Directors and Dictators: Jewish Films at the Chicago International Film Festival
A preview of some of the films from this year's Chicago International Film Festival....
Author: Andrew Lapin
‘Transparent’ Leaves This World a Stranger to Itself
The show has always played with its central family’s Jewish identity and customs in offbeat, transgressive ways, allowing the gender politics and arrested development of its central characters to twist their relationship to their own faith....
‘Heavyweight’ Is a Podcast About Reconnecting With Your Past
In one episode, Goldstein explores his long-lost dream of becoming a rabbi; in another, he interviews his first girlfriend, trying to figure out where their relationship went wrong....
Netflix’s ‘The Spy’ Sneaks a Serious Actor out of Sacha Baron Cohen
There is, now and forever, only one character who comes to mind whenever Sacha Baron Cohen grows a mustache and sports a vaguely non-Western accent....
‘Chernobyl’: The One Show You Must Binge Before the Emmys
HBO’s historical miniseries about the largest nuclear disaster in human history, created by Jewish writer-producer Craig Mazin, is absolutely gripping....
The Best Jewish Movies of the Year—so Far
It’s a big tent, and the world of Jewish film should reflect that, which means exploring beyond the shtetl and the Upper East Side....