This Ordinary Thing' documents the stories of the gentiles who hid, and saved, their Jewish friends and neighbors during the ...
The Academy’s tendency to award trophies to Holocaust movies has long been whispered about — and even occasionally joked about by cheeky comedians. In 2009, shortly after Kate Winslet won a Golden ...
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. By Esther Zuckerman In the British comedy ...
(RNS) — If you are like me, you have seen more than your fair share of movies about the Holocaust. Each cinematic offering is powerful and devastating. Each film leaves its moral and spiritual ...
He Zoomed in for the premiere of his new film, which embeds issues of trauma and identity in an odd-couple buddy comedy. By Steven Zeitchik Senior Editor, Technology and Politics If humanity were to ...
TORONTO — Noah Morse, a 26-year-old filmmaker, was coming off a full-day shift volunteering at the Telluride Film Festival in early September when he decided he needed to see the 10 p.m. showing of ...
Although some of the most famous works about the Holocaust appear in other media — “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,” for example, among books and Steven Spielberg‘s “Schindler’s List” in films — ...
More than five decades ago, comedian Jerry Lewis directed and starred in The Day the Clown Cried, a film about a German circus clown who is promised freedom if he leads Jewish children to their deaths ...
Holocaust survivor David Schaecter, 94, wrote an open letter following the divisive Academy Awards speech from the 'Zone of Interest' filmmaker. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief “I watched in ...
This is the second part of a three-part series about how the Holocaust has been depicted in cinema. You can read part one, about witness narratives, here. Most testimonial Holocaust films can be ...