film Archives – Jewish Journal

How Refugees Influenced Hollywood

Jonathan Kirsch January 29, 2020

Payne’s ‘Nebraska’ a small-town triumph

Melissa Weller December 8, 2013

Imagine what a movie showcasing an ordinary, lukewarm existence might look like. One without mobs or crooked cops and the only color in the characters’ lives is the blue on their collar.

‘Aftermath’ exposes dark secrets in Poland

Tom Tugend November 13, 2013

The Nazi occupation of most of Europe during World War II and the Holocaust tested the moral fiber not only of the individual citizen but also of entire nations.

Review: ‘Kill Your Darlings,’ but phone it in

Melissa Weller October 22, 2013

Those who walked into the theater hoping to walk out with an enlightened appreciation of the significance surrounding these legendary writers and the Beat Movement they inspired were surprised, at best, to find a chick flick noir instead.

French film asks, what’s in a ‘name’?

Tom Tugend June 14, 2011

Baya Benmahmoud, the heroine of the French film “The Names of Love,” gives new meaning to the concept of political activism. A fervent, if rather naïve, left-winger whose guiding motto is, “Make love, not war,” her mission is to convert right-wing politicians to the correct ideology by sleeping with them. “I am a political whore,” she announces proudly when she meets Arthur Martin, a 40-ish, uptight ornithologist, who rambles on about bird diseases when Baya inquires whether they should make love at his or her place.

The Silent Minority

Gene Lichtenstein April 29, 2004

If there had been any doubts that I was in another country, they were erased when the first reviews of Mel Gibson\’s "The Passion of the Christ" began to appear in the London press.