Jewcy Review: ‘The Catcher Was a Spy’

Today on Jewcy: The true story of a Jewish baseball player sent by the United States to take out a Nazi during World War II

Israel Film Center Festival

Today on Jewcy: A look at the films showcased at the annual festival put on by the JCC Manhattan.

Brooklyn Film Festival Spotlight: Animated Jewish Shorts

Today on Jewcy: A look at three very Jewish shorts playing in Brooklyn this week.

Check Out Two Jewish Films Coming to Netflix

Today on Jewcy: June brings ‘Maktub’ and ‘To Each Her Own’

What to Watch This Weekend: The Ascent

Larisa Shepitko’s forgotten WWII classic is haunting, harrowing, and all too human

Jewcy Interviews: ‘Disobedience’

Today on Jewcy: A talk with the director of the new film about a lesbian romance in the Orthodox community.

The 1968 Forced Exodus of Polish Jewry on Film

May Day: How Polish filmakers documented and interpreted the ‘March Emigration,’ an ‘anti-Zionist’ purge in communist Warsaw 50 years ago

Jewcy Reviews: ‘To Dust’

Today on Jewcy: A look at an unexpectedly funny take on the Jewish mourning process.

Jewcy Interviews: Most Likely to Murder

Today on Jewcy: A conversation with the Jewish directors of the upcoming heavily Jewish murder-mystery comedy.

Taika Waititi is Making a Hitler Comedy

Today on Jewcy: Waititi also plans to personally play Hitler

Jewcy Exclusive: A Clip from ‘Disobedience’

Today on Jewcy: Witness a very uncomfortable homecoming.

The Making of Kubrick’s Masterpiece, ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’

Fifty years after the release of the film that changed the world, two new books look back at its transcendent genius creator

Jewcy Review: ‘Keep the Change’

Today on Jewcy: An unusual opportunity to see actors on the spectrum playing themselves.

‘Tzadeikis’: An Intimate and Fantastical Look at the Hasidic World

Today on Jewcy: A secular artist directs a Hasidic, Yiddish film.

The Forgotten World of the Badass Valeska Gert

On her 126th birthday, measuring the influence of the incomparable ‘dance performance artist’ who inspired entertainers from German Expressionism through to 1980s punk

Could This Be The First Good Entebbe Movie?

Our long national nightmare may be over

‘Foxtrot’ and Israel’s Oscar History

Today on Jewcy: A look at Israel’s history at the Academy Awards and its latest contender, ‘Foxtrot.’

‘Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story’

Today on Jewcy: A new documentary spotlights a classic actress who was also a tech pioneer.

Other Israel Film Festival Spotlight

The Pirate Captain Toledano

Today on Jewcy: A chat with the very interesting star of a new short about Jewish pirates.

Jewcy Interviews: ‘Jungle’

Today on Jewcy: A conversation with the subject and producer of the new film ‘Jungle’ starring Daniel Radcliffe as Israeli adventurer Yossi Ghinsberg.

‘The Hebrew Hammer’ is Crowdfunding a Sequel… Again

Today on Jewcy: Another chance at ‘The Hebrew Hammer vs. Hitler’

‘Call Me By Your Name’ Is Jewish

Today on Jewcy: Another side to the upcoming queer romance film.

Josh Gad on Jewish Representation in ‘Marshall’

Today on Jewcy: The actor talks about his character, a real-life lawyer who learns to embrace his Otherness.

Claude Lanzmann’s ‘Four Sisters’

Today on Jewcy: The New York Film Festival presents four new films from ‘Shoah’ director Claude Lanzmann this weekend.

We Are Family

Episode 105: Writer Annabelle Gurwitch on being her elderly mother’s drug mule; plus the creative duo behind the one-man film ‘Wrestling Jerusalem’

Frederick Wiseman Is Here

With a penetrating new film on the Public Library, the master documentary filmmaker continues his generous 50-year X-ray view of the human systems behind American democratic life

A Conversation with Eleanor Bergstein, Writer and Producer of ‘Dirty Dancing,’ on its 30th Anniversary

Why a 1987 film about 1963 still resonates in 2017

Orthodox Children Lifting Weights, Australian Jews Grappling with Their Sexuality, and Other Reasons to Visit the Kew Gardens Film Festival

For great and irreverent Jewish films, head right over to Queens

Cinema Verite

Episode 98: Film critic Jordan Hoffman on the summer’s best movies and fitness trainer-turned-shaman Stacy Berman on finding balance