By Anne Brodie Jack Kerouac, his landmark book On the Road and the Beat era came before me, and was not a topic of conversation. But his legacy roars back to life in Ebs Burnough’s impressive doc Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of a Nation, a well-made collage of reminiscences those who knew him and …
Two Unknown Holocaust Stories, Conversion Camp, Rooting for the Baddie and the Greatest Star Ever?
Vadim Perelman's WWII slow-burn Persian Lessons looks at an event that couldn't possibly be true. Set in 1942 in a Nazi Germany concentration camp and based on real events it's the story of a rabbi's son who goes to dizzying extremes to save his life; every moment that passes without the truth being …