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Oscar nominee ‘Ida’ traces void left by Poland’s murdered Jews

Jewish Journal February 18, 2015

For the past few decades, Holocaust films have been common — and often victorious — fare at the Academy Awards.

P.T. Anderson’s Inherent Vice

Jewish Journal February 17, 2015

Has Hollywood’s foremost interpreter of California lost his touch?

For ‘Aya,’ a long journey from Israel to the Oscars

Jewish Journal February 17, 2015

The idea for “Aya” began with a daydream: What if you were waiting for someone at the airport and instead you picked up a total stranger? What then?

Hollywood’s necessary not-niceness

Marty Kaplan February 17, 2015

The billion people who will watch the 2015 Academy Awards got a great gift last week from Amy Pascal, the recently fired co-chair of Sony Pictures, who said this to Tina Brown at a Women in the World conference in San Francisco:

‘Foxcatcher’: Why it took 7 years to complete

Jonathan Maseng February 9, 2015

For Hollywood screenwriters, having your work rewritten is a fact of life, although it goes without saying that most writers hate it.

The rabbi missing from ‘Selma’

Jewish Journal January 18, 2015

Ava DuVernay\’s film \”Selma\” is a remarkable depiction of a key moment in the civil rights movement, highlighting the strategic savvy, relentless courage, and human frailties of Rev. Martin Luther King, his inner circle of advisors, local grassroots activists, and the many other crusaders who traveled to this rural town to draw attention to the need for a voting rights bill in 1965.