Daniel Witkin
By Daniel Witkin
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Film & TV Michael Showalter, Known For His Comedy, Discusses The Seriously Dark ‘Search Party’
Best known for the zany TV comedies “The State” and “Stella” and feel-good films “Wet Hot American Summer” and “The Big Sick,” Michael Showalter might not be the person you’d expect to find behind an ambitious new noir. Yet as producer of the TBS comedy “Search Party,” the second season of which premiered on Sunday,…
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Film & TV The Finale of ‘Nathan For You’ Is One Of The Year’s Best Films
Throughout “Finding Frances,” the movie-length finale to the fourth season of his Comedy Central show, “Nathan for You,” we see Nathan Fielder sitting in a moving car beside his septuagenarian co-star Bill Heath. Viewers of the show’s third season may remember Heath as a Bill Gates impersonator brought in to assist with a fraudulent film…
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Art ‘Invisible Walls Of Occupation’ Shows A Different Side Of Palestinian Life
In the Palestinian village of Burqah, 86% of men are employed, but 60% work unstable, part time jobs. 75% of families have five or more members, and half of such families live beneath the poverty line of $530 per month. 55% of residents expressed concerns about the Israeli military entering the village. Statistics like this…
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Film & TV Movie News: Lanzmann, ‘The Graduate,’ Louis C.K., and Mel Gibson Comes Home
As Thursday’s puckish sun rises on the horizon, the mind of man turns to film. So things have stood since time immemorial, or at least since two weeks ago, when the Forward debuted Movie Thursday. If you’re disconsolate over your inability to find movie news, analysis, and recommendations never fear: Movie Thursday will be your…
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Culture Karl Katz, Leader Of The Israel Museum, Jewish Museum And Met, Passes Away At 88
Karl Katz, whose varied career included the leadership of museums in New York and Israel as well as successful work as a film producer, died last Wednesday at the age of 88. He left his mark on a wide range of museums, including the Israel Museum, the Jewish Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art….
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Culture Movie News: Polanski, Dunham, ‘Bar Bahar,’ And The Trailer For Spielberg’s Latest
The weekend is almost upon us, so its time for Movie Thursday, that most venerable of Forward traditions. In case you’ve been living under a rock for the last 120 years – or since last week, when we debuted the feature – Movie Thursday is the day when we talk about movies: Thursday. It’s a…
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Culture Why Brandeis University Cancelled A Lenny Bruce-Inspired Play
A production of Michael Weller’s “Buyer Beware” at Brandeis University was cancelled following objections to its Lenny Bruce-inspired content, The New York Times reported on Monday. Weller, best known for his plays “Moonchildren” (1971) and “Loose Ends” (1979), also wrote the scripts for the film adaptations of “Hair” (1979) and “Ragtime” (1981). “Buyer Beware” was…
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Culture Hildebrand Gurlitt’s Art Hoard, Possibly Ill-Gotten During WWII, Makes Public Debut
This past week, over 400 works from the collection of Hildebrand Gurlitt, a German art dealer who traded in “degenerate art” on behalf of the Nazi government, went on display at Switzerland’s Kunstmuseum Bern as well as the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, Germany. Gurlitt’s 1,400 work collection, discovered in 2012, has been the subject of steady…
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