The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Tuesday that Joseph Cedar’s movie “Footnote” is one of five nominees chosen for Best Foreign Language film. The winner will be announced in ...

Israel’s place at the Oscars will remain, at least for now, as just a footnote. The country’s losing streak at the Academy Awards continued Sunday night as Iranian film “A Separation” beat out local ...

“Footnote” failed to win Israel’s first Academy Award, coming up short in the best foreign-language film category. The film, directed and written by Joseph Cedar, was beaten out by the Iranian entry, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Outside of its native Israel, where it won the equivalent of nine Oscars, the well-intentioned family dramedy “Footnote” is likely to be just that – a footnote. While Hebrew scholars may dig Joseph ...

The first joke in Footnote arrives before the movie even begins. The curtains open to their maximum width, signaling that this is a widescreen movie — a saga of feuding Talmudic scholars, shot in the ...

Part text-based detective story, part searing family drama about a bitter father-son relationship, Footnote is a film that can be read many ways. Set in the insular community of Talmudic scholars, the ...