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Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, The Weeknd returns with an epic sixth LP, Blackpink’s Jennie enlists Dominic Fike to play her toxic counterpart, and Jessie Reyez croons about her dedicated love in a dazzling ballad. Plus, new music from Julian Baker and Torres, Sasami, Clairo, and Zach Bryan.

The Weeknd, “Cry For Me” (YouTube)

Jennie, Dominic Fike, “Love Hangover” (YouTube)

Jessie Reyez, “Goliath” (YouTube)

Sasami feat. Clairo, “In Love with a Memory” (YouTube)

Julien Baker,...

The Jewish Film Institute's new VOD platform, Jfi On Demand, includes festival favorites from the Sfjff archives over the past three decades, including "5 Days" by Yoav Shamir, "Aliyah" by Elie Wajeman, "Out in the Dark" by Michael Mayer, "Forgiveness" by Udi Aloni, "Live and Become" by Radu Mihaileanu and more. The 35th edition of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival returns to the Bay Area this year from July 23 to August 9, 2015 at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco, the CinéArts Theatre in Palo Alto, the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael, The California Theatre in Berkeley, and the Lakeside Theater in Oakland. Since 1981, the festival has screened over 1500 films. Read More: Noir City and Jewish Film Festival Compete for San Francisco Cinephiles To view all 35 film titles on Jfi On Demand, visit jewishfilminstitute.org.

Playwright Tony Kushner, producer Marcy Carsey, and casting director Ellen Chenoweth will be honored by the Casting Society of America at this year's Artios Awards. The nominees for this year's awards—to be presented Nov. 1 in dual ceremonies at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles and the American Airlines Theatre in New York—were announced today. Kushner, Carsey, and Chenoweth will be presented with special awards. The complete list of nominees follows.Big budget feature, drama"Avatar," Margery Simkin and Mali Finn (initial casting)"Inglourious Basterds," Johanna Ray and Jenny Jue"Nine," Francine Maisler"Sherlock Holmes," Reg Poerscout-Edgerton"Shutter Island," Ellen Lewis and Carolyn Pickman (location casting)Big budget feature, comedy"Couples Retreat," Sarah Halley Finn and Randi Hiller"Date Night," Donna Isaacson"Julie and Julia," Francine Maisler"The Proposal," Amanda Mackey Johnson, Cathy Sandrich Gelfond, and Angela Peri (location casting)"Valentine's Day," Deborah Aquila and Tricia WoodFeature,...

A good-looking American-Israeli named David returns to Israel to join the army. While on patrol, he accidentally kills a Palestinian girl.

The trauma lands him in an Israeli mental hospital filled with Holocaust survivors and built on the site of a village where Israeli troops massacred 100 Palestinians in 1948.

With the help of an experimental drug, David's father brings him back to New York, where he falls for a Palestinian woman with a young daughter. She ditches him when she learns he was an Israeli soldier.

The story sounds straightforward enough, but the writer-

director, Udi Aloni, loses his way.

The result is...

From the opening sequences, in which crackpot mental-hospital patient Moni Moshonov holds a skull aloft and quotes extensively from Hamlet while a catatonic soldier slumps against a tree in the background, Forgiveness feels like a high-concept stage play, the kind of well-meant but pretentious project where grand themes are worked out in a claustrophobic setting among a small cast. While Israeli-born director Udi Aloni (Local Angel) opens up the settings to include location shooting in New York City and Israel, and operates with a complicated timeline, he never shakes that feeling of a small, crowded stage. Itay Tiran plays the son of Auschwitz survivor Michael Sarne, whose meek mixed guilt and pride in his heritage drives Tiran to a defiantly single-minded Zionism: He picks a fight at a Middle East peace rally, gets the star of David tattooed on his chest, moves to Israel to enlist in the army,...

By Neil Pedley

Some might be quick to dismiss this week as part of the post-summer lull, but others might see it as a week of films that have been years in the making . it's been 13 since the now re-paired Robert De Niro and Al Pacino were last on screen together, while Diane English's remake of "The Women" took 12 to make it to the big screen, and the Flaming Lips' "Christmas on Mars" spent a mere seven years in the offing. As for fans of the Coen brothers, it only seems like forever since "No Country for Old Men."

"Able Danger"

Another week, another 9/11 conspiracy film, this one actually getting released on the seventh anniversary of the tragedy. Loosely inspired by "The Maltese Falcon," this Dv noir offers something of a date movie for far-left conspiracy theorists who take issue with perceived abuse of power on the part of our government.

The audience awards at the Woodstock Film Festival, which wrapped Sunday in Woodstock, N.Y., resulted in a pair of ties. The award for best narrative feature went to Susanne Bier's After the Wedding and Udi Aloni's Forgiveness, and the award for best documentary feature went to Barbara Kopple's Shut Up & Sing and Rachel Libert's Beyond Conviction. The audiences at the Mill Valley Film Festival, which wrapped Sunday in California, were more decisive. They voted awards to Phillip Noyce's Catch a Fire as best dramatic feature, Amy Berg's Deliver Us From Evil as best feature-length docu and Wolfgang Murnberger's Lapislazuli: In the Eye of the Bear as best children's film.