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 …
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 …