Aileen Jacobson
What it most feels like is a story about the evolution of a feminist, or at least the beginnings of that evolution.
Film News and Reviews
What it most feels like is a story about the evolution of a feminist, or at least the beginnings of that evolution.
The films discredit long-established stereotypes while puncturing the myth of a Jewish homeland equally welcoming to Jews of all ethnic backgrounds.
For those of us who track the successes for women in film, what a tour de force.
These voices undermine the mythic triumphalism of the Six-Day War.
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” is the women’s movement film we’ve been waiting for. We just didn’t know it.
How do you make a documentary about Regina Jonas, the world’s first woman rabbi, when only one photograph survives?
Dutch director – male – obsessed with tragic German artist – female.
Light up a cigarette. Or, better yet, have some charming, young male student acolyte do it for you.
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.