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Late in Ushpizin, an Israeli film about the penury, barrenness, and public humiliation endured by a Breslov Hasidic couple in Jerusalem during the holiday of Sukkot, Moshe Bellanga runs to a forested...
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Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen filming Jellyfish To judge how greatly Israeli cinema has changed, and how greatly it needed to, consider that the Film Society of Lincoln Center recently showed a...
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On Tuesday night, the Manhattan JCC screened three short films by students of Jerusalem’s Ma’aleh School of Television, Film and the Arts. Afterwards, Neta Ariel, Ma’aleh director, and Einat Kapach,...
View ArticleIsraeli film 'Footnote' nominated for best foreign film
The 2012 Oscar nominees have been announced, and Israel’s well-received official entry, Footnote, is on the list for best foreign film. Also nominated was Iranian screenwriter Asghar Farhadi’s A...
View ArticleDirector Joseph Cedar Reveals the Stories Behind His Academy Award-Nominated...
The Israeli film Footnote, which was nominated for an Academy Award last week, is the fourth feature film by writer-director Joseph Cedar. Footnote is a slice-of-Jerusalem-life, set at Hebrew...
View ArticleJ. Hoberman Reviews Joseph Cedar’s Oscar-Nominated ‘Footnote’
Footnote, the absurdist tragedy by New York-born, Israeli-raised Joseph Cedar, is a movie of such cosmic inconsequence that hyperbole is inevitable. So here goes: If immersing oneself in the history of...
View ArticleHow the New Israeli Film 'Fill the Void' Takes a Page From Jane Austen
The cloistered confines of Haredi society are no stranger to Israeli television and film, which has long been fascinated by the isolated enclaves of the ultra-Orthodox. But unlike those depictions,...
View ArticleIsraeli Actor and Director Assi Dayan Dies at 68
Assi Dayan, writer, director, actor, and scion of Israeli aristocracy, died today at his Tel Aviv home at 68. He was responsible for some of Israeli cinema’s greatest popular hits, as well as some of...
View ArticleAnger After Director Distances Israeli-Funded Film From Israel at Venice Film...
The Israeli government and members of the country’s film industry are furious with Israeli-Arab film director Suha Arraf, who categorized her film Villa Touma as Palestinian at this month’s Venice...
View ArticleIconic Israeli Director Menahem Golan Dies at 85
Director and producer Menahem Golan, one of the founding fathers of Israeli cinema who also made it big in Hollywood, has died at 85, less than three months after a documentary about his film empire...
View ArticleIn Israel’s Big Summer Blockbuster, a Soccer Star Pretends To Be Gay
It’s been an eventful summer for Beitar Jerusalem. In June, after several young Israelis brutally murdered an Arab teenager in retaliation for the kidnapping and killing of three Jewish youths, police...
View ArticleIsrael's Academy Awards Entry is a Farsi-Language Film About an...
For the first time, Israel will submit a Farsi-language film as its Academy Awards entry for best foreign language film this year, reported JTA. Baba Joon, which won the award for best picture at...
View ArticleJ. Hoberman Reviews Shimon Dotan's 'Compelling' Film 'The Settlers'
One of the first things to strike you in The Settlers, Shimon Dotan’s compelling, strongly articulated documentary portrait of Israelis and others living adjacent to the state of Israel on the occupied...
View ArticleWatch: Exclusive Clip From Rama Burshtein's New Film, 'The Wedding Plan'
We’re proud to present an exclusive clip from The Wedding Plan, the second feature film by Israeli-American Ultra-Orthodox director Rama Burshtein (Fill the Void). The film centers on Michal, a...
View ArticleJ. Hoberman Reviews Rama Burshtein’s ‘The Wedding Plan,’ a...
I am not a religious Jew. Nor do I believe in Hollywood happy endings. Yet I can’t deny my fascination with The Wedding Plan, the second feature by the ultra-Orthodox Israeli director Rama Burshtein....
View ArticleIn a New Israeli Movie, ‘The Women’s Balcony,’ Religious Women Are the Real...
If, like me, you are one of those old-fashioned Jews who considers shul a central part of life, the first few minutes of The Women’s Balcony, a tremendously enjoyable Israeli film screening next week...
View ArticleWATCH: An Exclusive Clip from the Charming Israeli Comedy 'The Women's Balcony'
We still love you, Gal Gadot, but other Israeli women are making box office bank this summer: The Women’s Balcony, a charming indie comedy that was an audience favorite when released last year in...
View ArticleThe Hollywood Reporter Names Jerusalem Film School As One of World's Best
What are the world’s greatest film schools? The Hollywood Reporter posed this Talmudic question to a gallery of correspondents, who, yesterday, published their definitive list. There’s Rome’s Centro...
View ArticleToday on Jewcy: A look at Israel’s history at the Academy Awards and its...
It’s awards season! Nominations for the Critics’ Choice Awards, Golden Globes, and Screen Actors Guild have all been announced in recent weeks, all leading up to the Oscar nominees being revealed in...
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Late in Ushpizin, an Israeli film about the penury, barrenness, and public humiliation endured by a Breslov Hasidic couple in Jerusalem during the holiday of Sukkot, Moshe Bellanga runs to a forested...
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