Aileen Jacobson
What it most feels like is a story about the evolution of a feminist, or at least the beginnings of that evolution.
When a Woman Made Decisions at Washington Post: New Movie Tells All. Or Most.
Category: Feminists In Focus
Film News and Reviews
Two Films Expose Anti-Sephardi and Anti-Mizrahi Racism in Israel
Yaelle Azagury
The films discredit long-established stereotypes while puncturing the myth of a Jewish homeland equally welcoming to Jews of all ethnic backgrounds.
What Does a Star Do After Winning the Academy Award for Best Actress?
Amy Stone
For those of us who track the successes for women in film, what a tour de force.
“Censored Voices”: Intimate Conversations with Six-Day War Soldiers in a New Film
Amy Stone
These voices undermine the mythic triumphalism of the Six-Day War.
New York Jewish Film Festival Opener: “The Muses of Isaac Bashevis Singer”
Amy Stone
The ghost of Isaac Bashevis Singer got lucky. Two Israeli filmmakers—male – have handed the master of Yiddish tales a posthumous grand slam.
‘She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry’ – The women’s movement gets a kick-ass documentary
Amy Stone
“She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry” is the women’s movement film we’ve been waiting for. We just didn’t know it.
Meet on Screen the First Woman Rabbi
Amy Stone
How do you make a documentary about Regina Jonas, the world’s first woman rabbi, when only one photograph survives?
Where the Women Are (At the 22nd Annual NY Jewish Film Festival)
Amy Stone
Dutch director – male – obsessed with tragic German artist – female.
What’s a Friend to Do?
by Nancy Sinkoff
Light up a cigarette. Or, better yet, have some charming, young male student acolyte do it for you.
Let Us Now Praise Non-Jewish Jews
Amy Stone
The jaw-dropping happy ending to the 1918 Pola Negri silent film “The Yellow Ticket” (also translated as “The Devil’s Pawn”) is that the super smart and beautiful young Jewess from Warsaw is not Jewish. She’s the love child of the distinguished medical professor whom she’s studying with in St. Petersburg.