In 1979, Claude Lanzmann interviewed Maurice Rossel as part of his Shoah documentary project, who was an official of the International Red Cross during the Second World War. Rossel is known for his visit of the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp and erroneously reporting that the living conditions of the Jewish prisoners there were almost normal and life in the camp […]
Un Vivant Qui Passe (A Visitor from the Living) – ★★★★ Read More »
French documentary film director Claude Lanzman’s last released work before his death in 2018 features previously unreleased interviews with four women from different European countries who survived the holocaust. The accounts were part of the original Shoah project that was released in 1985 but in Lanzman’s opinion seemed to be stories of their own that
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This 2018 documentary film by French director Julien Faraut is set at the final of the 1984 French Open between John McEnroe and Ivan Lendl at a time when McEnroe was the world’s top-ranked player. Vogue called it the best film about tennis that was ever made and it really makes for an very interesting
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The US-Colombian 2004 HBO drama film Maria Full of Grace written and directed by Joshua Marston is an excellent early 2000s naturalistic international arthouse film. It follows Colombian teenage girl Maria Álvarez, who is unsatisfied with her poor life situation and agrees to take on the job of a drug mule. The dramatic structure is
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A list of all the films I’ve seen in cinema in 2021.
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Diese Woche kommt der exzellente Dokumentarfilm Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse von Maria Speth in die Kinos. Der Film handelt von einer sechsten Schulklasse in Mittelhessen und ihrem Lehrer Herr Bachmann, der kurz vor der Rente steht und mit einer ganz besonderen Art unterrichtet. Er nimmt jedes einzelne Kind wahr, fördert gezielt die Kreativität z.B.
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The 2020 psychological drama film The Father written and directed by French director Florian Zeller is now screening in cinemas. The film is about an aging man called Anthony played by Anthony Hopkins (Silence of the Lambs, 1991) who is suffering more and more from dementia and his daughter Anne who tries to find help
Take a first look at the internationally co-produced documentary film The Lost Leonardo directed by Andreas Koefoed. The film follows the mystery behind the Salvator Mundi, an allegedly lost painting done by Leonardo Da Vinci, and the discussions surrounding its authenticity.
The 2018 French documentary film L’Isle au Tresor (Treasure Island) by Guillaume Brac is a beautiful authentic portrait of a water park in Paris. It shows natural everyday moments of the people going and working there and features some great scenes of witnessing the pure joy of youth and childhood, while also giving insight into
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The 1955 artistic French documentary short film Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog) by Alain Resnais is showing on Mubi. The film deals with the holocaust, detailing the progress from the rise of the Nazis, the deportation process, the construction of concentration camps and the life of the prisoners in contrast to the camps staff
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