Televison & Film
‘The Cakemaker’: Love, lies and kosher baking
By TOM TUGEND LOS ANGELES (JTA) — The Cakemaker has been one of the more successful indie films on the...
Film: ‘Bye Bye Germany’
LIVING BY THEIR WITS — Army investigator Sara Simon (Antje Traue) interrogates David Bermann (Moritz Bleibtreu), a Holocaust survivor living...
Al Milgrom film to play MSPIFF
In a documentary feature from Phil Harder, audiences follow now 95-year-old Al Milgrom, an inveterate cinephile, through his life and living...
Foxtrot: Strangers in a strange land
by MICHAEL FOX An audacious work of art that melds raw emotion and absurdist allegory into a blistering assessment of...
MSPIFF: Around the Jewish world in film
by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor It is time once again for the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival (MSPIFF),...
Jewish Minnesota’s contribution to Hollywood
by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor Every year the Oscars include some Minnesotans, which is always a subject of interest...
Secret Hanuka: Festival of Lights onscreen
By MAX SPARBER Community News Editor A Vox article from last year asked why there are so few Hanuka movies,...
Everything’s coming up Jewish at The Heights
by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor The Jewish influence on film is pervasive, a case comprehensively made by critic Neal...
Comedian Robert Klein can’t stop his leg
By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN / Community News Editor On a Season Four episode of the Web series Comedians in Cars...
Must-watch Jewish TV: ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’
Main character Rebecca Bunch’s Judaism is a huge part of the series, recurring in ways both explicit and subtle By...
