Big Screen Roundup, From Israel, America and Germany
Sosúa: Make a Better World Bits of West Side Story, strangers in a strange land and a civic lesson on American diversity are rolled into
Brief Reviews: Trips of Nostalgia and Tales of Survival
FILMS Zaytoun An odd-couple road movie is mixed with Middle East politics as Fahed, a Palestinian boy from a Lebanese refugee camp longing to plant
Brief Reviews: Securing Israel, Taking New York
FILMS War of the Buttons It is 1944 in occupied France, and Jews are being dragged off by the French police. But for the young
Film Review: Mighty Fine
When I was a youngster, one of my favorite desserts was a sweet chocolate pudding with the brand name My-T-Fine. Now we have a movie, Mighty
Brief Reviews: Movie Nights
FILMs My Lovely Sister Dipping into tales told by his Moroccan grandmother, director Marco Carmel conjures a magical realist tale of sibling rivalry that crosses
Brief Reviews: Horrors, on Screen and in Life
FILMS The Other Son French director Lorraine Lévy’s movie may contain heartache, as two sets of parents—one Jewish, the other Palestinian—learn that their sons were
Summer Movie Nights: Films You May Have Missed
Israeli, Yiddish, American and foreign films of Jewish interest come and go quickly in theaters, at film festivals or at community center screenings. When they