Jonathan Glazer rocks Cannes with a chilling Holocaust drama from a different perspective
1 year, 10 months ago

Jonathan Glazer rocks Cannes with a chilling Holocaust drama from a different perspective

Associated Press  

CANNES, France — Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest,” a chilling Auschwitz-set drama shot through “a 21st century lens,” has delivered the Cannes Film Festival’s first critical sensation by approaching the Holocaust from an unlikely perspective. “The Zone of Interest,” loosely based on a Martin Amis novel, rigorously follows the family’s daily lives while atrocity thrums next door. “The Zone of Interest,” Glazer’s first film since 2013’s grimly elegant science fiction “Under the Skin,” proceeds largely without story in almost documentary fashion. A trip to Auschwitz, in which Glazer visited Bischoff’s home, inspired him to make “The Zone of Interest,” which A24 will release in theaters at a not-yet-announced date.

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Ken Loach backs Jonathan Glazer for ‘very brave’ Zone of Interest Oscar acceptance speech on Israel’s war on Gaza
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Ken Loach backs Jonathan Glazer for ‘very brave’ Zone of Interest Oscar acceptance speech on Israel’s war on Gaza

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Ken Loach has called Jonathan Glazer “very brave” for his controversial …

Oscars 2024: ‘The Zone of Interest’ producer “fundamentally disagrees” with Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar speech
1 year ago

Oscars 2024: ‘The Zone of Interest’ producer “fundamentally disagrees” with Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar speech

The Hindu  

Jonathan Glazer’s seering Holocaust film, The Zone of Interest won two Academy Awards at the Oscars 2024. Whether the victims of October the 7th in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza, all the victims of this dehumanization, how do we resist?” According to reports from Variety, Glazer’s words incited significant backlash, particularly within the Jewish community, with Holocaust survivors …

Hearing the Holocaust in ‘The Zone of Interest’
1 year ago

Hearing the Holocaust in ‘The Zone of Interest’

Live Mint  

“Did you hear that?” Nazi commandant Rudolf Höss asks a subordinate in German. It’s an example of what makes Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone Of Interest a uniquely devastating Holocaust film. The first challenge thrown at the viewer is one of sound: a black, empty screen following the film’s title. The home of the Höss family—Rudolf, his wife Hedwig and their …

‘The Zone of Interest’ director condemns war in Gaza as he accepts Oscar for best international film
1 year ago

‘The Zone of Interest’ director condemns war in Gaza as he accepts Oscar for best international film

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — The harrowing Holocaust drama “ The Zone of Interest,” which explores questions of complicity while depicting the mundane lives of a Nazi family in their home adjacent to the Auschwitz death camp, won the Academy Award for best international film. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including best sound, which it won; best director, which …

Oscar-nominated film The Zone of Interest stars Sandra Hüller as the 'Queen of Auschwitz' in icy cold look at the holocaust
1 year, 1 month ago

Oscar-nominated film The Zone of Interest stars Sandra Hüller as the 'Queen of Auschwitz' in icy cold look at the holocaust

ABC  

The reeds by the river sway and shiver. A holocaust film implies a certain sentimentality — the mawkish stylings of Schindler's List, or the rapture and devastation of Life is Beautiful — which is entirely absent in The Zone of Interest. Christian Friedel plays Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss, a real-life German SS officer and commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. …

The Zone of Interest review: A hellish, daring spin on more traditional Holocaust movies
1 year, 1 month ago

The Zone of Interest review: A hellish, daring spin on more traditional Holocaust movies

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Taking loose inspiration from a 2014 novel by the late Martin …

The Zone of Interest stars on the making of a radical Holocaust film
1 year, 1 month ago

The Zone of Interest stars on the making of a radical Holocaust film

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “I don’t think so much about Jonathan as an Englishman,” says Hüller, who first came …

How The Zone of Interest’s Jonathan Glazer became Britain’s most mysterious filmmaker: ‘He always takes things to the edge of beyond’
1 year, 1 month ago

How The Zone of Interest’s Jonathan Glazer became Britain’s most mysterious filmmaker: ‘He always takes things to the edge of beyond’

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Probably because there’s not too many Johnnys about.” Johnny, John, or …

The Zone of Interest was Martin Amis’s best novel of the 21st century
1 year, 2 months ago

The Zone of Interest was Martin Amis’s best novel of the 21st century

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “We wanted to capture the contrast,” says Glazer, “between …

"There will always be Holocaust deniers": How "Zone of Interest" reveals unsettling truths about us
1 year, 2 months ago

"There will always be Holocaust deniers": How "Zone of Interest" reveals unsettling truths about us

Salon  

“The Zone of Interest,” based on the late Martin Amis’ novel, is a mesmerizing cinematic experience. Johnnie Burn is the film’s sound designer and just received an Oscar nomination for his work on “The Zone of Interest.” He explains, “ the guy who is in charge of the entire process of how the sound is captured for the movie, and …

How should cinema tackle the horror of the Holocaust?
1 year, 2 months ago

How should cinema tackle the horror of the Holocaust?

