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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 346

Jewish filmmakers

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
An undated photo of filmmaker Luca Barbareschi. (Federica Di Benedetto e Marco Bellucci)
September 9, 2023, 2:05 am
Filmmaker Luca Barbareschi has two films premiering at Venice — and a bone to pick
The Jewish-Uruguayan-Italian actor, director, producer and former parliamentarian expounds on cancel culture, his Judaism, and why he feels Roman Polanski isn’t getting his due
By Amy K. Rosenthal
An Oscars statue outside the Dolby Theatre for the 87th Academy Awards in Los Angeles on February 21, 2015. (Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, File)
August 18, 2023, 5:36 am
Academy of Motion Pictures mum on how Jews fit into new inclusion standards
Rules taking effect for next year’s Best Picture award aim to encourage diversity in film industry, raising questions and criticism
By Luke Tress
A still from 'Concerned Citizen.' (Courtesy of the Israel Film Center Festival)
June 16, 2023, 12:16 am
Grab your rugelach and check out this year’s must-watch Israeli films
From June 1-8, NYC’s Israel Film Center Festival presented a selection of films that rivals Cannes or Sundance – but here you ran the chance of bumping into your Hebrew teacher
By Jordan Hoffman
British director Jonathan Glazer poses during a photocall for the film "The Zone Of Interest" at the 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 20, 2023. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP)
May 28, 2023, 4:21 am
Jonathan Glazer, Cannes-winning British Jewish movie director
As 58-year-old takes runner-up prize for unusual Holocaust drama ‘The Zone of Interest,’ a look at the mere handful of films he’s released over a 20-year career
By AFP
Jeremy Dauber is the author of 'Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew.' (Yale University Press via JTA)
March 8, 2023, 1:57 am
A history of Mel Brooks as a ‘disobedient Jew’
In new biography, Jeremy Dauber breaks down how the comedian and director just couldn’t help being a loving iconoclast skewering the establishment
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Walter Mirisch, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at the organization's headquarters in Beverly Hills on September 16, 1975. (AP Photo/George Brich)
February 26, 2023, 11:55 pm
Walter Mirisch, Oscar-winning filmmaker who produced ‘West Side Story,’ dies at 101
Astute producer hailed as ‘true visionary’ by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; he also helped make ‘Some Like it Hot,’ ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ and countless other movies
By AP
The cast of the Hallmark film 'Made for Each Other.' (Steve Ackerman/Hallmark)
February 25, 2023, 3:24 am
From dust to human: A new Hallmark rom-com puts a twist on the Jewish golem legend
‘Made for Each Other,’ written by Israeli-American screenwriter Adi Blotman, centers around a mystical 16th-century folktale, with a 21st-century twist
By Amy Spiro
Albert Rosenberg image designed by Josh Sinclair. (Courtesy Melbar Entertainment Group)
February 17, 2023, 5:36 am
In ‘The Talented Mr. Rosenberg,’ a con artist tale so strange it’s hard to believe
Acclaimed filmmaker Barry Avrich covers what might be his most peculiar subject to date: Albert Rosenberg, a charlatan with so many cover stories, even his family doesn’t know him
By Rich Tenorio
In this still from the new feature film 'Alegria,' Yael (Laia Manzanares) is at right, with her mother Raquel (Adelfa Calvo) at left. (Courtesy/ Julio Vergne)
January 20, 2023, 10:12 pm
In ‘Alegría,’ Jews, Christians and Muslims come to a boil in a Spanish melting pot
The new film by director Violeta Salama, screening at the New York Jewish Film Festival on Jan. 22, embraces complexities of identity in the tumultuous African port city of Melilla
By Rich Tenorio
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
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The Women’s Balcony. (ChaiFlicks)
December 21, 2022, 7:44 pm
6 Jewish movies to watch this winter
These movies are very Jewish, & very good. From family-friendly stories to Fauda worthy action sequences, here are 7 Jewish movies now streaming on Jewish streaming platform ChaiFlicks.
From left: Sammy Fabelman (Gabriel LaBelle), Mitzi Fabelman (Michelle Williams), Burt Fabelman (Paul Dano), Natalie Fabelman (Keeley Karsten), Reggie Fabelman (Julia Butters) and Lisa Fabelman (Sophia Kopera) in 'The Fabelmans,' co-written, produced and directed by Steven Spielberg. (Courtesy Universal Pictures)
November 11, 2022, 2:57 am
Spielberg’s very Jewish memoir film ‘The Fabelmans’ is one of the best of his career
Out in NY and LA on Nov. 11 and countrywide the next week, the star-studded autobiography is its acclaimed director’s genesis story, full of references Diaspora Jews will love
By Jordan Hoffman
Left to right: Michael Banks Repeta stars as Paul Graff and Jaylin Webb stars as Johnny Crocker in director James Gray's 'Armageddon Time.' (Courtesy of Anne Joyce/Focus Features)
October 28, 2022, 3:16 pm
Director James Gray on memoir film, Trump and growing up Jewish in working-class NY
Opening in NY and LA Oct. 28, ‘Armageddon Time’ is a fictionalized account rich with details Jews of a certain place and time will pick up on, and a universal ethical dilemma
By Jordan Hoffman
Jason Sherman wanders through an Israeli pine forest in search of his tree, as seen in 'My Tree' documentary film. (John Minh Tran)
October 2, 2022, 1:44 am
In search of ‘his’ tree in Israel, a Canadian filmmaker unearths unsettling issues
After learning a sapling planted through JNF for his bar mitzvah is in a forest where once stood a Palestinian village, Jason Sherman asks himself if he is complicit in a cover-up
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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