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In The Last Sentence, by Swedish director Jan Troell, journalist and former theologian Torgny Segerstedt asks a variation on the old question “If a tree falls and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” If a writer protests and no one hears him, what is his ire worth? It’s 1944, […]

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Shirtless men on bicycles, male bonding, gender relations, and social unrest. In Policeman, Israeli director Nadav Lapid’s newest film, opening in select theaters on June 13, a band of special operations unit policemen, led by the patriotic and driven Yaron, contend with their own fallibility and the rupturing of Israeli society. In the opening scene, five […]

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“There are two types of people in the world. Those the sun shines on, and there are those who sell lox.” Walter “Putzel” Himmelstein is clearly one of the latter. At “30-ish,” his marriage is failing and his “forty-year plan” includes inheriting his family’s appetizing emporium, Himmelstein’s House of Lox, and then working there for 40 […]

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