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Oscar Night Medley

Billy Crystal is long gone, but the Academy Awards medley need not be! The Tattler sings of 2012’s best films.

By Rachel Shukert · February 22, 2013
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Tablet Goes to the Oscars

What if Lincoln, Life of Pi, and other Academy Award-nominated films got sequels starring Jewish characters?

By Steve Brodner · February 21, 2013
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Michael Moore Aids ‘Five Broken Cameras’ Director

Controversial filmmaker Emad Burnat was detained at LAX

By Adam Chandler · February 20, 2013
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Terror and the Surveillance State on Film

Zero Dark Thirty and the Israeli documentary The Gatekeepers are up for Academy Awards. Only one should win.

By Judith Miller · February 11, 2013
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Daybreak: Iran Denies Role in Burgas Bombing

Plus Syrian Druze are joining the opposition

By Adam Chandler · February 8, 2013
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Iran, Oscar Committee Both Hate Ben Affleck

From “Argo” to “Gangster Squad,”  a celluloid news round-up

By Adam Chandler · January 11, 2013
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Israeli Documentaries Make Oscar Shortlist

‘The Gatekeepers’ and ‘Five Broken Cameras’ are being considered

By Rikki Novetsky · December 5, 2012
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Exonerating the Friedmans

Filmmaker Andrew Jarecki is trying to overturn Jesse Friedman’s 1989 Great Neck molestation conviction

By Tracy Levy · November 21, 2012
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Blackout in Tehran

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been banned from making movies for the next 20 years. Here’s how he got around the mullahs.

By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian · March 22, 2012
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Prize Fighters

Joseph Cedar’s Footnote pits a Talmudic scholar against his academic son in a tale equal parts midrash, riddle, and Israeli political tragedy

By J. Hoberman · March 5, 2012
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2 or 3 Things I Know About ‘A Separation’

The Iranian film beat the Israeli film and the Polish Holocaust film

By Liel Leibovitz · February 27, 2012
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Daybreak: U.S. Doubts Iran Bomb Program

Plus WikiLeaks makes another splash, and more in the news

By Marc Tracy · February 27, 2012
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Your Oscar Cheat Sheet

Here’s what to root for

By Marc Tracy · February 24, 2012
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Dictatorial

Sacha Baron Cohen has been warned not to commit any stunts at the Oscars. But why should he listen? It’s not as if he’ll ever win one.

By Rachel Shukert · February 24, 2012
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Out of ‘In Darkness,’ Reflection

A response to Agnieszka Holland’s Academy Award-nominated film

By Sara Ivry · February 10, 2012
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Writing Footnote

Director Joseph Cedar on Orthodox Judaism, The Social Network, and the nightmare scenario behind his latest Academy Award-nominated film

By Daphne Merkin · February 9, 2012
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Sundown: Roseanne for President

Plus high-tech Tel Aviv, Iranian threats, and more

By Marc Tracy · February 3, 2012
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Daybreak: Hopeless, Syrian Rebels Get Fiercer

Plus U.N. report refers to Gaza ‘collective punishment,’ and more in the news

By Marc Tracy · January 19, 2012
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100 Greatest Jewish Films

Day 4, Nos. 25 to 6: Meet the Parents makes intermarriage OK, Ghostbusters explores Jewish theology, and The Graduate goes just around the bend

By Tablet Magazine · December 8, 2011
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100 Greatest Jewish Films

Day 3, Nos. 50 to 26: Exodus is Zionist agitprop, The Social Network revisits the creation myth, Funny Girl is a nesting doll of Jewish womanhood

By Tablet Magazine · December 7, 2011
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100 Greatest Jewish Films

Day 2, Nos. 75 to 51: Barton Fink is the greatest Jewish noir, Heathers is a classic morality play, and Jeff Goldblum is, well, Jeff Goldblum

By Tablet Magazine · December 6, 2011
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Sundown: Daniel Pearl’s Killers Remain Free

Plus Natalie Portman probably says ‘Kennahurra,’ and more

By Marc Tracy · January 20, 2011
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Daybreak: U.S. Applies Pressure to Syrian Point

Plus Iraqi church massacre, the Tea Party (Israeli), and more in the news

By Marc Tracy · November 2, 2010
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Tablet Writer’s Film Wins Oscar!

Rakoff’s movie lands Short Film prize

By Marc Tracy · March 8, 2010
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Your Oscar Cheat Sheet

Here’s what to root for

By Marc Tracy · March 5, 2010
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With ‘Ajami’, Israeli Cinema Moves From Politics

Oscar nominee exemplifies new kind of Israeli film

By Marc Tracy · March 1, 2010
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‘Ajami’: Maybe At A Theater Near You

Where to see Israel’s Oscar nominee

By Marc Tracy · February 11, 2010
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‘A Serious Man,’ ‘Basterds,’ and ‘Ajami’ Nominated

Congrats to Tablet contributing editor David Rakoff

By Marc Tracy · February 2, 2010
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