction.' (Courtesy)
November 1, 2025, 7:10 am
French film ‘Auction’ revisits thrilling tussle over real-life Nazi-looted masterpiece
In US theaters Oct. 29, Jewish director Pascal Bonitzer’s latest feature centers on a $21 million painting by Egon Schiele that went missing in WWII and turned up on a small town wall
By Rich Tenorio
French actress Catherine Deneuve looks on during the 50th edition of the Cesar Film Awards ceremony at the Olympia venue in Paris, France, February 28, 2025. (Bertrand Guay / AFP)
May 23, 2025, 8:35 pm
More actors, filmmakers join petition accusing Israel of ‘genocide’
Catherine Deneuve, Julian Assange among latest of 900 signatories to letter sparked by IDF killing of Gazan photojournalist featured at Cannes; IDF said it targeted Hamas operative
By AFP and ToI Staff
James Earl Jones accepts the special Tony award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre at the 71st annual Tony Awards, June 11, 2017, in New York. (Michael Zorn/Invision/AP, File)
September 10, 2024, 8:53 am
Award-winning actor James Earl Jones, voice of Darth Vader, Mufasa, dies at 93
Jones won two Emmys, a Golden Globe, two Tony Awards, a Grammy, the National Medal of Arts and the Kennedy Center Honors as well as an honorary Oscar
By Mark Kennedy
American writer, director and actress Lena Dunham, left, and British actor and comedian Stephen Fry pose for photographers at the premiere for the film 'Treasure' during the International Film Festival, Berlinale, in Berlin Saturday, February 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
February 20, 2024, 8:31 pm
In ‘Treasure,’ Lena Dunham, Stephen Fry connect with Jewish heritage
Based on book ‘Too Many Men,’ dramedy depicting American daughter taking Polish Holocaust survivor father on road trip through post-communist Poland debuts at Berlin Film Festival
By LOUISE DIXON
Actor Brad Pitt, left, and director Quentin Tarantino pose for photographers at the photo call for the film 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' at the 72nd international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 22, 2019. (Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)
February 3, 2024, 1:19 pm
Tarantino reunites with Brad Pitt for director’s final film – report
Actor to star in movie about 1970’s ‘porno rag’ film critic, which the award-winning filmmaker, who lives part of the year in Tel Aviv, says will be his last
By ToI Staff
Palestinian children watch a movie at a pop-up open-air cinema at the beach in Gaza City on July 28, 2023; there are no movie theaters in the Gaza Strip. (Photo by Mohammed ABED / AFP)
August 3, 2023, 2:25 pm
Closely monitored by Hamas, open-air cinema offers Gazans a rare trip to the movies
2-week beach festival screens 15 films, including local Palestinian flicks and controversial movie ‘Farha’; Strip does not have permanent cinemas due to Islamist doctrine
By Agencies and ToI Staff
The exterior of the Lev Smadar movie theater in Jerusalem's German Colony, which is threatening to close after 95 years of operation (Courtesy Jerusalem Film Fund)
July 28, 2023, 10:07 am
Doors may close on German Colony’s 95-year cinema Lev Smadar
Jerusalem neighborhood movie theater that opened in the 1920s has battled rental contracts, neighbors and renovations
By Jessica Steinberg
Jonah Hill, left, and Lauren London in a scene from 'You People.' (Courtesy: Netflix)
January 26, 2023, 11:15 am
Star-crossed lovers tackle Black-white, Jewish-Muslim divides in ‘You People’
Netflix film starring Jonah Hill and Lauren London is a rom-com with teeth that doesn’t shy away from airing long-simmering cultural grievances
By Mark Kennedy
Peter Reigert and Amy Irving in 'Crossing Delancey.' (Courtesy)
January 15, 2023, 12:27 am
This month: A ‘Jewish Experience’ film series on TCM
Every Thursday night in January the channel airs movies from the ’30s through the ’90s showing how filmmakers deal with themes like the Holocaust, assimilation and religious life
By Linda Buchwald
In this Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011 file photo, Belgian director Chantal Akerman poses during the photo call for the movie La folie Almayer at the 68th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy. (AP/Jonathan Short)
December 4, 2022, 6:33 am
Film by Jewish director Chantal Akerman rated best of all time in major survey
1975 masterpiece ‘Jeanne Dielman’ takes top honors in highly respected Sight and Sound poll, supplanting Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’ and Welles’s ‘Citizen Kane’ for first time
By ToI Staff
Israeli filmmaker and jury chair Nadav Lapid, third left, being honored by Indian ministers at the closing ceremony of the International Film Festival of India in Goa, India, Nov.28, 2022. (Press Information Bureau via AP)
November 29, 2022, 3:14 pm
Israeli ambassador slams Israeli filmmaker for comments at Indian film festival
Envoy Naor Gilon says Nadav Lapid should ‘be ashamed’ for ‘abusing Indian hospitality,’ being insensitive to Hindus after filmmaker calls ‘The Kashmir Files’ ‘vulgar propaganda’
By Tobias Siegal and AP
In this file photo taken on May 18, 2004 Franco-Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard attends a press conference for his film "Notre Music" during the 57th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes. (BORIS HORVAT / AFP)
September 14, 2022, 2:26 am
A trailblazing filmmaker, Jean-Luc Godard was a polarizing figure to Jews offscreen
The French New Wave pioneer who died Tuesday long faced accusations of antisemitism, but while his opposition to Zionism was clear, his views on the Jewish people were more complex
By Andrew Lapin
Illustrative: Cineworld movie theater in London, October 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
June 8, 2022, 6:02 pm
Israeli-owned chain halts UK screenings of film about Prophet Muhammad’s daughter
Protesters rally outside Bolton and Birmingham locations of Cineworld after its June 3 showing prompts safety concerns, harsh criticism from Islamic organizations
By ToI Staff
US DJ, model, and YouTube personality Chantel Taleen Jeffries, poses on the red carpet of the first edition of the Red Sea Film Festival edition of the Red Sea film festival in the Saudi city of Jeddah, on December 6, 2021. (PATRICK BAZ / Red Sea Film Festival)
December 7, 2021, 10:02 am
After ending cinema ban, Saudis roll out red carpet for 1st film festival
Local, Arab, foreign actors and actresses parade in evening wear at Jeddah Red Sea International Film Festival
By Rania Sanjar
Moviegoers sitting in a socially distant seating arrangement at the AMC Lincoln Square 13 theater on the first day of reopened theaters after being closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, March 5, 2021, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
March 6, 2021, 8:20 am
New York cinemas reopen after a year, brightening outlook for theaters
Doors open in one of the world’s foremost movie capitals; for some moviegoers who consider the big screen the only way to see a film, the day has almost religious significance
By jack coyle
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