Daniel Witkin
By Daniel Witkin
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Culture Allen, Baumbach, And More Highlights Of 55th New York Film Festival
The 55th New York Film Festival, descending on the Lincoln Center from September 28 to October 15, will include new films by Woody Allen and Noah Baumbach, in its showcase of the year’s most prominent independent and international films. The festival’s Main Slate will feature Allen’s “Wonder Wheel,” set in 1950s Coney Island, as its…
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Culture Are The Safdie Brothers The Next Great New York Filmmakers?
The most memorable images of “Good Time,” the new film by brothers and co-directors Josh and Benny Safdie, are those of its protagonist Constantine “Connie” Nikas (Robert Pattinson) in desperate, unceasing motion. There’s Connie fleeing a crime scene in a convulsive sprint, there he is gliding ominously along the highways of eastern Queens in stolen…
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Culture What Became of Europe’s Nazi-Looted Libraries?
The rhombicuboctahedronal National Library of Belarus sits on the northwest edge of Minsk, elevated above the surrounding landscape like a Brutalist disco ball. Few passersby would suspect that it’s home to some of the finest Jewish libraries of pre-war Paris, housing thousands of rare volumes that once inhabited the elegant studies and drawing rooms of…
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Art Times Review of Mossad-Organized Eichmann Exhibit Sparks Right-Wing Backlash
Art critics are used to having the last word on things, so New York Times writer Jason Farago must have been surprised when his review of “Operation Finale,” an exhibition on the capture and trial of SS leader Adolf Eichmann at New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage, earned him the severe ire of the Algemeiner’s…
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