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Adrien Brody at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2023. Credit: Harald Krichel via Wikimedia Commons.

‘The Brutalist’ wins award for best motion picture at Golden Globes

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“The Brutalist,” a film about a Holocaust survivor striving for his American Dream, won best drama motion picture at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards on Sunday. The film stars Adrien Brody as László Tóth, a...
At the 36th annual Israel Film Festival in Los Angeles are (from left) Ynon Kreiz, Mattel chairman and CEO; actress Gal Gadot; and Meir Fenistein, founder and executive director of the Israel Film Festival, which ran from Nov. 13-26, 2024. Photo by Jordan Strauss/January Images.

Israeli Film Festival in LA screens 40-plus pictures, draws 7,000 people

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The 36th Israel Film Festival in Los Angeles returned in full force after a two-year hiatus. The screenings, which ran from Nov. 13-16, drew more than 7,000 attendees to see more than 40 features, documentaries...

A Thanksgiving movie marathon with Jewish flavor

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Why just watch the Macy’s parade when you can celebrate the holiday with flicks like “Fiddler on the Roof” and “The Ten Commandments?” In addition to cooking all day and eating to your heart’s content...
Oscar given at the Academy Awards. Credit: LanKS/Shutterstock.

Israeli-made ‘Letter to a Pig’ nominated for Academy Award

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“Letter to a Pig,” by Israelis Tal Kantor and Amit Gicelter, has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. The 17-minute film is about a Holocaust survivor who writes a letter...
From left: Nancy Robinette, Daniel Oreskes, Richard Masur, Ari Brand and Ethan Haberfield in “Prayer for the French Republic.” Credit: Courtesy.

Catch the Holocaust before it disappears

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If you’re a Jew looking for sympathy in these sucker-punch days of hyper-antisemitism, find a way to transport yourself back to the early 1990s, a time when Holocaust memory—“Schindler’s List”; the opening of the...
Image of Amsterdam. Credit: Lucas Grey/Pixabay.

‘Occupied City’ reveals Amsterdam sites during Nazi German control

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The British filmmaker Steve McQueen and Bianca Stigter, his wife and creative partner, described their views on history and European antisemitism in a recent interview discussing their new documentary, “Occupied City.” Disputing the idea that antisemitism has...
A scene from the film"1506: The Lisbon Genocide." Credit: Courtesy.

Oporto Jewish community promotes film on 1506 Lisbon massacre

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Jewish communities don’t ordinarily double as film production companies, but the community of Oporto, Portugal, has shown itself to be anything but ordinary. It has begun promotion for its third film, “1506: The Lisbon...

Film in Chattanooga Jewish screening refers to ‘Occupied West Bank’

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The 16th annual Chattanooga Jewish Film Series, hosted by the Jewish Federation in the southeastern Tennessee city, began on Wednesday evening. Titles featured include the 1941 Holocaust escape drama “Farewell Mr. Haffman,” the musical drama “Love Gets...

Viewers Experience World of Deaf in ‘Since August’

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Now viewable on YouTube and other Internet platforms, Since August is a groundbreaking film in which most of the sparse dialogue is in American Sign Language with some English-language captioning. It takes hearing people into the...
American Jewish composer Leonard Bernstein seated at piano, making annotations to a musical score, 1955. Credit: Al Ravenna, World Telegram Staff Photographer via Wikimedia Commons.

Leonard Bernstein Netflix film criticized over ‘Jewface’

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In lush black and white, a man and woman sit back-to-back in a park, playing a guessing game together, dreaming that they can communicate telepathically if they just try hard enough. The scene cuts...