The Academy’s tendency to award trophies to Holocaust movies has long been whispered about — and even occasionally joked about by cheeky comedians. In 2009, shortly after Kate Winslet won a Golden ...
Decades before he died, so that he would not die there, Steven Kende fled a concentration camp where one of his jobs was “picking up pieces of people.” He hid in bushes from his German guards and ...
A tour that includes cousins Benji (Kieran Culkin, left) and David (Jesse Eisenberg, third from left) passes the site of a concentration camp in Eisenberg's film "A Real Pain." (Searchlight Pictures) ...
He Zoomed in for the premiere of his new film, which embeds issues of trauma and identity in an odd-couple buddy comedy. By Steven Zeitchik Senior Editor, Technology and Politics If humanity were to ...
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On Wednesday, I became the first member of the public to watch something countless cinephiles have waited decades to see: Jerry Lewis’s footage of himself playing a clown in the Holocaust. Donated to ...
More than five decades ago, comedian Jerry Lewis directed and starred in The Day the Clown Cried, a film about a German circus clown who is promised freedom if he leads Jewish children to their deaths ...
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This is the second part of a three-part series about how the Holocaust has been depicted in cinema. You can read part one, about witness narratives, here. Most testimonial Holocaust films can be ...
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