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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 533

movie directors

Jeff Baena arrives at the premiere of "Spin Me Round," August 17, 2022, at The London in West Hollywood, Calif. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
January 5, 2025, 8:11 am
Director Jeff Baena found dead in his home at 47
Circumstances of death still unknown; Los Angeles medical examiner’s office says details won’t be revealed until investigation is concluded
By AP and ToI Staff
Director Norman Jewison, right, and star Topol as Tevye on the set of the film version of "Fiddler on the Roof." (Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber via JTA)
January 23, 2024, 5:43 am
‘Fiddler on the Roof’ director Norman Jewison dies at 97
Though not a member of the tribe, the filmmaker was widely believed to be due to his association with ‘Fiddler’; did have a Jewish wedding, though
By Andrew Lapin
Director Guy Nattiv poses for photographers at the photo call for the film 'Golda' during the International Film Festival 'Berlinale', in Berlin, Germany, on Feb. 20, 2023. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP, File)
August 25, 2023, 12:44 pm
Director of ‘Golda’: Criticism against Israel’s first female PM was misogynism
In interview, director Guy Nattiv explains how he sought to soften, deepen the memory of Golda Meir and why Helen Mirren is great for the part of Meir
By Jocelyn Noveck
Gal Gadot, left, shown at an event in New York, and Damian Szifron, shown at the Cannes Film Festival. (Getty Images via JTA)
August 24, 2023, 12:52 pm
Gal Gadot viral in Argentina for desire to work with local director
Argentine-Jewish director Damian Szifron is known for weaving Jewish characters into his movies
By Juan Melamed
Director William Friedkin poses for portraits after interviews for his film, 'Killer Joe' in Venice, Italy, September 8, 2011. (AP Photo/ Joel Ryan, File)
August 8, 2023, 7:46 am
William Friedkin, award-winning director of ‘Exorcist,’ dead at 87
Jewish filmmaker, also known for Oscar-winning ‘French Connection,’ struggled in later years but maintained support for Israel, directing an opera in Tel Aviv
By AFP
Shlomi Bertonov, right, as Ben in 'Concerned Citizen.' (Guy Sahaf via JTA)
June 14, 2023, 12:15 pm
Israeli drama ‘Concerned Citizen’ tackles gentrification and race issues in Tel Aviv
Writer-director Idan Haguel’s second film, about notoriously rundown and singularly diverse Neve Sha’anan, hits close to home — much of it was filmed in his own old apartment
By Sarah Rosen
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
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
'Il Colibrì' ("The Hummingbird) directed by Francesca Archibugi, is the opening film of the Wave Festival of Italian female directors, opening December 11, 2022 (Courtesy PR)
December 11, 2022, 12:30 pm
Movies by female Italian directors are focus of Israel’s Wave Festival
Cinematheques across the country set to show works by leading filmmakers in 10-day festival
By Jessica Steinberg
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
Film director Jean-Luc Godard smokes at Cannes festival, France on May 25, 1982. (AP Photo/Jean-Jacques Levy, File)
September 13, 2022, 1:58 pm
Jean-Luc Godard, renowned French director and pro-Palestinian activist, dies at 91
Lifelong advocacy for Palestinians brought filmmaker repeated accusations of antisemitism, despite his insistence that he sympathized with the Jewish people
By AP
Actors Paul Dano, Mateo Zoryna Francis-Deford and Michele Williams as 'The Fabelmans' in Steven Spielberg's long-awaited, semi-autobiographical film about his own family (Courtesy 'The Fabelmans')
September 12, 2022, 5:08 pm
Semi-autobiographical Spielberg movie gets 1st trailer
‘The Fabelmans,’ set for a November release, is about a young aspiring filmmaker and his family
By Jessica Steinberg
Israeli director Ari Folman speaks during a master class at the Sarajevo Film Festival in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, August 2022. (Sarajevo Film Festival/ Obala Art Centar)
August 27, 2022, 2:39 pm
In Sarajevo, Ari Folman talks genocide, animating Anne Frank and pleasing his mother
Speaking with ToI at the Sarajevo Film Festival where he screened ‘Where is Anne Frank,’ the Israeli director dishes on an array of complex topics – just like his movies do
By JP O’ Malley
'Fiddler on the Roof' director Norman Jewison (right) on set in 1970 with Chaim Topol, who played Tevye. (Courtesy of Zeitgeist Films)
April 29, 2022, 11:05 am
Documentary takes film lovers behind the scenes of making ‘Fiddler on the Roof’
‘Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen’ breaks down the movie magic of a beloved 50-year-old musical, and shows how the film brought gentile director Norman Jewison closer to Judaism
By Renee Ghert-Zand
From left: Actors Simon Helberg, Candice Bergen, Dustin Hoffman, writer-director Mayim Bialik and actor Dianna Agron, on the set of Bialik's feature directorial debut, 'As They Made Us.' (Screen Media/ JTA)
April 12, 2022, 2:21 am
Mayim Bialik assembles a very Jewish cast in her directorial debut
In ‘As They Made Us,’ the ‘Big Bang Theory’ star steps behind the camera to write and direct a semi-autobiographical melodrama about a family’s encounter with death and dysfunction
By Andrew Lapin
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