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TRANSIT

December 13, 2020 By Leave a Comment

TRANSIT

Christian Petzold has done something extraordinary with TRANSIT. Using the novel of the same name by Anna Seghers, he has taken the story of a young German fleeing the Nazis during World War II and transmuted it into a universal story of refugees. By removing the specifics and setting it in the first-world present, the… Read More »

Tagged With: book to screen, false identity, Marseille, Nazi, occupied France, refuggee, WWII

NEVER LOOK AWAY – Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Interview

February 21, 2019 By Leave a Comment

NEVER LOOK AWAY – Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Before I started recording my interview with Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck on January 14, 2019, we reminisced about the last time we had met. It was just before his film, THE LIVES OF OTHERS, had beaten Guillermo del Toro’s odd-on favorite for the Best Foreign Language Oscar™, PAN’S… Read More »

Tagged With: art, art and politics, Avant-garde, Caleb Deschanel, cinematography, Exhibition of Degenerate Art, Gerhard Richter, Nazi, Oscar nominee, sound design, Trump, war crimes

ALLIED

November 23, 2016 By 1 Comment

ALLIED

There is an artistic license that we allow films that sweep us along when their emotional resonance is overpowering. Minor plot points that aren’t resolved, or factual errors.  For an example of the latter, one need look no further than the Letters of Transit, desired by so many in CASABLANCA.  No such thing.  Yet it… Read More »

Tagged With: Casablanca, Nazi, romance, spies, World War II

ANTHROPOID

August 10, 2016 By Leave a Comment

ANTHROPOID

ANTHROPOID is divided into two episodes, one more gut-wrenching than the last as it tells the fact-based story of Czech partisans on what is essentially a suicide mission to assassinate SS General Reinhardt Heydrich, Butcher of Prague, co-planner of the Final Solution, and third in line in the Nazi hierarchy. While the first part is… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, cyanide capsule, Czechoslovakia, Nazi, resistance, torture, World War II

Géza Röhrig and László Nemes on SON OF SAUL

December 18, 2015 By 1 Comment

Géza Röhrig and László Nemes on SON OF SAUL

When I spoke with actor Géza Röhrig and director/co-writer László Nemes on December 12, 2015, I knew it was going to be a serious conversation. I also knew that it was going to be as insightful as their film, SON OF SAUL. We started the interview with my asking why these two would want to immerse themselves… Read More »

Tagged With: 20th-century history, Auschwitz, death camp, European history, FIPRESCI Prize, Holocaust, immersion, Mátyás Erdély, minyan, Nazi, Sonderkommando, sound design, synagogue, World War II

MAX

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

MAX

As an exercise in ethics, people have been known to ponder the morality of going back in time to kill Hitler before he rose to power and committed any crimes against humanity. Some though, to adhere to the polar opposite sort of principles that Hitler espoused, thought a much more effective way to stop him… Read More »

Tagged With: Adolph Hitler, based on a true story, based on real people, cinema, drama, failed artist, film, Germany between world wars, Nazi, rise of Fascism

Adrien Brody is THE PIANIST, Thomas Kretschmann, his Tormentor

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Adrien Brody is THE PIANIST, Thomas Kretschmann, his Tormentor

Meeting Adrien Brody and Thomas Kretschmann is like spending time with two old pals who still enjoy joking around with each other even after a difficult shoot in Europe and a grinding publicity tour schedule to promote their extraordinary film, THE PIANIST. Once we began talking about that film, though, they were deadly serious about the subject matter, the… Read More »

Tagged With: 20th-century history, Academy Award Winner, Adrien Brody, anti-Semitism, based on a true story, drama, film, history, Holocaust, movie, narrative, Nazi, Poland, Thomas Kretschmann, Warsaw Ghetto, Wladyslaw Szpilman, World War II

Noah Taylor and MAX

September 1, 2014 By 1 Comment

Noah Taylor and MAX

It would have been surprising if Noah Taylor hadn’t had a few qualms about playing the Adolph Hitler seen in MAX. Rather than the madman behind the Holocaust, Hitler here is a rather pathetic creature, standing in bread lines along with so much of the rest of the German population after WWI. When we spoke… Read More »

Tagged With: Adolph Hitler, based on a true story, based on real people, cinema, drama, failed artist, film, Germany between world wars, Nazi, Noah Taylor, phone interview, rise of Fascism, theory of acting

Richard Berge & Bonni Cohen Recount THE RAPE OF EUROPA

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Richard Berge & Bonni Cohen Recount THE RAPE OF EUROPA

Richard Berge and Bonni Cohen spent years translating Lynn H. Nicholas’ book of the same name into a documentary. Hence, when I spoke with them on May 14, 2007, they had a wealth of stories to tell about both the subject matter, the Nazi plan to loot Europe of its art treasures and to destroy those… Read More »

Tagged With: 20th-century history, Bonni Cohen, book to movie, cinema, degenerate art, documentary, Europe, film, history, Hitler, Holocaust survivor, looted art, Lynn H. Nicholas, movie, Nazi, Richard Berge, World War II, WWII

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