Dr Alimantado
Balmed
Super 8" - didn't know what to expect and i really enjoyed it. Thought the kids were very good
I hardly think that's appropriate for children!
Edit: sorry my mistake
Super 8" - didn't know what to expect and i really enjoyed it. Thought the kids were very good
It's a feelgood Holocaust movie. Have you seen Life Is Beautiful? That's much worse. It's a lolocaust movie.
watch shoah instead. you might not be able to last the full 9 hours though. i couldn'tVery good, not sure I want to see that then
When Pauline Kael panned the film – ‘Shoah is a long moan. It’s saying: “We’ve always been oppressed, and we’ll be oppressed again”’ – the New Yorker received a flurry of outraged letters. But in the 27 years since its release, the film’s defects have come into sharper focus. There is no discussion of anti-Bolshevism and Social Darwinism, as integral to Nazi ideology as anti-semitism; no account of the invasion of the Soviet Union, which accelerated the process of extermination; and hardly a mention of non-Jewish victims – Gypsies, or the mentally ill or homosexuals. The lack of context was deliberate. Citing a story told by Primo Levi in If This Is a Man, Lanzmann argued that attempting to understand the Holocaust was a form of ‘madness’, ‘an absolute obscenity’. Levi, desperately thirsty, grabbed an icicle and an SS officer took it from him, shouting, ‘Hier ist kein warum’: ‘Here, there is no why.’ But Levi continued to try to understand the horrors he witnessed; he didn’t elevate the SS officer’s command into a taboo. As Dominick LaCapra argued, Lanzmann appeared to be insisting not only on a Bilderverbot, a prohibition on images, but a Warumverbot, a prohibition on explanation itself. In the absence of explanation and historical context, and with non-Jewish victims removed from the picture, Lanzmann’s Holocaust is the story of Jews facing an eternally hostile Gentile world where another genocide is always a latent possibility. ‘The worst crime’ when making a film about the Holocaust, he said, ‘is to consider [it] as past.’
Sarah's Key was a pretty good attempt at a film of the Holocaust . . . but even there, the heroine is both Jewish and an icy blonde - so that goyish audiences might more readily identify with her?
Shoshana in Inglorious Basterds is blonde.
Jeff Robinson said:My other half made me watch the fifth element. One of the worst films I've ever seen.
Jeff Robinson said:Tbh Chris Tucker was so annoying I was willing that fireball to destroy the planet.
My other half made me watch the fifth element. One of the worst films I've ever seen.
I've got a soft spot for the visual style. It's magpied from loads of sci fi films and then given a shot of helium. Also: tricky lol.
Jeff Robinson said:Films that look like they cost a hundred zazillion dollars and say absolutely nothing very loudly piss me off somewhat.