Noah Baumbach’s new Frances Ha shows the fate of a generation enamored of the nebbishy narcissist

Celebrating the King of Swing

The Israeli clarinetist continues to turn heads

A photographer sets up film stills at their original locations

A thorough new biography chronicles the rise and fall of the big, Jewish self-destructive funnyman

The actor/writer/director talks to Jewcy about anxiety and Hebrew School

This might be the worst 45 minutes of your life

Printable Larry David and Woody Allen flu masks

David Krakauer links the mediums

Remembering a brilliant, generous friend

Plus over a thousand Palestinians displaced last year, and more

The funny, sad Dark Horse adds a creepy loser in love to the director’s catalog of misanthropes

Plus among the Hasidim undercover and in drag, and more

Accused rapist, a Jew, decries ‘age-old witch hunt of a minority group’

Shivah Stars

Let the anti-Semitic conspiracy-mongering commence!

In Damsels in Distress, preppy auteur Whit Stillman fetishizes a world of limits, quite contrary to the Jewish director to whom he’s often compared

Plus Bibi spares the Hebron house-hunters, and more

A writer born in the capital of Holocaust denial tours the Jewish state as the cold war between Iran and Israel is about to get hot

Allen to bring cinema to its peak.

While American Jews cultivate a hyphenated identity, French Jews like to make themselves wholly French. Do we still share a cultural language?

Here’s what to root for

Rick Santorum may not like it, but it has its benefits

Woody Allen and Dick Cavett discuss their childhoods

Plus the Jewish EGOTs, and more

Israeli film ‘Footnote,’ Jonah Hill, Woody Allen among nominees

What makes a Jewish film? To open our 100 Greatest Jewish Films week, critics A.O. Scott and Jody Rosen talk about movies from Abie’s Irish Rose to Zelig.

Schindler’s List is astoundingly stupid, Inglourious Basterds is cartoonishly potent, and more in our list of the greatest Jewish movies of all time

And I’m afraid to tell

Plus, when Brody met Allen, biking through Tel Aviv, and more