JEWS excavates a lost world of manners and ritual in home movies shot by several Chicago families from the 1920s through the 1940s. Much as in similar found footage soliloquies by Péter Forgács, Jay Rosenblatt and Ken Jacobs, director Roger Deutsch wrings unexpected pathos from mundane traces of the past. Children mug for the camera with dances of the day, upright mothers march their strollers up the avenue, men smoke, the family gathers around the table to light the candles. The bare title cannot help but raise the specter of contemporaneous events in Europe, lending an extra degree of urgency to the film's meditation on disappearance. - Max Goldberg
The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat
1896
7.1/10
Find Fix Finish
2017
0/10
The History of White People in America: Volume II
1986
9/10
A Documentary on the Making of 'Gore Vidal's Caligula'
1981
2/10
Mira-futuro
2022
0/10
High Cities of Bone
2017
6.3/10
Wir Weltmeister – ein Fußballmärchen
2006
7/10
Accidental Anarchist
2017
6.9/10
1997: The Birth of the Camera Phone
2017
7.5/10
Fires of Kuwait
1992
7.5/10
Athene
1995
6/10
Spotlight on Merna
2016
10/10
Your Very Personal Poetry
1982
0/10
The Day Hitler Died
2015
6.773/10
Nikola Tesla: The Genius Who Lit the World
1994
7.4/10
Bill Reid
1979
0/10
Paris ou l’utopie perdue
2018
0/10
Trust Me
2024
10/10
Eurotrauma: Skinny Puppy Live in Europe 1986
2005
0/10
Fazzoletti di terra
1963
0/10
