Sentences with phrase «holocaust film»

Son of Saul: Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes has produced a Holocaust film here that, rather than pulling back to reveal the global - scale horror, pushed in ever more tightly on one character, to show that the horror doesn't abate when the millions of victims are boiled down to however many you can see with your own limited perspective.

The cast did not transition to English language cinema much, although ter Steege, making her debut here, did appear in the international 1990s dramas Immortal Beloved and Paradise Road and was cast in the Stanley Kubrick Holocaust film that was abandoned after Spielberg's Schindler's List materialized.

The director of the Globe - nominated Holocaust film talks to Jason Solomons about why he chose to direct Bernhard Schlink's German fable, working with Kate Winslet and his personal odyssey as a film - maker

But, as directed by the veteran Agnieszka Holland, «In Darkness» is not a typical Holocaust film.

The filmmaker, whose career took off with a very different sort of Holocaust film, 1990's Oscar - nominated Europa Europa, understands that most of these stories arrive at a point of unspeakable, incomprehensible horror.

The latest Holocaust film, «In Darkness,» feels like a disaster movie, and iconic Polish director Agnieszka Holland has steered it to a Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.

DEADLINE: Without giving anything away, we should point out that this is not — horrible word to use here — a typical Holocaust film.

Though not the definitive Holocaust film, yet it's a better look at the Holocaust than most other films and is certainly one of Spielberg's more serious and better films.

Since then, ten years later, Polanski made his own honored Holocaust film, the Best Director - winning The Pianist (2002).

This ain't a Holocaust film, we are just rattling Islamics.

But then I thought of all the holocaust films my parents made me watch as a child so I quickly blurted out: «We're Jewish.»

She is best known for her two previous Holocaust films: the 1985 Angry Harvest (Oscar nomination for Foreign Language Film) and the 1991 Europa Europa (Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay).

The full influence of Schindler's List goes far beyond the last two decades of Holocaust films, or any film centered around the genocide of a particular people for that matter, each one bringing up its own distinct yet vaguely familiar atrocities.

Holocaust films tend to be harrowing by nature but Son of Saul «s radical telephoto camerawork amplifies the effect: it individualises the despair of the protagonist while letting the wider horrors of the Holocaust fester off the frame in our imagination.

HOLOCAUST FILMS By Kent Jones How the legacy of Nazi filmmaker Veit Harlan haunts the life and work of his infamous son

Not exact matches

Prior to the task, participants had watched a film on a topic designed to induce either a neutral mindset (math), a negative mindset (the Holocaust), or a positive mindset (bloopers).

When we watched films or documentaries about the Holocaust on TV, I never saw her get weepy - eyed.

Robert Faurisson, a convicted Holocaust denier, also makes a cameo appearance in the film.

«We've seen so many films about the Holocaust — and rightly so — but not many films about this period of history,» he says.

Indeed, Shirer's viewpoint lives on at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington (where visitors are shown a film that accuses Luther of being the progenitor of Germany's National Socialism) and in the remarks of an Alan Dershowitz: «It is shocking that Luther's ignoble name is still honored rather than forever cursed by mainstream Protestant churches.»

You have met Holben's work before; he was the screenwriter for The Hiding Place, the very intelligent 1979 film about the Holocaust and Corrie Ten Boom.

As he continued to collect stories, with a small team filming the interviews, the horror of what happened during the Holocaust also grew.

Religious services, film screenings and other events are taking place up and down the country to mark Holocaust memorial day.

Relgious services, film screenings and other events are taking place up and down the country to mark Holocaust memorial day.

As far as Expelled is concerned, none of that exists and although, yes, the film does say that they give themselves, the sort of, the pretense of not blaming Darwin, you get a couple of people including Ben Stein saying «of course no one is saying Darwin cast the Holocaust,» but of course they then make every possible connection they can; and I think it's interesting that if you took out those little excuses that said, «of course no one says Darwin cast the Holocaust,» that is exactly what someone would understand from the film.

In his recent documentary film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, Ben Stein linked Darwinism to Communism, Fascism and the Holocaust.

