‘Night Will Fall’ Reveals Untold Stories of Liberated WWII Concentration Camps
It was the movie from 1945 that had barely seen the light of day —until last night. Reels upon reels of raw footage recorded by military and newsreel cinematographers after the liberation of Nazi concentration camps by Allied forces are the basis of “Night Will Fall,” a powerful documentary that HBO ran Monday, on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the most notorious of the...
CNN’s ‘Voices of Auschwitz’ Bear Witness to Nazi Death Camp Horrors
They were just children. Four of them, three girls and a boy, growing up more than seven decades ago in upper or middle-class families, surrounded by arts and culture, without many cares in the world. And then, unspeakable horror. Uprooted from their lives and torn from their families, they found themselves at the world’s most notorious death camp, Auschwitz, trapped in the gruesomely efficient Nazi killing apparatus, where 1.1...
All Together Now: It’s a New Family Comedy on HBO
Indie film fans will fondly remember 2011’s “Jeff, Who Lives at Home,” about a 30-year-old slacker played by Jason Segel who lives in his mother’s basement. With millions of people feeling the pinch of a shrunken economy and cutbacks around every corner, the movie resonated on many levels with a core yet small audience. Now its creators, Mark and Jay Duplass have brought that same sort of schlumpy/normcore sensibility to their first...
‘Selma’ Brings MLK and the Civil Rights Movement to Vivid Life
Director Ava DuVernay has said she doesn’t like historical black pictures, and she’s made sure that her “Selma” stands out from the rest in its tone, in its focus and in its style of storytelling. It’s already nabbed four Golden Globe nominations and five Critics’ Choice nods that are a testament to her work. Unbelievably, although the US civil rights movement has been chronicled extensively, this is the first feature-length film with...
Christian Bale as Moses Powers ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’
The opulence, sophistication and the sheer spectacle of ancient Egypt as the backdrop for one of the most resonant tales in the Old Testament is brought to vivid, 3-D life by director Ridley Scott in “Exodus: Gods and Kings.” It’s the story of Moses, played evocatively here by Christian Bale, who was raised into a life of Egyptian privilege and “knighthood” before learning he is actually the son of Hebrew slaves and is exiled to the...
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