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Film

A pair of Blue Oyster mushrooms, seen in the documentary "Fantastic Fungi" (Photo/Courtesy Greta Zagarino-Greta Rose Agency)
Posted inArt & About

Art around the Bay this month: hate speech, sacred texts and shrooms

Laura Pall by Laura Paull September 5, 2019September 4, 2019
Still from “Crickets Would Sing” by director and writer Mauricio Baiocchi
Posted inTV & Film

Local survivor’s memoir to be adapted as stop-motion animated film

Laura Pall by Laura Paull August 30, 2019May 26, 2021
Armenian singer Hasmik Harutyunyan will perform at the Sonoma State University Jewish Music Series. (Photo/Courtesy Brian Wilson)
Posted inCulture

Armenian, Yiddish, and silent film at Sonoma Jewish Music Series

by Gabriel Greschler August 28, 2019
Woody Allen at the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France on May 15, 2015 (Photo/JTA-Ben A. Pruchnie-Getty Images)
Posted inTV & Film

Why Woody Allen’s latest film will not be released in the US

by JTA August 26, 2019
Israeli actor Tomer Capon is one of the stars of "The Boys" on Amazon Prime. Left to right: Karl Urban, Capon, Laz Alonso and Jack Quaid.
Posted inCelebrity Jews

Israeli star Tomer Capon fights superheroes; remembering Robin Williams; etc.

by Nate Bloom August 21, 2019August 21, 2019
Eli Roth (left) as the "Bear Jew" and Brad Pitt as Lt. Aldo Raine in Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film "Inglourious Basterds"
Posted inFilm

‘Inglourious Basterds’ came out 10 years ago. Has its meaning changed?

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA August 14, 2019
Sarah Silverman said of today’s America: “Incitements of violence based on lies and the disingenuous re-framings of truth.” (Photo/Gage Skidmore-Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inComedy

A Florida pastor called for Sarah Silverman’s death

by JTA August 13, 2019
Anton Yelchin (Photo/Courtesy Lurker Films)
Posted inFilm

New documentary celebrates the life of precocious Jewish movie star Anton Yelchin

by JTA and Stephen Silver August 12, 2019August 12, 2019
Joanne Greene with a young member of the Abayudaya Jewish community of Uganda (Photo/Fred Greene)
Posted inBay Area

Meet the Abayudaya Jews of Uganda, in documentary and talk at Marin JCC

by Dan Pine August 8, 2019August 8, 2019
Swami Satchidananda giving the opening speech at Woodstock (Photo/Wikimedia-Mark Goff)
Posted inFilm

Woodstock turns 50; feminist gangsters; ‘Scary Stories’; etc.

by Nate Bloom August 7, 2019

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