Film

Response · March 16, 2016
Why I Don’t Watch Holocaust Movies
By John Podhoretz
The very act of converting the Shoah into a story on film is a violation of its meaning, its force, and its evil.
Monthly Essay · March 7, 2016
That Holocaust Feeling
By Dan Kagan-Kans
The Oscar-winning new film Son of Saul drops us into the heart of Auschwitz. What’s the point?
Monthly Essay · July 6, 2015
Who Censored the Six-Day War?
By Martin Kramer
A splashy new documentary promises to expose the Israeli military's censorship of atrocities committed in the 1967 war. What it exposes is its creators' agenda.
Observation · May 21, 2015
Unknown Musicians of a Wandering Race
By Edward Rothstein
A remarkable concert reintroduces three Jewish composers who fled fascist Europe to America, where two of them pioneered a new art form—the symphonic film score.