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 ...
Director Jonathan Glazer’s acclaimed movie “The Zone of Interest” recently won two Oscars — for best international feature film and for sound. Steven Spielberg has declared it to be the best Holocaust ...
Listen to more stories on the Noa app. This tidy didacticism is perhaps in the nature of narrative and its need for a clean arc—and it’s a good reason the deaths of millions should never have become ...
When Scarlett Johansson first read Tory Kamen’s script, she told the Hollywood news site Deadline in an interview, “I cried, and that almost never happens.” ...
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 ...
Exposing a little-known piece of Holocaust history — the Vel' d'Hiv roundup, in which French police arrested thousands of Jews in Paris in July 1942 — Sarah's Key dutifully follows the template of ...
Decades before he died, so that he would not die there, Steven Kende fled a concentration camp where one of his jobs was “picking up pieces of people.” He hid in bushes from his German guards and ...
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