Hindustan Times  

A baby is crying, but whose: the one in the nursery or someone else’s child, beyond the garden wall topped with barbed wire? In “The Zone of Interest”, an ambitious new film by Jonathan Glazer, the nursery and the dog belong to Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz. Every director who grapples with the Holocaust—from Mr Glazer to Steven Spielberg, …

‘These people absolutely could be us’: Jonathan Glazer on his film about the mastermind of Auschwitz
1 year, 2 months ago

‘These people absolutely could be us’: Jonathan Glazer on his film about the mastermind of Auschwitz

The Telegraph  

At a small north London cinema in the spring of 2014, Jonathan Glazer’s family and friends filed into the auditorium to watch their boy’s latest film. As the credits rolled, 108 minutes later, just after Johansson’s alien temptress had been burnt alive in a forest by her would-be rapist, Glazer’s family filed back out to meet the director in the …

‘The Zone of Interest’ took a decade of work. Its director will never be the same
1 year, 2 months ago

‘The Zone of Interest’ took a decade of work. Its director will never be the same

LA Times  

To hear him describe it, eyes lighting up and arms blocking out the imaginary space, British filmmaker Jonathan Glazer has a happy place, his small post-production studio in London’s Camden. “And I think the fact that we are in the space together is how we get to where we get, because we are all in conversation with each other and …

The Zone of Interest: A Holocaust movie with a message for our moment.
1 year, 3 months ago

The Zone of Interest: A Holocaust movie with a message for our moment.

Slate  

Some movies start by telling you how to watch them. In the year of Schindler’s List, Jean-Luc Godard turned down an award from the New York Film Critics Circle on the grounds that he had failed as a filmmaker, offering as proof his inability to “prevent M. Spielberg from rebuilding Auschwitz.” The impulse to add reenactment to the heap of …

Movie Review: In harrowing ‘Zone of Interest,’ the Holocaust’s evils are cloaked in mundanities
1 year, 3 months ago

Movie Review: In harrowing ‘Zone of Interest,’ the Holocaust’s evils are cloaked in mundanities

Associated Press  

It’s just a woman trying on a fur coat alone in her room, and sampling a lipstick. And it’s their very mundanity that makes them evil — the “banality of evil,” to use Hannah Arendt’s well-known phrase. In his meticulous and harrowing film “The Zone of Interest,” writer-director Jonathan Glazer has found a way to convey evil without ever depicting …

Movie Review: In harrowing ‘Zone of Interest,’ the Holocaust's evils are cloaked in mundanities
1 year, 3 months ago

Movie Review: In harrowing ‘Zone of Interest,’ the Holocaust's evils are cloaked in mundanities

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. And it's their very mundanity that makes them evil …

Review: ‘The Zone of Interest,’ a masterpiece set next door to Auschwitz, gets under the skin
1 year, 3 months ago

Review: ‘The Zone of Interest,’ a masterpiece set next door to Auschwitz, gets under the skin

LA Times  

What does a Nazi do on his day off? Christian Friedel in the movie “The Zone of Interest.” By this point, your mind may have already summoned the words “the banality of evil,” the immortal phrase that Hannah Arendt coined in the 1960s when writing about Adolf Eichmann, one of Höss’ Third Reich associates. The expression was much bandied about …

Cannes favourite The Zone of Interest director says it is not a museum piece
1 year, 10 months ago

Cannes favourite The Zone of Interest director says it is not a museum piece

Hindustan Times  

Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest at the ongoing Cannes Film Festival's 76th edition has turned out to be an early favourite. Glazer, who also wrote The Zone of Interest, contended: “You never really know why you tackle any subject. Just show these people as people and not as monsters was a very important thing to do because the great …

The Zone of Interest review from Cannes: Five stars for Jonathan Glazer's Holocaust 'masterpiece'
1 year, 10 months ago

The Zone of Interest review from Cannes: Five stars for Jonathan Glazer's Holocaust 'masterpiece'

BBC  

The Zone of Interest review from Cannes: Five stars for Jonathan Glazer's Holocaust 'masterpiece' A24 Under the Skin and Sexy Beast director Jonathan Glazer has made "a blood-freezing treatise on the banality of evil", writes Nicholas Barber – and it's proved a hit at Cannes, where it received a six-minute standing ovation. The women's quiet, middle-class chit-chat could hardly be …

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