Story of my life. Instead of ranting against the gutless pissants who don’t have what it takes to make a decent holocaust movie, I should’ve looked around. Store shelves are literally buckling under the fucking things. Well, not quite.
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Ordinary men
Posted in Holocaust movies on September 10, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
An afternoon at the Wannsee
Posted in Holocaust movies on July 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I think it was the cover art that put me off. Kenneth Branagh and Stanley Tucci in Nazi uniform? Sure, another cheapo holocaust melodrama with good actors reduced to growling stereotypes. Not.
We interrupt this pogrom…
Posted in Holocaust movies on July 30, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
What’s the matter with holocaust movies? In the 60 years since Auschwitz, what have we had? A cheesy TV melodrama (Holocaust), a lazy treatise on guilt and responsibility (Sophie’s Choice), and, of course, the definitive Spielberg version of events (Schindler’s List).
