Movies Monday: Shoah

Click Here to Read: Claude Lanzmann: the man who stood witness for the world: He lived a remarkable life: a French resistance fighter, a friend of Jean-Paul Sartre and lover of Simone de Beauvoir. Yet he is best known for his epic film, Shoah, the definitive oral record of those who survived the Holocaust. Now, aged 87, he tells his own extraordinary story by Claude Lanzmann on the Guardian website on March 3, 2012.

Click Here to Read: Shoah (film) on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read: Review of Shoah by Roger Ebert on the RogerEbert.com website on December 29, 2010.

Click Here to Read: The day Israel saw Shoah: On a June day in 1986, an audience gathered in Jerusalem for the country’s first screening of Claude Lanzmann’s epic Holocaust documentary. The story of that day, never before told, is the story of how the Shoah continues to reverberate through Israeli life by Jonathan Freedland on the Guardian website on December 10, 2015.

Click Here to Read: An Epic Film about the Greatest Evil of Modern Timesby Richard Bernstein in The New York TImes on October 20, 1985.

Click Here to Read: What Is Shoah? by Eric Hynes in the Village Voice on December 8, 2010.

Click Here to Read: Shoah: Power and pain of ‘Shoah’ memories: Real people tell true stories of the Holocaust By Ty Burr in the Boston Globe on January 21, 2011.

Click Here to Read: Shoah: movie review: Claude Lanzmann’s Holocaust documentary ‘Shoah’ ties together nine hours of oral history to haunting effect.By Peter Rainer in the Christian Science Monitor on Janaury 7, 2011.