Claude Lanzmann

Claude Lanzmann's Memoir - 'The Patagonian Hare'

Michael Roth | Posted 04.30.2012

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Michael Roth

The Patagonian Hare is full of Lanzmann's cloying self-regard, but we accept it for the single reason that he created Shoah, his 1985 documentary about the Nazi war against the Jews, one of the masterworks of cinema.

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Laura Paull

When Is The Past Not The Past? In The Hands Of 'Shoah' Director Claude Lanzmann

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Paull | Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: Shoah, The Patagonian Hare, Holocaust Museum, The Holocaust, Claude Lanzmann, Simone De Beauvoir, Tete-a-Tete Simone De Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, Regina Longo, Documentary Film, Jean-Paul Sartre, French Films, Jewish Community Center San Francisco, Fifty News

The past, the past, le passé. Past perfect, past imperfect, passé composé...The past weighs heavy on 87-year-old Claude Lanzmann, director of the i...

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A Reply -- With Regret -- to Claude Lanzmann

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Nato Libya, Claude Lanzmann, Claude Lanzmann Libya, Bernard Henri Levy, Libya War, World News
Bernard-Henri Lévy

How can a man of his character put on a show of such capriciousness--one day signing a petition calling for France to intervene, and then, just four weeks later, condemning the same intervention and betraying his own signature?

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Director Claude Lanzmann Speaks About the Making of Shoah

Karin Badt | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Claude Lanzmann, Istanbul Film Festival, Simon Srebnik, Shoah, Treblinka, Auschwicz, The Holocaust, Chelmno, Turkish Subtitles, Irina Bokova, Arts News
Karin Badt

"No one survives an extermination camp. These two are miracles. They are ghosts. Notice that they never speak in terms of 'I' but in terms of 'we'. They are spokespeople for the dead. They are martyrs, heroes, saints."

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Cultish Cinema Stalks Manhattan for the Next Month

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Asian, Anthology Film Archives, Claude Lanzmann, Samurai, Paul Schrader, Japanese, Takeshi Miike, Isild Le Besco, Alex Cox, Rutger Hauer, Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center Film Society, New York News
Brad Balfour

This spring is bringing out the weird in a lot of film programmers. Topping the list of strangely eccentric festivals to come is Lincoln Center Film Society's annual Film Comment Selects.

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Larry Rivers After Crossing His Delaware

Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Barbara Probst Solomon

Larry was intellectual, literary, and one of the most brainy artists of his generation, but there was always the feeling in the art world that the more intellectual the artist, the less talented the painter.

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Christmas With Claude Lanzmann's 'Shoah'

Laura Silver | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Claude Lanzmann, Jews on Christmas, Holocaust Film, Janusz Korczak, Christmas in New York, IFC Center, Shoah Film, Religion News
Laura Silver

Before the blizzard hit New York, I had my own watershed moment: Christmas with Shoah, Claude Lanzmann's nine-hour epic, which returned to the big screen on its 25th anniversary.

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