Televison & Film
Here’s the Jewish angle on MSPIFF
AJW Staff Report The much-anticipated Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival (MSPIFF) is underway, running through April 20, with more...
When Harpo and Dali wrote a film
From the Strange but True Department: Harpo Marx, the silent member of the Marx Brothers, and surrealist painter Salvador Dali...
A new Jewish Christmas tradition: Watching ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ at your local movie theater
by TOM TUGEND LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Sick of eating Chinese food and taking in another modern blockbuster on Christmas,...
Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin mine aging for laughs in Chuck Lorre’s latest, ‘The Kominsky Method’
By CURT SCHLEIER (JTA) — The Kominsky Method is the wisest and saddest new comedy on television. That might be its...
This Israeli documentary about a transgender woman is a real-life version of ‘Transparent’
By NAOMI PFEFFERMAN (JTA) — It’s like the Amazon Studios series Transparent — only it’s real, not fiction. Amit Tsuk, left,...
Profiles in Jewish courage
By JOHN OSTFIELD An Act of Defiance (the concluding film in the 2018 Twin Cities Jewish Film Festival) tells the story...
TCJFF: Return of the Jewish Film Festival
AJW Staff Report It is now the 24th season of the Twin Cities Jewish Film Festival. Already a partnership between...
A zombie movie set on Rosh Hashana
by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor Here it is, just a few days before Rosh Hashana, and I wound up...
Attend a preview screening of ‘Operation Finale’
MGM and the American Jewish World are offering a free pass for two to an Aug. 27 preview screening of...
A talk about Hollywood’s Golden Age stars
As teenagers, Jewish St. Paul native David Fantle and his co-author, Tom Johnson, wrote letters to some of Hollywood's Golden...
