James Mottram

James Mottram is a film journalist and author. He's written several books on film including The Making of Dunkirk, published in the UK by Titan

Latest from James Mottram

The Jewish answer to Fleabag’s ‘hot priest’: Erin Foster on her new Netflix show Nobody Wants This

The actor and writer discusses casting Adam Brody as the ‘hot rabbi’ for her new Netflix rom-com and drawing from her personal experience as a Jewish convert

6 min read

In the dock: Arieh Worthalter as Pierre Goldman in a scene from The Goldman Case

The Goldman Case: The new French courtroom drama that puts Jewishness on trial

4 min read

Screen shot: the cast of Between the Temples Photo: Getty

The Jewish rom-com that tells you everything you ever wanted to know about platonic love

6 min read

(Stephen) Fry’s delight: his new film with Lena Dunham

6 min read

A boy – now 93 – tells his story of incredible survival hiding from the Nazis in the forest

Now a new film is telling Maxwell Smart’s story

6 min read

May 23, 2024 08:43

Maxwell Smart on set with the child actors

How my son’s terminal cancer inspired me to convert to Judaism

Kit Vincent’s film ‘Red Herring’ tracks his family’s devastation after they were told he was terminally ill. His father tells our writer about how life has moved on since

5 min read

May 3, 2024 10:24

Close bond: Lawrence and Kit Vincent in Red Herring

The shameful tale of the Jewish boy kidnapped by the Catholic church

I meet the director of a new film about a six-year-old snatched from his family – after he’d been baptised by the family maid

6 min read

April 26, 2024 11:22

Wrenched away: Enea Sala as six-year-old Edgardo Mortara in the film Kidnapped

Amy Winehouse biopic was the inevitable next step in the commercialisation of the vulnerable star

It’s hard not to think that this film is the latest addition to the cottage industry that sprung up around the late songwriter

5 min read

April 10, 2024 11:43

Marisa Abela stars as Amy Winehouse in Sam Taylor-Johnson's new biopic on the star, Back to Black

Famed filmmaker Ethan Coen on why he’s on a lesbian road trip

He’s made his new screwball romantic comedy with his wife and long-time editor, but if you think this means broiges with brother Joel, you’re wrong

7 min read

March 12, 2024 17:18

Wanderlust: Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathanstar as Jamie and Marian in Drive-Away Dolls Credit: Working Title / Focus Features

Legacy of a hero: making the new feature film about the British man who saved 669 Jewish children from the Nazis

James Mottram meets the director of One Life, and one of the refugees rescued by Nicholas Winton

7 min read

December 20, 2023 17:49

Anthony Hopkins plays Nicholas Winton in the eagerly awaited Second World War drama

How a 70-year-old widower gets embroiled in his daughter’s marital problems

New film My Daughter My Love is spearheaded by Israeli writer-director Eitan Green

2 min read

November 17, 2023 13:42

How a 70-year-old widower gets embroiled in his daughter’s marital problems

Exploring a young man's fear of undertaking national service in IDF

Matan Yair's new movie A Room of his Own follows a young man facing his mandatory spell in the army

2 min read

November 17, 2023 12:09

Exploring a young man's fear of undertaking national service in IDF

'We need to talk about Jewface' says Dame Helen Mirren

The actor is starring in a new biopic about Golda Meir, and says she 'absolutely believes' in Israel

7 min read

September 27, 2023 12:03

'We need to talk about Jewface' says Dame Helen Mirren

Parisian film director's new film is a love letter to her wounded city

Alice Winocour tells of her inherited Jewish trauma and her new film on the 2015 Paris terror attacks

4 min read

August 3, 2023 15:23

Parisian film director's new film is a love letter to her wounded city

‘Jewface’ talk is dangerous, says director of new Mirren film Golda

Guy Nattiv said that Golda Meir's family suggested Mirren take the role

1 min read

February 23, 2023 09:45

‘Jewface’ talk is dangerous, says director of new Mirren film Golda

Supergirl for ever: actress Helen Slater talks myths and fame

As a teenager, she played the title role in the 1984 movie Supergirl. Now Helen explains why she is going back to college

4 min read

October 20, 2022 13:24

Supergirl for ever: actress Helen Slater talks myths and fame

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James Mottram

Latest from James Mottram

The Jewish answer to Fleabag’s ‘hot priest’: Erin Foster on her new Netflix show Nobody Wants This

The Goldman Case: The new French courtroom drama that puts Jewishness on trial

The Jewish rom-com that tells you everything you ever wanted to know about platonic love

(Stephen) Fry’s delight: his new film with Lena Dunham

More from James Mottram

A boy – now 93 – tells his story of incredible survival hiding from the Nazis in the forest

How my son’s terminal cancer inspired me to convert to Judaism

The shameful tale of the Jewish boy kidnapped by the Catholic church

Amy Winehouse biopic was the inevitable next step in the commercialisation of the vulnerable star

Famed filmmaker Ethan Coen on why he’s on a lesbian road trip

Legacy of a hero: making the new feature film about the British man who saved 669 Jewish children from the Nazis

How a 70-year-old widower gets embroiled in his daughter’s marital problems

Exploring a young man's fear of undertaking national service in IDF

'We need to talk about Jewface' says Dame Helen Mirren

Parisian film director's new film is a love letter to her wounded city

‘Jewface’ talk is dangerous, says director of new Mirren film Golda

Supergirl for ever: actress Helen Slater talks myths and fame