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A porcelain owl made by Ukrainian artists Anya Stasenko and Stava Leontyev sits in a crumbling wall in "Porcelain War." (Picturehouse 2024)
Posted inFilm

‘Porcelain War’: New documentary follows Ukrainian artists as they resist Russia’s invasion

Laura Pall by Laura Paull December 26, 2024December 26, 2024
Major Jewish movies of 2024 included (clockwise from top left) "Between the Temples," "September 5," "A Complete Unknown," "The Brutalist" and "A Real Pain." (Photo illustration: Grace Yagel/70 Faces Media)
Posted inFilm

From ‘A Real Pain’ to ‘The Brutalist’ and beyond, Jewish movies were everywhere in 2024. What does it mean?

by Andrew Lapin December 26, 2024December 26, 2024
a smiling blonde woman takes a selfie with a man dressed as Santa
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This Jewish S.F. native has written 12 Hallmark Christmas movies (and 2 about Hanukkah)

Benyamin Cohen by Benyamin Cohen December 24, 2024December 26, 2024
Brady Corbet’s film "The Brutalist" explores the odious and corrupt world of capital, ego and power which overwhelms an architect’s resources. (Focus Features)
Posted inFirst Person

Daniel Libeskind: Why ‘The Brutalist’ resonated so deeply with me as an architect

by Daniel Libeskind December 19, 2024December 19, 2024
“September 5” shows a team of ABC News producers struggling with live coverage decisions as tragedy unfolds in front of them during the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. (Courtesy of Paramount PIctures)
Posted inFilm

‘September 5’ focuses on news, not Jews, in dramatizing 1972 Munich attack on Israeli Olympians

by Stephen Silver December 13, 2024December 13, 2024
two younger men sit on a train
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In ‘A Real Pain,’ tourists bring their own miseries to Holocaust sites

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky November 25, 2024November 26, 2024
A painting of a gladiator, clad in gold, standing over his defeated opponent. He looks up at the crowd, many of whom hold their hands up in the thumbs-down sign.
Posted inFilm

There aren’t Jewish fighters in Ridley Scott’s ‘Gladiator II.’ But what about in ancient Rome?

by Luke Tress November 25, 2024November 25, 2024
netanyahu talks on the phone inside his limousine
Posted inFilm

In a startling new documentary about Netanyahu’s corruption, eerie echoes of Trump

by Olivia Haynie November 21, 2024November 21, 2024
David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji Kaplan (Kieran Culkin) take a train to Majdanek while on a tour of Poland in “A Real Pain.” (Courtesy Searchlight Pictures)
Posted inFilm

‘A Real Pain’ is Jesse Eisenberg’s love letter to Poland, the country his family left under duress

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg November 4, 2024November 4, 2024
a man with a mustache and beard grins menacingly as he holds up a skull inscribed all over with letters and numbers
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Q&A: Founder of Center for Monster Studies isn’t scared when the lights go down

by Sue Fishkoff October 30, 2024October 31, 2024

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