When making Oscar predictions, I’ve learned to never underestimate the Holocaust movie. When in doubt with those pesky documentary short subjects, pick the one about the Holocaust. It sounds crass, and it’s an eye-rolling industry truism, but if you chose “The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life” in 2014, you were right. Out of seven nominated Holocaust feature documentaries, six won the Oscar.
The Holocaust is a heart-rending and complicated subject. There have been many other genocides in history, of course; Oscar-winner “The Killing Fields” addressed Cambodia, and other films have examined Armenia, Rwanda, Indonesia, and Bosnia. Still, that’s nothing compared to the hundreds of movies that have addressed how Adolf Hitler and his Nazis exterminated 6 million Jews during World War II.
This year is no exception. Well-intentioned court procedural “Denial” (Bleecker Street), starring Rachel Weisz as an American academic on trial in Britain for defaming...
The Holocaust is a heart-rending and complicated subject. There have been many other genocides in history, of course; Oscar-winner “The Killing Fields” addressed Cambodia, and other films have examined Armenia, Rwanda, Indonesia, and Bosnia. Still, that’s nothing compared to the hundreds of movies that have addressed how Adolf Hitler and his Nazis exterminated 6 million Jews during World War II.
This year is no exception. Well-intentioned court procedural “Denial” (Bleecker Street), starring Rachel Weisz as an American academic on trial in Britain for defaming...
- 9/30/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
When making Oscar predictions, I’ve learned to never underestimate the Holocaust movie. When in doubt with those pesky documentary short subjects, pick the one about the Holocaust. It sounds crass, and it’s an eye-rolling industry truism, but if you chose “The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life” in 2014, you were right. Out of seven nominated Holocaust feature documentaries, six won the Oscar.
The Holocaust is a heart-rending and complicated subject. There have been many other genocides in history, of course; Oscar-winner “The Killing Fields” addressed Cambodia, and other films have examined Armenia, Rwanda, Indonesia, and Bosnia. Still, that’s nothing compared to the hundreds of movies that have addressed how Adolf Hitler and his Nazis exterminated 6 million Jews during World War II.
This year is no exception. Well-intentioned court procedural “Denial” (Bleecker Street), starring Rachel Weisz as an American academic on trial in Britain for defaming...
The Holocaust is a heart-rending and complicated subject. There have been many other genocides in history, of course; Oscar-winner “The Killing Fields” addressed Cambodia, and other films have examined Armenia, Rwanda, Indonesia, and Bosnia. Still, that’s nothing compared to the hundreds of movies that have addressed how Adolf Hitler and his Nazis exterminated 6 million Jews during World War II.
This year is no exception. Well-intentioned court procedural “Denial” (Bleecker Street), starring Rachel Weisz as an American academic on trial in Britain for defaming...
- 9/30/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Ken Burns's The Address (PBS, 9 p.m. tonight) is just unusual enough that I wish it were better, but it's still so unusual — peculiar, even — that I'm recommending it. The advertising imagery suggests it's a film about the meaning of the Gettysburg Address, a 272-word passage in American politics that's arguably the piece of writing that most defines the U.S. Civil War. This is a subject tailor-made for Burns, who broke through to national prominence with his PBS miniseries The Civil War and went on to become public TV's virtual Smithsonian institution, curating our historical memory for us, with and without fiddle music. The Address, however, features none of the oft-parodied Burns storytelling techniques. It's really a documentary about the Greenwood School in Putney, Vermont, which houses 50 boys ages 11 to 17 who have various learning disabilities, including dyslexia, dysgraphia, executive function, and Adhd. With help from teachers, administrators,...
- 4/15/2014
- by Matt Zoller Seitz
- Vulture
Last November was the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, a brief but impactful speech that has gone down in history as one of our nation’s greatest. Perhaps befitting the brilliant conciseness of that address, filmmaker Ken Burns looks at the speech in one of his shortest projects, the 90-minute film The Address. While it is nowhere near as sprawling as Burns’ other works, like The Civil War or Baseball, it — as the original address did — delivers an effective message in its brief time. The Address differs from most of Burns’ other projects … Continue reading →
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- 4/15/2014
- by Jeff Pfeiffer
- ChannelGuideMag
News and notes from all over the TV world:
- The cast of "The Walking Dead" will make its first joint late-night appearance on "Conan" Feb. 6, three days before "Twd" returns to AMC. Andrew Lincoln, Lauren Cohan, Norman Reedus, Danai Gurira, Steven Yeun and Melissa McBride will all join Conan O'Brien for what TBS is calling an "exclusive" appearance.
- Lifetime's adaptation of "Flowers in the Attic" scored big ratings Saturday night (Jan. 18), which bodes well for the already-in-development sequel "Petals on the Wind." The movie based on V.C. Andrews' novel delivered 6.1 million viewers, the most for an original movie on ad-supported cable since November 2012.
- "Battlestar Galactica" and "Dollhouse" alum Tahmoh Penikett is playing a pivotal role in "Criminal Minds'" 200th episode. It's been revealed that his previously teased role will resolve some of the questions surrounding Jj's (A.J. Cook) time away from the Bau. Penikett's Michael Hastings...
- The cast of "The Walking Dead" will make its first joint late-night appearance on "Conan" Feb. 6, three days before "Twd" returns to AMC. Andrew Lincoln, Lauren Cohan, Norman Reedus, Danai Gurira, Steven Yeun and Melissa McBride will all join Conan O'Brien for what TBS is calling an "exclusive" appearance.
- Lifetime's adaptation of "Flowers in the Attic" scored big ratings Saturday night (Jan. 18), which bodes well for the already-in-development sequel "Petals on the Wind." The movie based on V.C. Andrews' novel delivered 6.1 million viewers, the most for an original movie on ad-supported cable since November 2012.
- "Battlestar Galactica" and "Dollhouse" alum Tahmoh Penikett is playing a pivotal role in "Criminal Minds'" 200th episode. It's been revealed that his previously teased role will resolve some of the questions surrounding Jj's (A.J. Cook) time away from the Bau. Penikett's Michael Hastings...
- 1/21/2014
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
“I’m a pig in shit,” Ken Burns said of his quantity of documentary films in the pipeline. First up: The Address is extremely short by Burns’ standards – under two hours long. It follows a school in Vermont that has students each year memorize the Gettysburg Address, delivered by President Lincoln on November 19, 1863 at the dedication of a cemetery on the site of the bloodiest battle ever fought on U.S. soil. It was, Burns noted, not universally embraced at the time – a Chicago newspaper’s review said, “The cheek of every American must tingle with shame as he reads the silly, flat, dishwatery utterances of the man who has to be pointed out to intelligent foreigners as the President of the United States.” The Address airs April 15 at 9 Pm on PBS. This fall, PBS will air the 14-hour The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, about Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
- 1/21/2014
- by LISA DE MORAES, TV Columnist
- Deadline TV
The already prolific Ken Burns, whose documentaries for PBS have spanned everything from The Civil War to Baseball to The Central Park Five, has 14 films in the pipeline for the public broadcaster. And if you think that sounds like a lot -- his upcoming documentary about Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt is 14 hours long -- Burns told reporters gathered for the Television Critics Association winter press tour Monday that he has 100 ideas for new projects. "If I were given 1,000 years I would not run out of topics in American history," said Burns, whose next documentary, The Address, which
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- 1/21/2014
- by Marisa Guthrie
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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