After he fled the Nazis, the 'Some Like it Hot' filmmaker was the genius behind Marilyn Monroe's famous billowing dress and pairing Jack Lemmon with Walter Matthau

Discussing the recent stage adaptation of the Disney Exodus classic, his career and Jewish roots, Stephen Schwartz says he 'didn’t really see it' when Spielberg first tapped him

The canonical 1974 western satire is rife with Jewish humor -- and, between the yucks, a few moral lessons on empathy and unity as well

From the star-studded cast to the epic cinematic presentation, the animated film tells the Exodus story entertainingly -- and in a way kids will never forget

In a movie now streaming on Amazon Prime, Israeli-born Hanan Harchol portrays the joys and failures of his early days teaching at a rough-and-tumble urban public school

'Resistance,' starring Jesse Eisenberg, available on-demand from March 27; based on Jewish-French clown's real-life heroics shepherding kids for the underground during Holocaust

Rebecca Zlotowski's effortlessly light 'An Easy Girl' has a lot to say about class struggles and femininity in the 'post-#MeToo' environment

Despite Hollywood success and new friendship with Billy Crystal formed on the set of indie flick 'Standing Up, Falling Down,' funnyman admits he still worries about his next gig

Director, wanted in US over child rape in 1970s, to skip ceremony in which his film about anti-Semitic affair is the favorite, saying 'we know how this evening will unfold already'

Colum McCann's upcoming 'Apeirogon' tells story of unlikely friendship between Israeli, Palestinian fathers who both lost daughters to bloodshed