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Wes Anderson's "The French Dispatch" is inspired by The New Yorker and its journalists, including Mavis Gallant and AJ Liebling. → Read More
Salinger is one of the last major American writers to be published digitally. → Read More
Benjamín Naishtat’s “Rojo” is a thriller that has echoes of the tales of the Jewish disappeared under Argentina's military junta. → Read More
Jia Zhangke’s "Ash Is Purest White," socially critical yet officially sanctioned, strikes a middle path for Chinese cinema. → Read More
"The Great Pretender," "Support The Girls" and "Maison du Bonheur" are among the best, little-seen films of 2018. → Read More
Born Jacob Julius Garfinkel to Russian Jewish parents, John Garfield was at once ahead of the curve and decidedly a creature of his time. → Read More
John Garfield's last film, the 1951 noir "He Ran All The Way," resonates with echoes of the ill-fated, blacklisted actor's life. → Read More
“Marnie” was one of the Hitchcock’s tales of vulnerable beauties psychologically dominated to varying extents by dashing men. → Read More
In “Fairfax Avenue,” Janet Leigh plays a diva who is writing her memoirs for the Jewish Daily Forward. → Read More
Christian Petzold's 'Transit,' based on a 1944 novel by Anna Seghers offers a noirish take on exile past and present. → Read More
“American Dharma” presents the same difficulties as following up a film like “Borat”: once people know your game, it’s harder to punk them. → Read More
It’s been almost a year since “American Dharma,” Errol Morris’s Steve Bannon documentary, premiered at the Venice Film Festival. In the interim, another Bannon documentary, Allison Klayman’s “The Brink,” came out to considerably more acclaim; FBI Director Christopher Wray identified white nationalism of the kind winked at by Bannon as America’s major source of domestic terrorism; and Morris,… → Read More
A filmmaker who discovered his Jewish ancestry only in adulthood, Truffaut here recalls Primo Levi. → Read More
According to his admirers, Blecher was a hidden genius of modernist literature, another lost Kafka scattered in the wreckage of 20th century Europe. → Read More
According to his admirers, Blecher was a hidden genius of modernist literature, another lost Kafka scattered in the wreckage of 20th century Europe. → Read More
The documentary "Filmworker" tells the heretofore unknown story of Stanley Kubrick's longtime assistant Leon Vitali. → Read More
Everyone from the French communists to the Gestapo decried the film. → Read More
Alejo Moguillansky, a Jewish filmmaker from Buenos Aires, talks about his new film, “The Little Match Girl" and its evocation of boho life. → Read More
Alex Ross Perry's "Golden Exits" recalls Robert Altman and Woody Allen as it focuses on youthful characters spinning their wheels in Brooklyn. → Read More
Chantal Akerman's "Dis Moi" and Su Friedrich's "The Ties That Bind" will screen at New York's Metrograph on February 3. → Read More