The reality of the film seems to collapse in upon itself, keeping the viewer trapped in a holocaust of violence and degradation.

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More than twenty - five years after Shoah, Claude Lanzmann's new film reveals a little - known yet fundamental aspect of the Holocaust, and sheds light on the origins of the «Final Solution» like never before.

Steven Spielberg crafted his landmark Holocaust story Schindler's List to look like a documentary, using black - and - white film to give it a newsreel authenticity and employing Steven Zaillian's straight - forward screenplay as a template that consistently rejects melodrama and lets the barbarity speak for itself.

In an attempt to explore the topic, you might consider reading some books or watching films about the Holocaust.

Before the film was made, Spielberg had offered Holocaust survivor and director Roman Polanski the job of making the film, but Polanski declined.

The choice to feature that authentic footage doubles as a clear gesture of what the film's message and intent is and regardless of repeated references to Holocaust.

Of course, in hindsight it's hardly a stretch to make that assumption when just two years later the director gave us his magnum opus with the crushingly heartfelt Holocaust story «Schindler's List,» a film that many consider to be one of the best movies ever made about this dark hour in world history.

Perhaps the common factor in most of the documentaries, films and stories of this time is of the Holocaust itself, and the misery and suffering that befell millions at the hands of the «master race».

The film has been an easy target for those who find Spielberg's approach too upbeat or «commercial,» or condemn him for converting Holocaust sources into a well - told story.

The latest film to depict the heroics and horrors that occurred in the Holocaust, The Zookeeper's Wife is ultimately a mixed bag, but is nonetheless able to capitalize on the inherent power of its story through strong performances and honest emotion.

The Holocaust was about the sheer scale of numbers and the haunting atmosphere of the film is created with a liberal killing of the extras that never lets up.

Claude Lanzmann made a more profound film about the Holocaust in «Shoah,» but few were willing to sit through its nine hours.

Not surprisingly, this film stirred up a great deal of controversy even before it aired; some Jewish leaders and prominent Holocaust survivors worried that Hitler might come off as being sympathetic (a concern that may have dictated altering the film's title, which was to have been Hitler: The Early Years); and one of the film's producers was summarily dismissed after issuing a public statement which seemed to compare Germany's blind, unthinking allegiance to Hitler to America's rallying behind George W. Bush during the Iraq crisis.

Its narrow timeframe and juddering shootout finale notwithstanding, in fact, «' 71» calls no film to mind so much as Roman Polanski's Holocaust drama «The Pianist» in its dramatic defamiliarization of urban space, and its tight focus on a single character's sensory experience of his surroundings amid broader conflict.

What is important about this film is not that it serves as a history lesson (although it does) but that, at a time when the threat of nuclear holocaust hangs ominously in the air, it reminds us that we are, after all, human, and thus capable of the most extraordinary and wonderful achievements, simply through the use of our imagination, our will, and our sense of right.

Well, film noir literally translates as «dark film» so that means that this is really as dark as you can get outside of the Holocaust (and no, I don't wish the Coens made a comedy about the Holocaust).

Explores cloudy, discomforting realities of the Holocaust not usually addressed in such films.

It's a sorrowful film, to be sure, but it's also like nothing you've ever seen before (including Holland's own masterful Holocaust movie, Europa Europa.

As well as talking about her experiences and thoughts on the film she discusses the memoirs she has written on the period called The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow (released after the film was in pre-production, which was based on In the Sewers of Lvov by Robert Marshall).

What makes this nominee for the best - foreign - film Oscar singular among Holocaust movies is the way it characterizes the banality of life underground.

From Hungary, this year's Oscar - winning foreign film is a remarkably fresh take on the Holocaust drama.

Schindler's List is the only film about the Holocaust to win.

A UK poster has arrived online for the upcoming drama Denial along with a featurette which sees director Mick Jackson, stars Rachel Weisz and Timothy Spall, and author of Denial: Holocaust History on Trial, Deborah Lipstadt discussing the film; take a look below... Based on the acclaimed book Denial: Holocaust History on Trial, Denial recounts Deborah E. -LSB-...]