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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 470

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Filmmaker Leslie Gelrubin Benitah sees the devastation wrought on Kibbutz Be'eri during the Hamas assault of October 7, 2023, in this still from 'Milk and Honey, Blood and Tears.' (Courtesy)
January 9, 2025, 2:51 am
Some Jewish film festivals tiptoe around Oct. 7. A Miami festival is leaning into it
Running from Jan. 9-23, the Miami Jewish Film Festival features 13 films dealing with the Hamas atrocities, to help combat denial of the tragedy and make victims’ voices heard
By Rich Tenorio
Keffiyeh-clad individuals slash and rip down posters of October 7 hostages hung in New York, as seen in Nim Shapira's film 'TORN: The Israel-Palestine Poster War on NYC Streets.' (Courtesy)
January 7, 2025, 3:55 am
How posters of Hamas hostages became targets in the war for public opinion in NY
Documentary film ‘TORN’ examines the emotional toll and legal aspects of anti-Israel activists’ oft-violent ripping down and destroying of ‘KIDNAPPED’ notices
By Renee Ghert-Zand
This image released by Searchlight Pictures shows Timothée Chalamet in a scene from "A Complete Unknown." (Macall Polay/Searchlight Pictures via AP)
December 26, 2024, 5:56 am
Bob Dylan biopic ‘A Complete Unknown’ is electric in more ways than one
In theaters Friday, film starring Timothée Chalamet is utterly fascinating, captures a moment in time when songs had weight, when they could move the culture
By Mark Kennedy
Hillel Kornwasser in his room in Teaneck, New Jersey, filming an opening scene for his documentary, 'Forces of Resilience.' (Courtesy)
December 19, 2024, 9:29 pm
A 14-year-old flew to Israel to film a documentary about Oct. 7. It premieres on Sunday
Teaneck, NJ, teen Hillel Kornwasser found magnitude of Hamas atrocities so incomprehensible that he created the film ‘Forces of Resilience’ to process them
By Cathryn J. Prince
Adrien Brody in 'The Brutalist.' (Lol Crowley/A24)
December 18, 2024, 2:01 am
Starring Adrien Brody, ‘The Brutalist’ is based on postwar Jewish architects in the US
László Tóth, a fictional Hungarian Jewish architect who moves to America, is a composite of real-life characters whose struggles are propelling the new film to critical acclaim
By Andrew Lapin
Sean Penn, John Ira Palmer, John Wildermuth, Tim Fehlbaum, and Jake Kasdan speak onstage during a CAA Screening and Filmmaker Q&A of "September 5" in Los Angeles at Creative Artists Agency on December 08, 2024, in Los Angeles, California. (Phillip Faraone / Getty Images via AFP)
December 14, 2024, 2:27 pm
‘September 5’ focuses on news, not Jews, in dramatizing 1972 Munich attack
New film about massacre of Israeli athletes at Olympic Games offers different perspective than Spielberg’s ‘Munich,’ concentrates on media coverage of globally live-streamed attack
By Stephen Silver
'Pollice Verso (Thumbs Down),' by painter Jean-Léon Gérôme. (Public domain via JTA)
December 1, 2024, 2:04 am
There are no Jewish fighters in ‘Gladiator II.’ But what about in ancient Rome?
‘It’s pretty clear from Josephus and from the archaeology’ that gladiators fought in Caesarea, says NYU professor; Israeli actors Lior Raz and Yuval Gonen among modern-day cast
By Luke Tress
Moses Michael Levi Barrow, who rapped under the stage name 'Shyne,' prays at the Western Wall in a Jerusalem in a scene from the new documentary, 'The Honorable Shyne.' (Andscape via JTA)
November 22, 2024, 4:44 pm
‘Honorable Shyne’ documents Jewish rapper’s beef with Diddy, new life in Belize politics
New Hulu documentary sheds light on Moses Michael Levi Barrow’s jail time, sojourn in Israel, and his rebirth as the opposition leader in his native country
By Stephen Silver
Géza Röhrig in 'After' (Lumen Productions)
November 8, 2024, 5:30 am
In striking art film, contemporary poets respond to the horrors of the Holocaust
Screening in New York and Los Angeles, genre-defying film about how poetic language can heal trauma points to how Israelis and Jews could use it to cope in Oct. 7 aftermath
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Zack Weiner’s 2021 campaign to represent the Upper West Side was fodder for his new film, 'Citizen Weiner.' (Courtesy Zack Weiner via JTA)
November 6, 2024, 8:53 pm
This Jewish actor made a ‘reality film’ about his not-quite real campaign for NYC Council
In mockumentary ‘Citizen Weiner,’ young filmmaker Zack Weiner actually runs for office, campaigning on issues close to his heart – and experiencing the consequences of public life
By Joseph Strauss
David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji Kaplan (Kieran Culkin) take a train to Majdanek while on a tour of Poland in 'A Real Pain.' (Courtesy Searchlight Pictures via JTA)
November 6, 2024, 2:51 am
In ‘A Real Pain,’ Jesse Eisenberg connects on- and offscreen with his ancestors’ Poland
Now in theaters, the latest film from the Jewish writer, director and actor features a semi-autobiographical heritage tour full of pathos, banter and fast-paced humor
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Igal Hecht at the 'car graveyard' during filming of 'The Killing Roads' in March 2024. (Courtesy of Chutzpah Productions)
October 5, 2024, 9:45 am
In ‘The Killing Roads,’ filmmaker Igal Hecht confronts the visceral pain of Oct. 7
The powerful new documentary, its release set to coincide with the massacre’s anniversary, focuses on the Hamas slaughter on the south’s main arteries. To combat deniers, it is available for free
By Robert Sarner
From 'Legend of Destruction,' Gidi Dar's 2021 film about the Jewish revolt against the Romans in 70 CE. (Courtesy: David Polonsky and Michael Faust)
August 11, 2024, 4:25 pm
2021 film about the destruction of the Second Temple finds new resonance after Oct. 7
Gidi Dar’s ‘Legend of Destruction’ was acclaimed in Israel because it reflected social and political divides in 21st-century Jerusalem; now an English version speaks to US Jews
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Co-host Jamie Geller interviews Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Noam Tibon for the documentary 'October 7th: Voices of Pain, Hope and Heroism.' (Courtesy: Aish)
August 9, 2024, 1:27 am
New documentary highlights the tragedy and resilience of families affected by Oct. 7
‘October 7th: Voices of Pain, Hope and Heroism’ contains never-before-seen footage of the massacre; will be released by Aish on Tisha B’Av, the Jewish day of mourning, next week
By Ethan Freedman
June Squibb, left and Fred Hechinger star in 'Thelma,' opening the 41st Jerusalem Film Festival on July 18, 2024 (Credit David Bolen)
July 7, 2024, 8:44 pm
Jerusalem Film Festival to open with comic ‘Thelma’
The annual summer film event announces international offerings, including Josh Margolin’s feel-good flick about his wily grandmother
By Jessica Steinberg
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