By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 6, 2020
“Incitement,” director Yaron Zilberman’s gripping, fact-based political thriller, explores the life of a young Israeli man in the two years before he assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at a rally in November 1995 celebrating the second...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 6, 2020
The Jewish Film Festival is a bit shorter this year, but it offers 12 outstanding dramas, documentaries and comedies from various countries. Some films have already appeared in St. Louis-area film festivals or theaters; others are local debuts. The annual...
BY CATE MARQUIS, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published July 9, 2020
The late, great Swiss actor Bruno Ganz plays Sigmund Freud in “The Tobacconist,” an imaginative, engrossing tale about a friendship between a teenage boy and Freud set in Vienna just before and during the Nazi invasion. This was one of the Ganz’s...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published April 30, 2020
With movie theaters having been closed for weeks, it’s been difficult to see any brand-new releases, let alone discuss them — until now. The St. Louis Jewish Film Festival, celebrating its 25th year, in partnership with IFC Films and Mean Street...
By Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published May 30, 2019
Ben Ferencz has gotten a close look at crimes against humanity over the last century. In fact, he helped to define what the phrase means by serving as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials of Nazis following World War II. And despite his familiarity with...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published May 30, 2019
Mossad, Israel’s legendary and widely admired intelligence agency, has had a long history of astonishing successes in international intrigue, including planting spies in enemy nations; using a former Nazi officer as a double agent and consciously burnishing...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published May 30, 2019
Even if you don’t know movie mogul Carl Laemmle’s name, you almost certainly know his studio’s films: “Dracula,” “Frankenstein,” “The Mummy,” “All Quiet On the Western Front,” “Imitation of Life,” “Showboat” — and...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published May 30, 2019
The taut, understated Israeli drama “Working Woman” captures the nuances, capitulation and self-blaming of sexual harassment in the workplace better than any film in recent memory. That is resonates so thoroughly with the current #MeToo movement may...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published May 30, 2019
The 24th annual St. Louis Jewish Film Festival, featuring cinematic gems highlighting Jewish themes from around the world, will begin Sunday and run through June 6 at Landmark’s Plaza Frontenac Cinema. It boasts an excellent lineup of 14 documentaries...
BY MIKE SHERWIN & ELLEN FUTTERMAN, MANAGING EDITOR & EDITOR
• Published May 22, 2019
The big chill of this past winter finally thawed, just in time for the weather — and the St. Louis arts scene — to sizzle. As the temperature heats up, so does the local entertainment scene, with literally dozens of live performances, concerts, festivals...
BY CATE MARQUIS, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published May 23, 2018
What does a film about Israeli baseball, a biopic about a beautiful, brainy Hollywood movie star, and a Hungarian film noir have in common? They are all playing at this year’s St. Louis Jewish Film Festival. The Jewish Community Center’s 23rd annual...
