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Hearing the Holocaust in ‘The Zone of Interest’
9 months, 1 week 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 …

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‘The Zone of Interest’ director condemns war in Gaza as he accepts Oscar for best international film
9 months, 1 week 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 …

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'The Zone of Interest' wins Oscar award for best international film
9 months, 1 week ago

'The Zone of Interest' wins Oscar award for best international film

New Indian Express  

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. “Our film shows where dehumanization leads, at its worst,” writer-director Jonathan Glazer said. But though it escapes our …

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In The Zone Of Interest, you don't see the horrors of the Holocaust — you hear them
9 months, 2 weeks ago

In The Zone Of Interest, you don't see the horrors of the Holocaust — you hear them

ABC  

If you watched the Best Picture-nominated film The Zone Of Interest on mute, you could be forgiven for thinking that it's a simple period family drama. The father is Rudolf Höss, a real-life Nazi commander, his wife Hedwig gleefully accepts the title Queen of Auschwitz in the film, and the lively garden the children play in shares a wall with …

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Anatomy of a Scene - The New York Times
10 months ago

Anatomy of a Scene - The New York Times

New York Times  

“Hello, my name is Jonathan Glazer, and I’m the writer and director of the ‘Zone of Interest.’ So we open the sequence on a prisoner gardener, one of whose duties is to clean Rudolf Höss, the commandant’s boots. So everything you’re going to see in this scene was shot simultaneously with 10 cameras. I’m following her in this sequence rather …

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The Zone of Interest: How the most horrifying sounds in film history were created
10 months, 1 week ago

The Zone of Interest: How the most horrifying sounds in film history were created

BBC  

The Zone of Interest: How the most horrifying sounds in film history were created A24 The Holocaust drama is chilling audiences – because of what they hear, not see. – Johnnie Burn The film's score was composed by Mica Levi – also responsible for Glazer's last film, Under the Skin – but is sparingly used; rather, it's the non-musical sound …

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‘The Zone of Interest’ took a decade of work. Its director will never be the same
11 months, 1 week 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 …

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

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

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

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The 10 Best Movies of 2023
1 year ago

The 10 Best Movies of 2023

Slate  

Movies were big in 2023, in every sense. Barbie By the laws of box-office karma, every Top 10 list that includes Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer should also include Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, and vice versa. Barbie isn’t even my favorite Greta Gerwig movie—that would be Little Women—but it’s nothing if not a leveling-up for this wildly gifted filmmaker still near the beginning …

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Christian Friedel taps into the unremarkable monster at the heart of ‘Zone of Interest’
1 year ago

Christian Friedel taps into the unremarkable monster at the heart of ‘Zone of Interest’

LA Times  

When Christian Friedel was preparing to play Rudolf Höss, the real-life Nazi commandant at Auschwitz who’s the alarmingly opaque protagonist of “The Zone of Interest,” he discovered an audio recording of Höss from the Nuremberg trials. But what made “The Zone of Interest” writer-director Jonathan Glazer, who adapted Martin Amis’ novel, think Friedel would be right for Höss? “There was …

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Cannes movies Zone of Interest and Occupied City find new ways to depict the Holocaust.
54 years, 11 months ago

Cannes movies Zone of Interest and Occupied City find new ways to depict the Holocaust.

Slate  

The most chilling moment in Claude Lanzmann’s nine-hour Holocaust documentary Shoah is a slow tracking shot approaching the gates of Auschwitz, moving toward the ruins of the death camp with the ineluctable steadiness of a Nazi transport. Because most contemporary images of the death camps had been produced as Nazi propaganda, Lanzmann chose to situate his movie entirely in the …

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With two essential films, Cannes finds haunting new prisms on the Holocaust
1 year, 7 months ago

With two essential films, Cannes finds haunting new prisms on the Holocaust

LA Times  

Even before it entered its first weekend, the 76th Cannes Film Festival had claimed its first critical triumph and competition standout with “The Zone of Interest.” An implacably chilling, entirely mesmerizing portrait of a family living in the shadow of the inferno, the movie was greeted at its Friday night gala premiere with rave reviews, crass Academy Awards speculation and …

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