Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s surreal film collage was a cause celebre when it reached the United States in 1980. It’s a fascinating contrast with current Holocaust dramas.
Category: Holocaust and the Nazi Era
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Menachem Daum, Filmmaker Who Explored the World of Hasidim, Dies at 77
His acclaimed documentary, “A Life Apart,” presented a complex portrait of a religious group usually depicted as somber and impenetrable.
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‘Occupied City’ Review: Mapping the Holocaust, Street by Street
In his four-and-half-hour documentary, the British director Steve McQueen charts the fate of Amsterdam’s Jewish population during the Nazi occupation.
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In Steve McQueen’s ‘Occupied City,’ a Marriage of Art and History
Steve McQueen collaborated with his wife Bianca Stigter to make “Occupied City,” a four-hour documentary that brings Amsterdam’s World War II history into the present day.
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How Do You Make a Movie About the Holocaust?
With “The Zone of Interest,” Jonathan Glazer is just the latest director to confront the problem.
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Michel Ciment, Eminent French Film Critic, Is Dead at 85
He helped define cinema as high art for generations of moviegoers and filmmakers in France and beyond, even if he irked some of them with his passion for Hollywood.
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‘The Zone of Interest’ Review: A Hollow Holocaust
Jonathan Glazer has made a hollow, self-aggrandizing art-film exercise set in Auschwitz during the Holocaust.
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Ava DuVernay and Other Directors Rethink Holocaust Films
Tragic tellings of the Shoah are all too common. The directors of “The Zone of Interest,” “Origin” and “Occupied City” refuse to let it live in the past.
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘To My Surprise, This Charming Man Began to Cry’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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U.S. Open Spectator Is Removed from After Remark Associated With Nazis
Alexander Zverev, from Germany, told the umpire that the man had said the phrase. He was escorted out after the “disparaging remark,” a spokesman said.
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U.S. Open Spectator Is Removed from After Remark Associated With Nazis
Alexander Zverev, from Germany, told the umpire that the man had said the phrase. He was escorted out after the “disparaging remark,” a spokesman said.
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Nechama Tec, Polish Holocaust Survivor and Scholar, Dies at 92
She wrote about heroic Jewish resisters in her book “Defiance,” which was later made into a film starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber.