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Yuval Abraham and Basel Adra accept the Oscar Best Documentary award for their film "No Other Land," March 2, 2025. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
March 5, 2025, 1:49 pm
Oscar-winning filmmakers caught on video pestering IDF troops
The scene in "No Other Land," described in the film as "settler violence and IDF cruelty," was a staged provocation, according to the local council.
By JNS
Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham at the 97th Oscars held at the Dolby Theatre on March 2, 2025 in Hollywood, California. (Rich Polk/Penske Media via Getty Images)
March 3, 2025, 5:04 pm
‘No Other Land,’ about demolition of Palestinian village, wins best documentary Oscar
An Israeli and a Palestinian co-director called in their speeches for Palestinian rights and a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
By Ben Sales
Gabe Rubin’s Art Cinema downtown hosted the Pittsburgh premier of the film adaptation of “The Dybbuk” in September 1938. An advertisement in the local Y Weekly described the movie as “a picture that oversteps all boundaries of language.” (Image courtesy of the Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project)
February 27, 2025, 9:49 am
‘The Dybbuk’ again and again
In the second of a three-part series, “The Dybbuk” returns to Pittsburgh again and again from the late 1920s to the early 1990s through theater and film.
By Eric Lidji
Jacob Fortune-Lloyd stars as "Fifth Beatle" Brian Epstein in "Midas Man." (Kerry Spicer)
February 2, 2025, 3:53 pm
In ‘Midas Man,’ a new biopic of Jewish Beatles manager Brian Epstein, a synagogue sets the scene
Epstein, sometimes referred to as the “Fifth Beatle,” came from an Orthodox family in Liverpool.
Guy Pearce (front), Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones in a scene from "The Brutalist." (Lol Crowley/A24)
January 28, 2025, 9:16 am
Jewish postwar epic ‘The Brutalist’ picks up 10 Oscar nominations, with ‘A Complete Unknown’ close behind
A documentary about Israel’s military in the West Bank also picked up a nomination.
By Andrew Lapin
Adrien Brody poses with the Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama award for "The Brutalist" at the Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California, Jan. 5 2025. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP via Getty Images)
January 6, 2025, 10:06 am
‘The Brutalist,’ Adrien Brody and Kieran Culkin win at Golden Globes
“The Brutalist” stars Brody as an architect who survived the Holocaust and immigrated to the United States
By Ben Sales
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)
December 24, 2024, 5:00 pm
Jewish movies were everywhere in 2024. What does it mean?
Amid widespread Jewish anxiety over Israel and antisemitism, Jewish movies are once again ruling the awards conversation.
By Andrew Lapin
Adrien Brody in "The Brutalist" (Lol Crowley/A24)
December 18, 2024, 3:56 pm
The epic new movie getting Oscar buzz is built from the stories of postwar Jewish architects
The historical drama stars Adrien Brody as a fictional Holocaust survivor and architect.
By Andrew Lapin
From ‘October H8te,’ Wendy Sachs’ documentary that premiered in Tel Aviv on October 30, 2024 (Courtesy)
November 6, 2024, 11:27 am
‘October H8te’ documentary aims to understand US college alignment with Hamas
Wendy Sachs’ film explores how campus social justice movements ended up backing a terrorist organization, and how Jewish students dealt with the accompanying antisemitism
By Jessica Steinberg
Helen Mirren as Grandmère and Bryce Gheisar as Julian in "White Bird: A Wonder Story." (Larry Horricks)
October 6, 2024, 7:42 pm
‘White Bird’ stars Helen Mirren as a Holocaust survivor who teaches her grandson about kindness
The major motion picture is an adaptation of "Wonder" author R.J. Palacio’s graphic novel of the same name.
By Shira Li Bartov
Jason Schwartzman plays a cantor and Carol Kane plays an adult bat mitzvah student in Nathan Silver's film, "Between the Temples." (Sony Pictures Classics)
August 22, 2024, 7:18 am
Jason Schwartzman plays a small-town cantor with a spiritual crisis in ‘Between the Temples’
This many be the most Jewish mainstream movie of the year
By Stephen Silver
A group of schoolchildren read a news magazine in "June Zero," a new film dramatizing the Eichmann trial's reception in Israel. (Courtesy Cohen Media Group)
July 4, 2024, 2:09 pm
‘June Zero’ depicts Adolf Eichmann’s trial through the eyes of Israelis adjacent to it
The film "takes an ambitious and unconventional approach by focusing on a series of events outside of the trial itself."
By Stephen Silver
Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry visit Auschwitz in "Treasure," a 2024 tragicomedy set in the 1990s. (Bleecker Street)
June 16, 2024, 10:39 am
Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry take a father-daughter trip to Auschwitz in tragicomedy ‘Treasure’
The film tells the story of New York journalist Ruth Rothwax and her Holocaust survivor father as they visit the city of his birth — Łódź — and the concentration camp he survived.
By Toby Axelrod
Hollywoodland : An Exhibition on Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital on Display May 8, 2024 at the The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. (Photo by Josh White, JWPictures/Academy Museum Foundation)
May 17, 2024, 2:33 pm
LA’s Academy Museum initially excluded Hollywood’s Jewish origins. A new exhibit on Jewish film pioneers fixes that.
“Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital” traces the history and legacy of early 20th century.
By Jacob Gurvis
Actor Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka on the set of the film "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)
April 19, 2024, 12:04 pm
JFilm brings independent Jewish films to Pittsburgh
16 films from around the world will be shown in Pittsburgh or will be able to be accessed virtually
By Chronicle Staff
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