Film
The New West Side Story Brings the Show’s Father Issues to the Fore
Director Steven Spielberg, long fixated on absent dads, interrogates this theme and other issues of patriarchy and gender roles in his cinematic take on the classic show.
Steven Spielberg
Film
How Those Who Lived Through the Holocaust Have Testified in Film
While narratives depicting the Holocaust present fixed versions of events, testimonial films tend to be more open-ended, and pose more profound questions.
Film
"Don't Fuck With the Jews" and Other Moments of Muscular Judaism on Film
Cinema’s thorny depictions of Israeli military action reflects the swift shift in Jewish identity around questions of oppression.
Film
The Museum of the Moving Image Reopens With New Programming
If you're comfortable sitting in a theater again, See It Big: The Return! presents movies that deserve to be watched on a big screen.
Art
Why a Diego Rivera Still Life Hangs in Steven Spielberg's The Post
The Cubist painting "No. 9, Nature Morte Espagnole" fits surprisingly well with themes in the Oscar-nominated film.
Opinion
Making a Film the Source of Its Own Failure
JK Keller's "Gleaning the Fifth Screen, Minority Report (screen test)" (2012) was created when he wondered if there was a way to have the film be the source of its own failure or glitch.
Opinion
The Effects of Jaws, a Classic Turns 37
Truth be told, Jaws changed things. And tomorrow the film turns 37.