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Jirí Menzel (left) and Peter Simonischek in “The Interpreter” (Photo/Courtesy Menemsha Films-JFI)
Posted inCulture

‘Interpreter’ evokes war angst in past and present Europe

by Michael Fox July 16, 2018July 27, 2018
Jowita Budnik as Rachel Auerbach, one of only three members of the secret Oyneg Shabes group to survive (Photo/Courtesy Anna Wloch-JFI)
Posted inFilm

The secret society that documented truth of the Warsaw Ghetto

by Rob Gloster July 13, 2018July 23, 2018
“The Man Who Stole Banksy,” part of this year's SF Jewish Film Festival asks if the mysterious street artist's work can be owned. Can it be removed? Can it be sold? (Photo/Courtesy JFI)
Posted inCulture

Banksy in the West Bank: Whose art is it anyway?

Hannah Jannol by Hannah Jannol July 13, 2018July 13, 2018
Israeli writer Etgar Keret in “Etgar Keret: Based on a True Story" (Photo/Courtesy Jewish Film Institute)
Posted inCulture

Global zeitgeist on screen at 38th SF Jewish Film Festival

Laura Pall by Laura Paull July 12, 2018July 13, 2018
Jerry Seinfeld and President Barack Obama in a 2015 episode of "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee," now available on Netflix
Posted inCelebrity Jews

Daveed Diggs comes home to Oakland; Seinfeld’s ‘Comedians in Cars’ on Netflix

by Nate Bloom July 11, 2018
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
Paul Rudd on the set of "Ant-Man and The Wasp"
Posted inCelebrity Jews

Rudd returns as Ant-Man; what to watch after Bourdain; an award for Neil Diamond

by Nate Bloom June 26, 2018
Gilda Radner in the documentary “Love, Gilda” (Photo/Courtesy SFJFF)
Posted inFilm

SF Jewish Film Festival announces lineup

Laura Pall by Laura Paull June 20, 2018July 9, 2018
Rashida Jones in "Tag"
Posted inColumns

Rashida plays ‘Tag’; Lamarr doc now on Netflix; Portman in Foer’s ‘Eating Animals’

by Nate Bloom June 19, 2018
Actresses (from left) Brooke Adams, Emily Baldoni and Piper Laurie as three generations of women in Jan Miller Corran’s “Snapshots.” (Photo/Sunny Bak)
Posted inCulture

A mother’s deathbed confession inspired film about fallout from old family secrets

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller June 15, 2018June 15, 2018

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