Film
How Jews helped start India’s film industry.
The very act of converting the Shoah into a story on film is a violation of its meaning, its force, and its evil.
The Oscar-winning new film Son of Saul drops us into the heart of Auschwitz. What’s the point?
The enigma of Avraham Ḥalfi.
Thoughts from his latest biographer.
A new documentary’s false promises.
“An Israeli artist who devotes himself to anything other than denouncing Israel is guilty and deserves to be shunned.”
A new film tells his story.
A splashy new documentary promises to expose the Israeli military’s censorship of atrocities committed in the 1967 war. What it exposes is its creators’ agenda.
A remarkable concert reintroduces three Jewish composers who fled fascist Europe to America, where two of them pioneered a new art form—the symphonic film score.
So Forbidden Films: The Hidden Legacy of Nazi Films asks.