The year was also dominated by “Jeopardy!” hosting drama, with Jewish actress/presenter Mayim Bialik eventually being crowned co-host of the long-running quiz show through 2022… after a former executive producer’s attempts to finagle the job for himself blew up in his face. The show spawned a new tabloid feeding frenzy one of Haart’s daughters split from her husband, starting an internet obsession.
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The biggest Jewish TV phenomenon of the year was the Netflix reality series “My Unorthodox Life,” following the controversial exploits of “ex-Orthodox” fashion designer Julia Haart and her family Haart pushed back against her critics in our interview with her. The summer musical “In The Heights” told the stories of Dominican residents of a historically Jewish New York neighborhood. In the world of Holocaust cinema, the documentary “Final Account” interviewed elderly former Nazis about their memories of the Third Reich the documentary “Love It Was Not” depicted the unsettling relationship between a Jewish prisoner of Auschwitz and her SS guard the Slovakian drama “The Auschwitz Report” told the story of two camp escapees who tried to warn the world about the horrors inside the documentary “The Meaning Of Hitler” tried to break down fascism’s appeal in the modern age and the documentary “Speer Goes To Hollywood” explored the lifelong denialism of Hitler’s architect (though its methods have been criticized).
shone brightly this year, with the disability family dramas “Asia” and “Here We Are” melancholy comedy “Golden Voices” and intergenerational, cross-continental LGBT+ drama “Sublet.”Īs Israel and Gaza burned this summer and national dialogue around the conflict turned ugly, Israeli filmmaker Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s documentary “The Viewing Booth” explored how one American Jew’s preconceived views about the conflict impacted her interpretation of video footage from the region. “Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn” depicts Romanian citizens angry over a teacher’s private transgressions, but blind to their own ignorance about how their country has historically treated Jews. The top prize-winner at this year’s Berlin Film Festival was an angry satire about sex tapes, COVID, history education and antisemitism. Director Keith Thomas spoke to JTA about how the film’s Talmudic terrors came together.Ī filmed version of the smash-hit Broadway musical “Come From Away,” a September 11 story created by Jews and featuring Jewish themes, premiered on Apple TV+ for the 20-year-anniversary of the attacks.Ī real-life Jewish gangster gets his due – and is played by Harvey Keitel – in “Lansky.”
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“The Vigil” is a horror movie set in the Orthodox community, focusing on the mazzik, a Biblical demon.
Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch,” a celebration of midcentury print journalism and Francophilia rendered in the filmmaker’s distinctive style, included its fair share of nods to real-life Jewish intellectuals – and an explicitly Jewish character. Three major Oscar contenders this year have Jewish ties: Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner’s remake of “West Side Story” once again poses the question of who should make the musical “Licorice Pizza” stars Jewish rock musician Alana Haim as a young Jewish aspiring actress in the 1970s and “The Tragedy of Macbeth” marks the solo directing debut for Joel Coen, one-half of the greatest Jewish filmmaking duo of the modern era. Levine, it was – in my estimation – the best Jewish movie of the year. “Minyan,” directed by Eric Steel, was another fresh take on a Jewish story: a queer coming-of-age tale set among the Soviet Jewish refugee communities of 1980s Brighton Beach. She was also one of The New York Jewish Week’s 36 Under. Our sister site Hey Alma interviewed Seligman about the film last year.
The future cult hit has been nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for best microbudget feature of the year, and successfully launched the career of its 26-year-old writer-director. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency covered every twist and turn that kept us entertained and enlightened during this difficult year.Ī bold new voice in Jewish filmmaking emerged this spring: Emma Seligman’s independent dark comedy “Shiva Baby” follows a drifting college student who attends a shiva along with her clueless family, disapproving strangers, bitter ex-girlfriend … and sugar daddy. A new reality-TV sensation, a raunchy indie-film spin on shivas and a rare glimpse into Turkey’s Jewish community made a big splash in 2021, while elsewhere, old favorites (“Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Jeopardy!,” “West Side Story”) made big impacts in the Jewish world. JEWISH POP-CULTURE had quite the “Unorthodox” year.
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