Tag Archives: Steven Spielberg

Spielberg’s star-studded autobiography is its acclaimed director’s genesis story “full of references Diaspora Jews will love”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Spielberg’s very Jewish memoir film ‘The Fabelmans’ is one of the best of his career Jordan Hoffman November 10, 2022 …“The Fabelmans,” in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on November 11, followed by the rest … Continue reading

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How and why Hollywood distorts history (Bridge of Spies, The Imitation Game, Munich and others)

COMMENTARY Bridge of Lies by Kyle Smith December 14, 2015 Midway through Steven Spielberg’s Cold War picture Bridge of Spies, the upstanding lawyer Jim Donovan (Tom Hanks) suffers a shocking attack when his Brooklyn house is raked with gunfire. Donovan … Continue reading

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Munich….in the context of Paris last week

STEYN ONLINE by Mark Steyn January 10, 2015 At the end of a week of bloodbaths and hostage sieges, I went looking for something appropriate for our Saturday movie date, and settled on a nine-year-old Spielberg movie about the massacre … Continue reading

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Ahead of film, nephew recalls ‘uncle-priest’ at heart of 1858 scandal

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Rossella Tercatin December 16, 2014 The shocking kidnapping of an Italian Jewish boy secretly baptized by a Catholic servant over 150 years ago will soon be a Spielberg production…dozens of articles, books, pieces of arts and … Continue reading

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