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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.

Identical triplets (left to right) Eddy, David and Bobby, adopted into different Jewish families at birth, are the subjects of a new documentary film.
Posted inFilm

In stranger-than-fiction documentary, triplets forced apart at birth find each other

by Michael Fox June 28, 2018June 26, 2018
Rachel Weisz (left) and Rachel McAdams steal an intimate moment in  "Disobedience." (Photo/Agatha A. Nitecka, Bleecker Street)
Posted inCulture

‘Disobedience’ avoids tradition vs. modernity trope to tell truly original story

by Michael Fox April 30, 2018
In this surrealistic scene in “Foxtrot,” a bored young soldier dances with his rifle.
Posted inCulture

Sure-footed ‘Foxtrot’ touches on Israel’s deepest issues

by Michael Fox March 13, 2018March 23, 2018
Scene from "Shelter"
Posted inCulture

A Mossad agent and her Arab informant seek elusive ‘Shelter’ in new Israeli film

by Michael Fox March 8, 2018March 23, 2018
Muhi and his grandfather, Abu Naim (Photo/Courtesy Medalia Productions)
Posted inCulture

In ‘Muhi,’ meet a limbless Palestinian boy confined to an Israeli hospital

by Michael Fox March 5, 2018March 23, 2018
Aaron Altaras in “The Invisibles,” a drama about Jews hiding in wartime Berlin
Posted inFilm

In WWII, they were ‘Invisibles,’ but the film is something to be seen

by Michael Fox March 1, 2018March 23, 2018
"Bombshell," a documentary on the life of Hedy Lamarr, is playing at the East Bay International Jewish Film Festival
Posted inCulture

Identity was the real ‘Bombshell’ in Hedy Lamarr’s story

by Michael Fox February 27, 2018March 23, 2018
“An Act of Defiance” is a South African thriller about the Jewish attorney who defended Nelson Mandela during the 1963 Rivonia Trial.
Posted inCulture

2018 East Bay Jewish film festival focus: #StandUp to injustice

by Michael Fox February 23, 2018March 23, 2018
Paul Sorvino (left), Martin Landau and Maria Dizzia in “Abe and Phil’s Last Poker Game”
Posted inCulture

Landau comes up aces in ‘Last Poker Game,’ his final film

by Michael Fox February 7, 2018March 23, 2018
Adel Karam as Toni (left) and Kamel El Basha as Yasser in “The Insult” (Photo/Courtesy Cohen Media Group)
Posted inCulture

Lebanese director who was arrested for filming in Israel up for an Oscar

by Michael Fox January 23, 2018March 23, 2018

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