Movies

Food, music and politics define the Jewish Film Series that launches this weekend at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington. The series is less an official event than an ad hoc grouping of good movies...

The horrors of the Holocaust have been portrayed many times in film, most notably Schindler’s List and The Pianist. One such horror, however, has never been a focus of film study: the euthanasia program...

OK, I’ll admit it, I enjoy children’s movies.  They are frequently gentle, sentimental, and have happy endings.  I went to see  Tim Burton’s new version of Dumbo and liked it very much.  Although I saw the...

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...

London-based filmmaker Eva Lanska’s award-winning drama short Little French Fish held its European premiere on leading short movie entertainment network ShortsTV on September 19, 2021. The film first premiered on ShortsTV in North America on September 9, 2021 on DirecTV, AT&T...

In the 2016 film Remember, streaming on Netflix, Christopher Plummer plays Zev Guttman, an Auschwitz concentration camp survivor who lost his family in World War II to a sadistic Blockführer known as Kurlander. Zev and his...

–I was lucky to be able to watch the film Harry Chapin: When in Doubt, Do Something at the San Diego International Film Festival’s outdoor drive-in movie experience. Although it didn’t win any official awards at...

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...

In Jeff Lipsky’s film Last, Joshua, a modern Orthodox Jew, and his recently converted wife, Olivia, are sitting in beach chairs, having what started as a pleasant conversation with Joshua’s 92-year-old maternal great grandmother, Claire, about...

Renee Saltiel and Solon Molho grew up in the largest Sephardic Jewish community in the world, Salonika, or Thessaloniki, in today’s Greece. More than 90,000 Jews lived there then. But by the time the Germans...