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Michael Fox

Michael Fox is a longtime film journalist and critic, and a member of the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle. He teaches documentary classes at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute programs at U.C. Berkeley and S.F. State. In 2015, the San Francisco Film Society added Fox to Essential SF, its ongoing compendium of the Bay Area film community's most vital figures and institutions.

Niv Nissim, right, and John Benjamin Hickey star in "Sublet," the new film from director Eytan Fox. (Photo/Daniel Miller)
Posted inCulture

Eytan Fox, pop prince of Israeli cinema, keeps it queer in ‘Sublet’

by Michael Fox June 10, 2021June 10, 2021
Three older men sit together. Gamal Helal, on the right, points at Arafat, on the left, while talking to him. Bill Clinton sits between them, looking on with intensity.
Posted inCulture

‘The Human Factor’: Documentary tells saga of US-led Middle East peace flops

by Michael Fox April 30, 2021April 30, 2021
Lila Thielmans in the new documentary "Yiddish." (Photo/Courtesy Icarus Films)
Posted inFilm

‘Yiddish’ documentary spotlights 20th-century poets and their 21st-century admirers

by Michael Fox March 1, 2021March 3, 2021
Philippe Tlokinski as Stan Ulam in "Adventures of a Mathematician."
Posted inFilm

Ethics and science and the Manhattan Project in ‘Adventures of a Mathematician’ 

by Michael Fox February 22, 2021February 22, 2021
Michael Stuhlberg as Larry Gopnik in the Coen Brothers' "A Serious Man."
Posted inTV

8 great Jewish movies only a click away

by Michael Fox June 9, 2020June 10, 2020
Junior Mayema, a gay refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo who now lives in San Francisco is one of four Bay Area refugees profiled in the documentary "Unsettled." (Tom Shepard)
Posted inBay Area, Culture, Film, TV & Film

At East Bay Jewish film fest, ‘Unsettled’ shows humanity of four local gay refugees

by Michael Fox February 27, 2020February 28, 2020
Clive Owen plays Dovidl as an adult in "Song of Names." (JTA/Sabrina Lantos/Sony Picture Classics)
Posted inTV & Film

Tim Roth and Clive Owen star in ‘Song of Names,’ which melds Holocaust, mystery and music

by Michael Fox December 27, 2019January 6, 2020
Adam Sandler as a New York jeweler in “Uncut Gems.” (Photo/Courtesy A24)
Posted inTV & Film

The 10 best Jewish films of 2019, from Holocaust satire to ‘Fiddler’ documentary

by Michael Fox December 23, 2019
The utterly unloveable Roy Cohn in his later years (Photo/Courtesy Mill Valley Film Festival)
Posted inFilm

New documentary takes a hard look at the brilliant, widely despised Roy Cohn

by Michael Fox October 17, 2019October 17, 2019
Kais Nashif plays Salam, an underachiever who works on a soap opera in “Tel Aviv on Fire.” (Photo/Courtesy S.F. Jewish Film Festival)
Posted inFilm

‘Tel Aviv on Fire,’ comedy about Palestinian soap opera writer, burns bright

by Michael Fox August 6, 2019August 6, 2019

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