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 ...

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 ...

An Oscar-nominated Israeli movie was the highest-grossing film in America over the weekend — at least among those playing on just two screens. “Footnote,” the Jerusalem-set drama we raved about last ...

Footnote is brainy filmmaking of the highest level — a motion picture that is as difficult to pigeonhole as it is easy to enjoy. The fourth work by Israeli writer-director Joseph Cedar, Footnote took ...

“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, ...

Two men, one in a suit and the other in a sweater, sit side by side in folding chairs in a small auditorium. They are listening to an unseen speaker introducing a new inductee to the Israel Academy of ...

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 ...