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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.

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Posted inCulture, Film, TV & Film

‘Women’s Balcony’: East Bay Jewish film fest opener is a favorite in Israel

by Michael Fox February 22, 2017March 23, 2018
An older white man leans on his desk with an intense
Posted inUncategorized, Film, TV & Film

Holocaust looms large in Berlin & Beyond Film Festival

by Michael Fox January 24, 2017March 23, 2018
Posted inArt

Actor-directors Jewish connections shine on-screen

by Michael Fox October 20, 2016December 29, 2016
TheArtsYam
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Complexities of raising a disabled teen in Yams Journey

by Michael Fox October 14, 2016December 29, 2016
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VIDEO: Hackneyed Denial doesnt do justice to Lipstadt trial

by Michael Fox October 7, 2016December 29, 2016
Posted inArt, Film, TV & Film

Polish horror film conjures ghost, past atrocities

by Michael Fox September 16, 2016March 23, 2018
Posted inArt, Film, TV & Film

Ken Burns narrows focus to two Christian Holocaust rescuers

by Michael Fox September 16, 2016March 23, 2018
Posted inArt, Culture, Film, TV & Film

Jerry Lewis shines as unsentimental widower in ‘Max Rose’

by Michael Fox September 16, 2016March 23, 2018
Posted inArt

Just how Jewish was Leonard Nimoy? Son tells all

by Michael Fox September 9, 2016July 5, 2023
Posted inArt, Film, TV & Film

Portman adapts Oz novel in brooding Love and Darkness

by Michael Fox August 26, 2016March 23, 2018

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