The Last of the Unjust
TIFF 2013 | The Last of the Unjust (Claude Lanzmann, France/Austria)—TIFF Docs
By cscope2 | 09/03/2013 | Cinema Scope Online, TIFF 2013
From Cinema Scope #55, Summer 2013 By Christoph Huber Claude Lanzmann’s last reworking of leftover materials from the rich archive accumulated for his groundbreaking epic Shoah (1985), The Last of the Unjust breaks with the rigorous approach its director previously employed to find a just way to talk about the Nazis’ mass murder of the…
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By Christoph Huber | 06/24/2013 | CS55, Festivals, From Cinema Scope Magazine, Spotlight
By Christoph Huber Daily reporters at film festivals dread few demands from otherwise uninterested editors as much as “the festival’s overarching theme”: along with weather reports, these requests crop up with dispiriting regularity. As if a limited selection of movies (circumscribed by all kinds of necessities and strategic manoeuvers, at times more than artistic merit,…
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