How Ava Gardner found her home in a Jewish milieu
The star of 'The Barefoot Contessa' and 'Show Boat' would have turned 100 this year
The year's best Jewish films engaged with the complicated legacy of Jewish storytelling
The star of 'The Barefoot Contessa' and 'Show Boat' would have turned 100 this year
The Ukrainian President hasn’t made much of his background — but he’s happy to joke about it
Chantal Akerman's 'Jeanne Dielman' was recently enshrined by the BFI 'Sight and Sound' poll. Rightly so.
A new PBS documentary confronts what made the novelist so controversial — and so great
Noah Baumbach's adaptation of 'White Noise' is in thrall to Gen-X pop culture
In 'The Presence of Their Absence,' Fred Zaidman searches for evidence of his family's lost story
Sixty years after its premiere, Orson Welles' adaptation of Franz Kafka's 'The Trial' remains cinema's most vivid fever dream
In the Netflix reality show's second season, formerly Haredi fashion mogul Julia Haart finds that her divorce threatens her image as a powerful professional woman
'The Levys of Monticello' focuses on a Sephardic clan who, like the country's 3rd president, enslaved people
‘Queer and Frum’ explores life after coming out
100% of profits support our journalism