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  • Billy Bob Thornton and Tony Cox in Bad Santa.(Miramax via Facebook)
    Billy Bob Thornton and Tony Cox in Bad Santa.(Miramax via Facebook)
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    All-Star Team of Jews Defiles Christmas in Billy Bob Thornton’s ‘Bad Santa’

    How the Coen brothers and Terry Zwigoff helped create a holiday classic that angers gentiles

    byAdam Chandler
  • David Cronenberg at BMC Lab in TIFF Bell Lightbox.(Canadian Film Centre. Photo by George Pimentel.)
    David Cronenberg at BMC Lab in TIFF Bell Lightbox.(Canadian Film Centre. Photo by George Pimentel.)
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    Why Directors Are Writing Novels Instead of Making Movies

    Are David Cronenberg, Ethan Coen, and others honing their artistic vision through fiction, or just more free to be gross there?

    bySaul Austerlitz
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    The Five Best Jewish Christmas Films

    Die Hard, Scrooged, Trading Places, and more

    byAdam Chandler
  • F. Murray Abraham as Dar Adal on Homeland. (IMDb)
    F. Murray Abraham as Dar Adal on Homeland. (IMDb)
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    F. Murray Abraham Talks ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’

    The actor on 1960s New York, the Coen Brothers, and, of course, Homeland

    byStephanie Butnick
  • Oscar Isaac in Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis.
    Oscar Isaac in Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis.
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    Coen Bros. Torture Another Schlemiel While Imagining They Are Dylan’s True Heirs

    ‘Inside Llewyn Davis,’ opening December 6, pits the existential victim against the very possibility of Jewish success

    byJ. Hoberman
  • Comedian Jerry Lewis with actor Kevin Pollak before the screening of "Max Rose" at the Cannes Film Festival on May 23, 2013.(Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Images)
    Comedian Jerry Lewis with actor Kevin Pollak before the screening of "Max Rose" at the Cannes Film Festival on May 23, 2013.(Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Big Jew-Off at Cannes

    European cineastes clash with American ironists and shlock-meisters at the film-world’s biggest hoedown

    byVladislav Davidzon
  • Woody Allen playing the clarinet.(Elke Selzle/Getty Images)
    Woody Allen playing the clarinet.(Elke Selzle/Getty Images)
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    The Jewiest Thing That’s Ever Been Jewed

    Broadway! Woody! Elaine May! A Coen brother!

    byMarc Tracy
  • Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network.(IMDB)
    Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network.(IMDB)
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    Your Oscar Cheat Sheet

    Whom to root for Sunday night

    byAllison Hoffman
  • A scene from A Serious Man.(Focus Features)
    A scene from A Serious Man.(Focus Features)
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    Your Oscar Cheat Sheet

    Here’s what to root for

    byMarc Tracy
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