Late in Life: Jonathan Lethem in Conversation with Between the Temples‘s Nathan Silver
Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane in Between the Temples
In Between the Temples, Jason Schwartzman, looking suddenly on the verge of middle age, and with a disconcerting new depth to his eyes, plays a cantor unable to find his singing voice. “The cantor who can’t” might be the hook for any number of lively (or annoying) comedies set in a synagogue, but Nathan Silver has delivered not only the version I’d actually want, but one I could never have believed possible—one of the best films of his busy early career, one of the best romantic comedies in decades. Schwartzman’s romantic partner-in-crime—his counterpart, his frenemy, his fateful nemesis, in the […]