(RNS) — One of these days, I will write a book on how American cinema portrays rabbis and other Jewish clergy. The basic idea of the book? The way American movies portray Jewish clergy reveals our ...

In Nathan Silver’s divinely disordered screwball “Between the Temples,” Jason Schwartzman plays a grieving cantor who, after the death of his wife, can’t sing anymore but who finds a strange kinship ...

Jason Schwartzman as Ben and Carol Kane as Carla, in Nathan Silver’s dark humor yet sweet Jewish comedy BETWEEN THE TEMPLES. Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics Jason Schwartzman plays a cantor who has ...

Sony Pictures Classics has unveiled the Between The Temples trailer, an upcoming comedy set to hit theaters on August 23, 2024. The film will star Jason Schwartzman (The Darjeeling Limited) as a ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

There are some stories that only a small sector of the population will fully relate to. Nathan Silver’s Between the Temples is the newest movie like that. Like Joel & Ethan Coen’s A Serious Man (2009) ...

A film as eccentric as its main characters, director Nathan Silver’s Between the Temples offers perennial scene stealers Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane the lead roles they’ve long deserved. He’s Ben ...

Buoyed by the unlikely chemistry between its two stars, this alternately raucous and tender 'Harold and Maude' riff is the warmest work to date from microbudget auteur Nathan Silver. We may be ...

“We think you should start seeing a doctor,” is one of the earliest lines uttered to the quiet, grieving Ben (Jason Schwartzman), and the hilarity of its layered and misunderstood meaning, “see” as in ...

Have you heard the one about the cantor who can’t sing and the retired music teacher who walk into a bar? In Nathan Silver’s thoroughly charming comedy “Between the Temples,” the only punchline to ...

Writer C. Mason Wells tells IndieWire about embracing a different script format that allowed Carol Kane and Jason Schwartzman new acting freedom. Silver and Wells’ scriptments are about 50-page prose ...

Our Summer issue cover story, Between the Temples filmmaker Nathan Silver interviewed by novelist Jonathan Lethem, is being brought out from our paywall today as the film arrives in theaters from Sony ...