Meryl streep

Israel's Joseph Cedar to direct Meryl Streep and Sigourney Weaver in new film 'Useful Idiots'

Cedar’s films have won major prizes at international film festivals, including Cannes and the Berlinale.

|ByHANNAH BROWN
Joseph Cedar, when he won the Silver Bear Award at the Berlinale for the film Beaufort.
Meryl Streep in talks to voice female Lion of Judah in Greta Gerwig's 'The Chronicles of Narnia'.

Meryl Streep in talks to voice female Lion of Judah in Greta Gerwig's 'The Chronicles of Narnia'

Gerwig's adaptation will focus on 'The Magician's Nephew', the first chronological story in the Narnia universe.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A SCENE from ‘The Battle for Sderot.’

TV week: New doc. on Sderot police station, Springsteen on Disney+

The documentary makers created a meticulously detailed, dollhouse-size model to tell the story of the bombed Sderot police station after October 7.

|ByHANNAH BROWN
ISRAEL AMBASSADOR to Egypt Amira Oron and Rabbi Joshua Berman.

Grapevine February 2, 2022: Maintaining tradition

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

Nobel, Pulitzer and Tony winners call for release of Iranian writers

A letter, addressed to Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, called for the release of Baktash Abtin, Keyvan Bajan, and Reza Khandan Mahabadi, imprisoned in Iran for their writing.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Iranian Americans rally against Ebrahim Raisi outside the United Nations headquarters during the 76th Session of the U.N. General Assembly, in New York, US, September 21, 2021.

Sweetheart, get me a newspaper movie

Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Post,’ which opens throughout Israel on Thursday, is part of a long tradition of exhilarating newspaper films.

JANUARY 9, 2018ByHANNAH BROWN
‘THE POST’ stars Meryl Streep as ‘Washington Post’ publisher Kay Graham and Tom Hanks as editor Ben Bradlee, and the triumph the movie celebrates is the ‘Post’ decision to publish the Pentagon Papers.

How did Jewish talent fare at the Golden Globes?

None of the dozen Jewish nominees, including such respected actors as Natalie Portman, Liev Schreiber or Jonah Hill, made it to the winner’s podium.

JANUARY 9, 2017ByJTA
Actress Isabelle Huppert poses backstage with her award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama for her role in "Elle," at the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards.