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5 days ago · Napalm (2017) Lanzmann's dedication to preserving historical memory has had a lasting impact on documentary filmmaking and Holocaust studies. His work extends beyond filmmaking; it is a vigilant reminder of the past. Claude Lanzmann passed away on July 5, 2018, in Paris at the age of 92. His life's work remains a vital part of Holocaust ...
5 days ago · Claude Lanzmann, director of Shoah (1985), the nine-and-a-half hours long and eleven years in-the-making documentary about the Holocaust, shared similar sentiments, suggesting it was almost impossible to produce a film that would do justice to the violence and unprecedented nature of the mass murder committed by the Nazis and their accomplices ...
5 days ago · Claude Lanzmann’s film Shoah is famous for its duration (nine and a half hours), its uncompromising approach (eschewing archive footage) and for the lengthy process of its creation (1974–85). About...
Jun 24, 2024 · Through a whole series of often hilarious scenes, Claude Lanzmann shows that in the astonished and sometimes dazzled eyes of the Jews of the diaspora, the normality of a “State like any other” is abnormality itself.
5 days ago · Certainly, there is a critical accord that the Holocaust exceeds the genericising tendencies of Hollywood. This is why Steven Spielberg’s melodramatic Schindler’s List is often compared unfavourably with Claude Lanzmann’s gruelling, genre-defying assemblage of testimonials in Shoah (Citation 1985).
Jul 1, 2024 · Director Jake Paltrow talks 'June Zero', his unusual take on early 1960s Israel and the final days of Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann.
6 days ago · Tom Shoval and Jake Paltrow talk about developing the foundation for the screenplay, maintaining empathy across story transitions, Jake’s approach as a director, his dedication to working with film, and so much more. The 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, a principal architect of the Holocaust, is revisited in a gripping and surprising new vision ...
