James Mottram is a film journalist and author. He's written several books on film including The Making of Dunkirk, published in the UK by Titan.
The actor and writer discusses casting Adam Brody as the ‘hot rabbi’ for her new Netflix rom-com and drawing from her personal experience as a Jewish convert
Cédric Kahn on his reconstruction of the 1976 trial of leftist Pierre Goldman – and the French judicial system’s prejudice against Jews
I talk to writer-director Nathan Silver about his new film Between the Temples, featuring a cantor who’s losing his voice and faith until his old teacher saves him
Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham on how they connected with their Jewishness while shooting a road movie in Poland
Now a new film is telling Maxwell Smart’s story
Kit Vincent’s film ‘Red Herring’ tracks his family’s devastation after they were told he was terminally ill. His father tells our writer about how life has moved on since
I meet the director of a new film about a six-year-old snatched from his family – after he’d been baptised by the family maid
It’s hard not to think that this film is the latest addition to the cottage industry that sprung up around the late songwriter
He’s made his new screwball romantic comedy with his wife and long-time editor, but if you think this means broiges with brother Joel, you’re wrong
James Mottram meets the director of One Life, and one of the refugees rescued by Nicholas Winton
New film My Daughter My Love is spearheaded by Israeli writer-director Eitan Green
Matan Yair's new movie A Room of his Own follows a young man facing his mandatory spell in the army
The actor is starring in a new biopic about Golda Meir, and says she 'absolutely believes' in Israel
Alice Winocour tells of her inherited Jewish trauma and her new film on the 2015 Paris terror attacks
Guy Nattiv said that Golda Meir's family suggested Mirren take the role
As a teenager, she played the title role in the 1984 movie Supergirl. Now Helen explains why she is going back to college
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